8 months?!?

Our little Asher is 8 months old already.  I have checked my math more than once because I can't believe it . . . I'm right, it has been 8 months!  He also has 8 teeth.  He weighs 17.4 pounds.  He is finally sitting up on his own now that I've had him practice a little.  He is also up on all fours quite frequently ...maybe next month he'll be crawling?!?  He is eating lots of different foods and loving it, especially when Briella volunteers to feed him!  (She loves to feed him while I'm getting lunch or dinner ready and it is very helpful!!  I get to keep the food moving and eat a hot meal when it's ready rather than feed him while my food gets cold--it is a lovely little arrangement.  There is a little extra face wiping required when Briella is in charge, but I'm OK with that)
Despite having a cold/cough Asher is still a smiley guy!  We are so thankful for a mostly healthy and very happy little boy :)

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Did you notice how I posted a lot in March?  And then I quit posting a lot.  I'm sure blogger is protecting me from all the emails demanding more updates from the Postma's, because I haven't received any of them.

Here are a few random stories that I do not have pictures to illustrate:

Asher is currently working on teeth 7 and 8. I used to tell Briella and Gideon that Asher couldn't eat this or that because babies don't have teeth.  Now they keep reminding me. It's so humbling to be corrected by a 3 and 4 year old. 

We were waiting for the kiddos to finish eating tonight and Stephan was holding Asher.  He lunged for Stephan's glass and knocked it to the floor resulting in a large crash. (thankfully the glass was empty)  Mere moments after putting the broom away I was reaching a little high for a large Tupperware of brown sugar and dropped it all over the hallway floor resulting in the second mess to sweep up.  It was a lovely night over here . . .

I was waiting for Gideon to go to the bathroom before putting him to bed.  He was already sad to leave his cars for the night (he had dozens of them lined up on the train track).  Then he was more upset because he could  not take a car to bed with him and to aggravate the situation I was now requiring him to go to the bathroom.  I looked in the mirror and see him facing down, but with his watery eyes looking right at me and his large lower lip protruding.  I busted up, it just cracked me up how he wanted me to see his sad pathetic look.  When I started laughing, he started crying . . . another joyous moment of mothering this evening.

Last night in church I was smelling something foul so I asked Gideon if he tooted.  He said "no."  Then he turns to me and says, "When we were singing I tooted, that's when I tooted."

 

On the Road

 I'm debating the details to share . . . I'm not sure if more details will make more sense or be more surprising . . . We took a family road trip to Sioux Falls, SD in this sleeper cab pulling 44,000 pounds . . . and then returned 30 hours later.  Crazy, right?  We look relatively happy and clean and decently rested, right? Because the previous picture was taken at the end of our journey!!

 We left Michigan at 2 pm on Tuesday.  The above picture is at about 7:30 Thursday morning while we wait for Stephan to get the paper work taken care of and trailer hooked up.  Briella and Gideon enjoyed watching out the window as we drove across MN, IA, and IL.  We got to see lots of wind turbines and tractor parts being hauled, we even saw a couple of airplanes, one landing while we passed the airport.

 We laid on the bed in the back reading books or just playing for most of the trip.  Briella and Gideon took turns sitting up front, too.

It was fun to stay with my sister and we got to see my parents and other siblings, too.  It was an adventure for sure!!  I'm not sure if we will be able to do it again . . . but it was worth it this time and I'm glad we took the opportunity to go!

Gideon is 3

My Boys

 It has been a few weeks already, but I did take some 6 month shots of Asher and wanted to share a few of his best expressions.  Gideon is turning three soon, so we did a little photo shoot with him outside the other night.  He had some fun faces, too.  Such cute little boys and so much fun to have around.  We are blessed!

Monster Trucks

 A good friend of Stephan's got tickets to the monster truck show and invited Stephan and Gideon along.  Gideon was a little concerned when I told him it might be noisy (he is actually quite sensitive to noise!?!?!), but he ended up having a blast.  He was so excited to tell me how they crashed and smashed cars.  He also said at least three times that he did not like the teeth one . . . must have been on the side of a truck, Stephan wasn't even sure what he was talking about.  Gideon really liked the bus one :)  He told me that at least three times when he got home, too.
Speaking of three . . . Gideon is very excited to turn free on March twenty free.  I should teach him to show three fingers, but he only has singers on his hands and I'm not sure if he can put free singers up, we'll see :)  He often talks about going in the ban to various places and I realize now why he calls the van a ban, he sings the alphabet ABC  (yada yada) T U B W X Y and Z.  He has no V which leads to much confusion.  We'll keep working on the correct pronunciation of Finger, THRee, and Van . . .

  

6 months

Asher is 6 months old already . . . I can't believe it has been six months since we brought home this little bundle of joy!  He is 16.6 pounds, measures 26.5 inches, and his head measures 18.25 inches . . . which puts him between 75-90% in all categories.  He has two teeth, enjoys rice cereal, loves to suck and chew on all things, he is rolling around and moving a lot more, he grabs at toys or hands or faces that are in reach.  He takes a morning nap and an afternoon nap and if either of those don't go so well, he take a short evening nap. He is usually in bed around 8 and sleeps until 8 or 9 am.  (With his recent cold/cough he has been up at night, but that seems to be passing, too)