Monday, October 27, 2008

Belated 9 Month Update




George turned 9 months old last week. He's developing such a funny personality. A few highlights from the month:

- He is now 'fake' laughing. It's really funny - I can hear him chuckling to himself sometimes when I'm out of the room. I'm sure he's just practicing his voice. It kind of sounds like 'heh heh heh.'

- New foods this month are beef, broccoli and brown rice (all pureed, still no teeth!). Cheerios too, and also some pumpkin pie - a fistful of Aunt Rachel's - at Grandpa Gary and Grandma Shelley's.

- He is obsessed with the dogs and they love him too. Especially at mealtime - Sadie camps out under his chair.

- He is officially sleeping in his own bed, almost through the night. Hallelujah! We're ALL sleeping much better.

- Still no crawling, but he can hold himself up on the coffee table and is starting to cruise on the furniture. I'm thinking we're going directly to walking.

- I thought 9 months was a little young for temper tantrums but I was wrong. He's pretty adamant when he wants something.

There's more but it's past my bedtime! He continues to amaze us everyday and we just adore him!

I'll Give You One Guess Who Dressed Me...


DADDY!

Monkey!


Last weekend George and I were lucky enough to go over to Brian's Aunt Diane and Uncle Daryl's to take some pre-Halloween pictures. Uncle Daryl grows some pretty huge pumpkins and George had fun checking them out, and he was very entertained by his second cousins, D.J., Avery and Ethan.

George is too tall for his monkey costume, thus the expanse of white socks...

Minnie - Avery. Turkey (Gobble Gobble) - D.J.
Fireman - Ethan. Monkey - George.

George loved this little push wagon. He stood up like a big boy.

D.J. decided he wanted a ride in the wagon. George was more interested in his curls!

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Destructo


Destructo is George's newest nickname. He has decided its great fun to take apart his alphabet mat and chew any paper he can get his hands on into little drooly bits. If he can do this much damage stationary, he's going to be a little tornado mobile!

Saturday, October 18, 2008

George's Big Weekend

Last weekend was a busy one!


We are lucky enough to live close to a really nice park and late Friday afternoon, George and I took a walk over to get some fresh air. George had a nice little snooze in the stroller, and then we played on the swings awhile. He doesn't look too thrilled...

The next morning, George and I took the Amtrak up to Bellingham. Daddy dropped us off at the station in Edmonds and Gigi picked us up in Bellingham. George did great - he actually napped for about an hour of the trip.

George had a great time at Gigi and Papa's. He hung out in the yard while Gigi was gardening and found something she was doing pretty funny, he couldn't stop laughing

Gigi also gave George an apple from one of their trees. Love the face.

Playtime with Papa!
George got lots of cuddles - it was a fun weekend!

Friday, October 10, 2008

Anticipation...


This kid sure loves his baths!

Splish, splash!

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Self Feeding and Sleeping Through the Night?

George has slept with us since birth. We didn't plan it that way, but between exhaustion and not being able to resist a cuddly baby, it just kind of happened.

Well, last Friday, our cousin-in-law Jeanette dropped off a bunch of hand-me-downs and amongst all the great clothes (thanks Jeanette!) was a book by the 'Sleep Lady'. I've read LOTS of sleep books, and nothing had worked yet. But for some reason the method sounded do-able. Anyway, last Saturday, George slept in his crib by himself for the first time at night. He woke up a few times, but overall, not bad. And then, on Tuesday night, he went to bed fairly easily at 7 pm and didn't make a peep until 6am. I'm still kind of in shock. Now we just have to get him to sleep till 7 am at least!

George is also learning to self feed. He's been making heinous messes out of biter biscuits (they turn into cement when mixed with baby saliva) and is even using his thumb and forefinger (pincer grasp) to pick up little pieces of baby cereal.

This is what he looks like after said biscuits:

Super messy hands!

And here he is with the cereal...not quite making his mouth every time!


Checking out his first pumpkin...



And being a handsome little man!











Baby Feet



For some reason I find baby feet, socks and shoes irresistable.

Here are photos of George modelling some orange crocs. Sixty seconds later they were off and now enjoy a second life as a favorite teether.