Summertime staycation!

We had a bit of a summer staycation after the birthday hub-bub was over. Several days of playing and hanging out at home and around the area. It was wonderful! Shepard had some watermelon last night. Yummo! More watermelon...

I think he likes it. :)

Teasers

Here are some pics of when Gigi and Pops visited a few weeks ago. There will be a video coming soon as well. Shepard LOVES the playground. He's pretty fearless. I have to man the openings, or I think he'd try to jump from 6' up!

Here are some recent pics of Shepard eating chocolate pudding at home. MESSSSSYYYY! Pudding-beard.

He really likes to get stuff like this on his hands and then "wipe" them on his hair. That's my favorite, really. Sigh. Such a little boy!

This Beautiful Mess

Sometimes a picture is really worth a thousand words.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Here's Shepard enjoying his lasagna and green beans recently. We are thankful for our sweet little guy, who really, really loves lasagna. He is very adamant these days about feeding himself with the spoon. Which is great, except most of the time, he turns it upside down before it makes it to his mouth. But he's smart and hungry. I'm guessing he's going to work that out soon. Thank God it was bath night.

This morning

I'm just posting like a wild woman. My little guy looked so much like a BOY this morning in his high chair, covered in blueberry yogurt and bananas. I had to snap a few pictures before we left for school. His little smile melts me like butter. I often sing songs to him while he's eating breakfast...and recently he started clapping for me. Or clapping. Because he knows how. I'm going to pretend it's because he likes it when I sing to him.

First Birthday Party!

Thanks, Nana, for some extra pictures! And thanks to my film-maker friend Michelle for videoing the cake-eating. Here's the first birthday montage.

Walker, eater, dancer

I left Shepard in the care of non-Mommies for the first time this weekend. And what does he decide to do?!?!? WALK. I mean, really take 7-8 steps in a row without falling. Geez. Poor Jerod tried all day to capture the walk on video, to no avail. One of his attempts though ended up being some fun times with Grandma and Gloria Estefan. Yes, you heard me. Gloria Estefan.

I still haven't captured the walk, but you can enjoy the play, the dance and the eating of the swim trunks.


We are also experimenting with table foods. I try something new on him pretty much every day. His favorites right now are broccoli, grilled chicken (!), cheerios, mozzarella, pizza, and pasta with tomato sauce. Tonight we had yellow rice and black beans. I wasn't sure he would eat it at all. And then he started double-fisting it!



In terms of milestones, yesterday (Monday) was his first day in his new pre-toddler class at school. He will learn basic signs, more finger-food-eating and generally get his play on. We even got a certificate of graduation. We will miss Ms. Pebbles, Tasha and Veronica. Ms. Pebbles was with him since he was 10 weeks old. Sigh. Growing up is hard on mommies.