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?

6 months old today!

Lots happenin' 'round here....



First of all, I got engaged. Katie is a great girl, and we have decided on a 20 year long engagement so that we can learn to walk and get jobs and stuff.

I went to a Mariners game. It was so exciting that I had to rest my eyes for moment or two.

I went on my first ferry trip on our vacation to the San Juans. We got to sit in the car for 2 hours while waiting in the ferry line for the boat to San Juan Island. I was still happy here.

Our vacation home had a fancy bathtub that was in the kitchen and sometimes had dishes in it.

When I got home I found out I like kittens. I sometimes like to put my fingers in their ears, and try to put them in my mouth, so mom helped me learn how to pet them and not get scratched.

The Peanuts Gallery

We are still here and doing well. Vacation pictures and updates coming soon!

Happy Father's Day, Dad!!!

I love you Dad!

Love, Peanut

4 Months Checkup

This post is for Aunt Molly....

I just had to post this picture of Peanut. Please note that the swing is not moving at all - the expression plus his crazy sweaty hair gives the picture motion. Peanut is just kicking his legs up and laughing. It looks like it was digitally removed from a Splash Mountain picture. I guess he was just really excited.

4 Month stats- 16 lbs 13 oz 25.5 inches long. And soon to start baby Zantac for the reflux issues. Good times.