Swim Video

Here is the swim video. I gave up on trying to get it to download onto the blog, it's too big! It's a bit pixelly and no sound, but it's the best I can figure out to do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iik10K9RE94

As Michael said, we really don't give infants enough credit, it's amazing what they can learn so young. I am so grateful we did this, though it was very hard to watch at times and I constantly worried about ear infections, I am relieved to know he'll be capable of saving himself if he fell into water. We'd do it again in a second....which we will in a couple of years with the next baby.

Standing Up

Will's newest discover!!!

I am in the process of TRYING to get the video to download from his swim lesson, he passed yesterday! Woo Hoo....

Splish! Splash!

I haven't posted more of Will's swim class, too many people told me it was too hard to watch, which I completely understand; watching someone dunk your baby isn't high on my list of fun times, but he's doing well and will be finished this week, so I'll post his final class...probably the hardest one to watch, I'll admit. But you can see what he's learned.

This post, however, is happy times in the pool! We went to Grammy and Grandpa's to swim Sunday and Will had so much fun.

Splashing is of course his favorite thing to do!

Then we hung out in this contraption, great baby invention, I'll say!

He had so much fun kicking and playing with his toys. I see a lot of pool time in our near future!

Memorial Weekend

What a weekend! I said it last summer and after this weekend; it still holds true....this kid is a natural! Will loves the lake!

We hung out on the beach;

Our pal Connor built Will a sand castle;

Will relaxed and chewed on leggos,

Then he cheesed it up with Dad;

Will's buddy Bennett brought over his power tools and oh man;

Will LOVES the tape (Bennett calls it "Tate") measure! Entertainment for a good.....15 minutes!

We hope everyone had a good, safe Memorial Weekend.

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.