Funniest Picture Ever!!!!

"PUT UP YOUR DUKES"

I'm alittle concerned by this; if this is any indication of what's to come between these two cousins, we are in trouble!

But look they can be loving too....

I'm standing....I'm standing

Fun Pictures

We finally got together w/ our good pal Becky to take Will's 9 month pictures, the pictures below are not it, I was just having fun w/ my camera while Becky was taking pictures of our niece Baby Grace and her mom and dad. But here are a few from my camera of us having fun in the garden's.

This picture makes me laugh everytime I look at it, Grace gets her fist balled up and looks like she's about to knock someone out. So, intense this child, let's pray she has her daddy's demeanor and this is just temporary!!!! (sorry Aunt Wendy)

Will got to feed a duck his puffs and yogurt snacks yesterday. Well, dad fed the duck, Will watched. But ducks are one of our (at present) favorite animals. We bath in a duck, mom's phone quacks when dad calls, and grandpa is a great quacker with his mouth. We like bears too, but that's because Will is a bear!

And then after a very very short bit (children and their attention spans), Will decided he wanted his snacks, not give them to the duck, so here he is eating the lid to the container and the duck is on standby in case any fall on the ground.

I'll post Becky's pics when I get them!

First Hair Cut

Bye, Bye curls, hello little boy!

During....not too happy w/ mom!

After, look at this little man!

Picture Face or Poker Face....which ever!!!

"Turn that frown upside down!" Stick a camera in Will's direction and it's a done deal!

On our way to the lake, Mr. Fussy Pants was yelling and whining, but when the camera came out, HELLOOOO, happy boy!

And here we got it our to show our good friend Mr. Bishop how Will puts on his picture face. It's like the camera is a stun gun!!!

Opp, here it is!!!

That's so funny!!!!

This is just a picture of my high chair when I was a baby! Kind of cool to be feeding my son in it too!!!

First Mother's Day

My first Mother's Day with Mom! I took her to Brunch w/ Dad, all the Grandparents & Uncle Corry, Aunt Wendy & Baby Grace. Well, actually, Baby Grace and I took the moms to Brunch. She was in on it too.

Dad talked to me yesterday morning to tell me just how big a day this was, so I really tried to make it special for mom. Dad suggested we get up and make mom breakfast, but when he told mom I was going to get to pick the ingredients, she decided we should just go get her breakfast. So that's how I started her day.

Here we are w/ Aunt Wendy and Baby Grace, we both were really good during Brunch; yesterday afternoon was a different story, but I'll get to that in a minute. Let's continue talking about how good we were. Grace just relaxed and hung out in her Daddy's arms and I jumped from the high chair to Grammy, then mom, then dad, then Grandpa Mike, then....well, you get the jist. I was busy talking to everyone!

Here we are with the Daddy's, we can't leave them out, even though Mom said their day isn't until June something...

After Brunch we went home and I was SUPPOSED to take a nap, but I decided against that and protested it most of the afternoon. Actually I was quite demanding of it ALL afternoon. I really tried to be good all day, just like dad told me too, but I have my limits and I couldn't contain myself any longer, so I pretty much made the afternoon a real nightmare; but I did give mom lots of hugs and slobbery kisses, so surely I made up for all the whining! Mom said even though I was cantankerous yesterday it was a great Mother's Day, so obviously I did something right....

Hope all you Mommy's out there had a great Mother's Day.

9 Month Check Up

Will had his 9 Month Well Visit today and is weighing in at 24.5lbs. and 29in. tall. His ears are still clear which I was concerned about w/ swimming (he wears plugs, but still worried me) and he's got two more teeth coming thru on the top. We got to skip shots this time which was a blessing. All in all, he's doing great!

I took these this morning, he's getting really good at this!

Happy Mother's Day to all you Mommies out there.

Newest Discovery

Will has reached the point where he can pull himself up making it quite a chore to get him to sleep at night. I was complaining to a friend about this new found discovery because he likes to wake up 1 to 2 times a night, stand up, then cry because....well, for whatever reason, but we've had several sleepless nights the past week. She of course thought it was "so precious" when she visualized walking in and seeing him standing up against his crib looking into the room. And she was right, but not at 1:00 and 3:00 in the morning. So, in her honor, I took pictures last night to show her just "how precious" this really is.

These were taken at bedtime, not the middle of the night, so I was a little bit more tolerant, of the cuteness!

He's not quite to the point of standing on his feet, but he's a pro at getting up to his knees.

Will turned 9 months old yesterday and officially started crawling yesterday. He's been army crawling, crawling backwards or whatever means he finds necessary to get where he wants to go, but actually moving all four limbs at the same time in the right direction didn't happen until yesterday morning in the closet on his way to attack dad's boot! And of course we officially enterted the "can't step out of the room" phase, when last night Will decided he wanted to get the barstool and fell over onto the tile w/ his face. Didn't hurt him, just ticked him off. But, it's official, he's mobile!

Play Time

Will went on an exploration of his room yesterday. We normally just play in the living room, but I was putting the bathroom back together after our weekend paint project; so Will played in his room while I worked.

He was being very quiet, so I went in to check on him and he had crawled into his closet and began working on how he wanted it organized. Of course by the time I got the camera, he had given up on his attempt to remove his clothes from the hangers and became mesmerized with the camera.

So, I used that to coax him out of the closet. He then spent the better part of this play time making cheesie grins and trying to get the camera from me.

After a few gazillion pictures, I'd hide the camera and he'd start whining, then I'd pull it back out and he'd start laughing again. This top picture was his reaction everytime I'd hide the camera.

Then once the camera was back out, he was back on his mission to get it. After a few failed attempts, he tried the above tactic. (poor pitiful me)

When that didn't work, he put on his cute face and crawled over some more.

Then finally, after all that work, he got it!

But of course once he succeeded, he wasn't interested for long, so he went back to exploring. I tried to catch him before he moved, but this is all I got, he was doing the splits, w/ both legs straight out. Kids are so limber!

Swimming Lessons

Will is taking infant swim lessons. We started last monday and he goes everyday for 4-6 weeks roughly. These are the swim lessons that teach him how to float on his back in the unlikely event that he fell into water and no one was there. I say unlikely, because he will NEVER be by water unattended, but as any mother or father can say, "you blink and something can happen" and for that, we want to be prepared. The first couple of days were tough, he didn't like it at all and I was at any minute going to jump in and get him out. But day 3 he quit crying and seems to be doing okay. I'm still very anxious while I sit and watch these lessons, but we are around water way too much not to do this.



I shot this yesterday, it's about 2 minutes, but shows how he's doing. He hasn't quite gotten the concept to stop kicking and just float, so when you see her lift him up and down, she's trying to show him that she'll pick him up when he doesn't kick. It's amazing what these babies can learn. I'll post more progress in the coming weeks as we go thru this.