Park

Unseasonably warm weather drew us to spend part of our afternoon at the local park a few days ago. It was gorgeous and fun to get out of our hole and bask. What a difference a little sunshine can work!

Tiny brown boots are adorable in my opinion! Unfortunately this family outing was one short but we're looking forward to a point when we will have opportunity to have outings all together. Until then we enjoy what time we do spend together all the more!

Puppy

caught with gorgeous light

Sleeping

squishy face

monkey

With getting good at walking comes new goals and challenges for my boy.

Exploring vertically is the new walking, apparently. Anything he can climb into or onto or through is fair game. This new territory brings a few more bumps and tears with it but over all I am impressed by his ability to try his limits without foolishly exceeding them. Let's hope this early wisdom turns out to be a character trait.

Trains

It amazes me every time he learns new skills so quickly and well through playing. I only showed him once how to put the blocks on the pegs and away he went.

This train is another aesthetically (and sentimentally and educationally) pleasing toy. Not to be a snob but it is definitely preferable in my eyes to the piles of junk so readily available these days...

techy

He likes the computer

and has the typing thing down.

He'd even be great with a touch-screen model.

I guess all that's left is spelling, then.

Ears

"What was that?"

This would likely look better in black and white (love the chair, hate the pattern/colour) and possibly cropped and/or background blurred but I so rarely edit photos I often forget about the possibilities. Or we could just take a second to visualize how cute these pictures could be were they properly edited...

Cowlick

Why isn't my bead-head ever this cute?

Cheeks

Stopping in at a Salvation Army I picked up a nice plain wood toy box today. I couldn't be happier to get toys off the floor and potentially out of sight. I also donated a little pile of his toys (yes, he already has extra) so am happy with the improvement!

Logan's been crazy about hats for a while now and often will walk around wearing one he's found around the house. This one of mine fits his head a bit better than his dad's hats. Don't you just want to squeeze those cheeks!

Blocks

These things are a great idea until stepped upon.

ouch.

2012

Happy New Year! Having various issues with the laptop, I have posted very little in the past while but life has by no means slowed down. I hope to have things to say once I can say it better. For now just another picture to fill the gap...

Wrapped-up

The second greatest gift of all...

merry Christmas

-Nooner

reasonable?

Is it strange that a good part of my incentive to keep a clean house derives from a desire always to have a decent background for my baby pictures? Perhaps I should research depth-of-field settings and save myself all this work...

marker

un-capped? uh-oh!

Snoozing

super boy

Our boy has never appreciated wearing bibs that are anything more than fabric (and he hasn't always enjoyed those for any length of time). He's always tried to get anything that crinkles or is stiff off from around his neck and I can sympathise with him in this remembering my deep-set aversion to turtle-neck shirts and the like. But yesterday he brought to me one of these pristine bibs with a plastic backing and wanted me to put it on him backwards (don't ask me how I knew this was what he wanted, writing it out now I'm wondering that myself). So I did, wondering what would happen. He then walked around (with a bit of a strut, perhaps?) with his cape-bib for the next half-hour at least. I can't think that he has seen anything with a cape that he is attempting to imitate yet so I wonder where this new idea originated.

Our little super hero!

Just don't tell him it looks like a cute peter-pan collar from the front...

Leaves

We've now had our first snow fall of the year. I don't think it's going to stay for long (the weather is supposed to warm quite a bit in the next couple days) but it's fun to see and gives a bit of a practice run for those who make a living getting it out of other peoples' way. Despite the late date, Fall clean-ups have been going strong and just yesterday we took these pictures of the littlest member of our crew enjoying one of the piles of leaves.

One Year

He's grown so much so quickly! It seems like there is no way he could be happier, more loving or smarter than he is. I can't wait to see how he develops this coming year. God bless you, my boy.

Decisions, decisions

A bit over a week ago I stumbled across an interesting opportunity for our family and we've been researching how feasible it would be. Until we know if we're actually pursuing it for some reason I really don't want to let too many people know about the details. I'm not sure from whence the reticence springs but it's possible that it's just too close to my dreams to want to go through the disappointment with others watching. Now before everyone starts guessing amazing and huge steps for us, it really isn't anything that significant (we're not moving to another country or adopting or something) but it would be great if we could swing it. The one problem with not letting anyone know about it is that I would like advice as I research options in this decision and it might be hard to solicit without giving sufficient background. I would like to be able to tell people once I am more sure that the process will go through but I guess I don't want to have to explain how we gave up if it doesn't pan out. Maybe I'll go around asking people a pile of crazy hypothetical questions as a smoke-screen with the one real question buried somewhere in the middle.

What to do, what to do...