8 months old

8 months old today! She is such a sweet and happy baby. Amari you make me smile everyday, I love you little girl!

Breakfast with Santa

Today was breakfast with Santa. Pantera has always loved Santa. Zeke was happy to see him and gave him a high five, followed by a very formal and random handshake. Amari...well the pictures say it all!

Things have been busy around here, but very good. Pantera is reading like you wouldn't believe. She tells me so much about friends at her school "Nathaniel has a hard time practicing self control" or "Mark put up his middle finger, that's like saying every bad word at the same time...even stupid!"

Zeke thinks he is hilarious, ok he is hilarious. He randomly cracks up at himself, he will just be sitting in the car and start laughing at nothing. He calls hats "Yee-Haa"s and if he is wearing one he is even funnier.

Amari rolled over twice in one day. She had to get shots yesterday, she cried for .5 seconds then the lady looked at her and she smiled so big to get more attention. The lady laughed saying "That is the quickest I have ever seen a kid smile after a shot!"

Now that Thanksgiving is over...

Let me be the first to say...

Do you ever wonder why I never have pictures of all 3 of my kids together? This is why.

Catch up...

My dear sweet little Amari. She isn't rolling over, I think her body is to heavy for her to pull it off on a regular basis. Although last night when she was really, really mad and wanted to nurse all of the sudden she got her body almost all the way over, if I hadn't been next to her she would have! So I guess maybe it's lack of motivation???

Zeke has been so "money" lately. He laughs about everything and tells me "Mama, it money!" We had a cute little girl come over and play a couple days this week. Zeke usually doesn't have time for kids his age, but he thought this little girl was pretty cool. He was dancing in front of her and kept hugging her over and over. The only problem was she didn't want anything to do with him. Payback stinks! He would run over to her and hug her, she would get mad, he would run away then run back and do it again. I told him to stop because he was really making her mad and he says "No mama, I money!" This morning as Pantera got on the bus, Zeke was pretending to cry. He hid his head in the stairs and wept loudly. Love that kid.

This week we had our first ever parent teacher conference! Pantera is doing great in school, they will be putting her in 1st grade reading and math and trying to challenge her more. Her teacher told me "I'm not just saying this, in the 21 years I've been teaching, I have never met a kid like Pantera. Whatever she chooses to do, it's going to be huge!" That's my girl!

Pantera is still obsessed with being an American. She insisted on wearing red, white, and blue to school today. She told me "I've never felt this before, this caring for my country. You know mom, the American flag stands for freedom and you can't take THAT away. I just want to be a veteran so bad!" She has also been coming up with new ways to spell her name because "Everybody knows this name and I want it to be different." I'm sorry I didn't name you something unique...oh wait. She was talking about aliens the other day and told me "Aliens are not born, they are just born like tomatoes."

Monkey toes

My kids have always had the most the most expressive feet. I love to watch their little toes grab thing and move when they are excited. Cute little monkey toes!

Veterans Day

Here is a picture of Pantera deep in thought. She had to write the reasons why she loves her family after she asked if I would "Call the adoption people" again. She threw a fit so I took away her Star Wars paraphernalia. This caused her to wail "I can't survive without it, I'll die, I can't live!" over and over for about an hour. Good times. On a cuter note, she got in the car so excited after school yesterday. "Guess what? Uncle Alex might be at my school tomorrow!" I tell her that he is in Afghanistan and he probably will not be there. She replies "You don't know. My school invited Veterans from the Army. Uncle Alex is in the Army so I am gonna sit by him!" Nothing I could tell her could convince her otherwise, I hope she isn't to crushed when he isn't there.

I love his cheesy little face! The other day I layed Amari down for a nap. Zeke found a blanket that he thought she should have so he brought it to me. When he saw she wasn't in my lap he started to panic "Beebee? Beebee a hoo hoo?" (Baby where are you?). Then he found her and woke her up.

Amari turned 7 months yesterday! She makes this face that cracks me up whenever she gets excited. I was thrilled to catch it on camera!

I guess she was done with her photo shoot!

6

Pantera is 6! She is such a sweet girl. We are so lucky to have you in our family Tera!