February-ish

Can you tell me how to get..... how to get to Sesame Street? Here we are on the stoop at the Children's Museum's Body exhibit. The puppets from Sesame Street hosted different exhibits, and Peanut was content to hang out and check out the rest of the kids.

This is Peanut and two good friends, in front of his favorite toy (for now). The kids had a great time playing around and he had fun chasing the older kids!

Just a great shot of him watching something exciting. Stay tuned for the next photos where all of these beautiful curls go away!

Snow much fun!

In January, we took off to the mountains with friends for some snow adventures. Sadly, there hasn't been much snow this winter, so we did the best with what we found.

This move was not approved by mom.

Well hello there, do you come here often?

Peanut had the best time on the sled. Dad pulled him around a bit and he didn't like riding sitting up but on all fours like this!

You say it's my birthday?!

Peanut turned one in January! Wow- what a year. We had a birthday party with friends both young and old. One of us hadn't napped all day and might have been a touch cranky, but I'm not naming names. Okay it was him. He made it to cake time and made a terrific mess.

I love this picture, although you can't read the "birthday boy" tee shirt, but it is so Blue Steel/ male model-rific!

Happy 2010! (3 months late)

As you can see, more frequent blogging was NOT my New Years resolution! Here are a few pictures from the last few months...

Christmas was a big hit this year- Peanut stayed away from the tree until the week before, where he realized it would be fun to play with all of a sudden.

We went on the Santa Train, which took us on a rickety old train to a depot 3 miles away where the little man got to meet Santa for the first time. Unfortunately, he was not awake when our turn came. But Santa got in a little nap too, so he was happy.

This is Peanut leaving cookies for Santa, and cheese for Santa Mouse.

Long time no speak?

Time is flying! I cannot believe how quickly two months has gone by. Our little guy has been growing like a weed and has FINALLY tackled crawling (he was the last little one in the baby group to do it) and started cruising around all over the place. He is now even talking and saying things like: Mo = more, Hi, Bye, Mama, Dada, Andy (his aunt), Yay, and Yeah. He eats solid food- and prefers it off of our plates, not from a jar. We traveled around a bit this fall and have started to get excited about our first Christmas together as a family. It has been a whirlwind year- and it is odd to think back about this time last year when it just seemed as far away as ever. But here we are- with a wonderful little boy who is almost 1 year old!


Here are pics from our recent adventures....

Halloween is a family affair at our house. The lion costume stayed on for about 2 minutes. :)

We made it down to Disneyland for a work conference for Dad. Baby's first Mickey Mouse ears are a must.

Here we are with the result of a tasty pasta feed. He ate so much!

The first two times he met Santa he was asleep. This time he was wide awake, and was not so excited about the experience.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you out there!

Summer is over.

What do you mean summer is over? I am not done having fun outside yet!!

I am not so sure about solid foods yet. Things I like: bananas, apples, prunes, sweet potato, carrots, and sometimes pears. Things I do not like: puffs (banana or sweet potato), peas - and DO NOT put rice cereal into anything you try to give me. I will seal my mouth shut and when you try the dirty trick of waiting until I cry, it is coming back up and you can deal with it.

This is Dad and I going through a sprinkler. I have been having a great time in any form of water and I am looking forward to swim lessons with Dad next month.

I am pretty grown up now. I am starting to use my sign language and can request some milk (formula), and can sometimes attempt to say I am all done. I will say Mama or mamamama when I am looking around for my mom. I love to mimic all sorts of noises, like the house alarm chime, or someone's cough, and today I repeatedly said uh oh when I dropped my pacifier. I have two new teeth, which has been fun for everyone because I am not sleeping through the night anymore. I will sing to myself and love sitting up and getting myself down on the floor to roll. I am not at all interested in crawling. When requested, I grab my mom's face and give her big wet kisses, but not Dad because his beard is scratchy. I do love playing a game with Dad where he growls at me, and I pretend to be scared, but then let him get me and I laugh.

Can't believe it has been 6 months!

So here we are- first family vacation together. We are all pretty happy- and pretty amazed that we have this little guy. Does it get any better than this?