::little wiglet::

He moves so fast it's hard to get a good picture of him, no matter how hard I try. Even this one is a little blurry because he was sitting up on a chair in the kitchen and I was concerned he was going to jump off at any moment--which he proceeded to do. He sure is a darling. Sweet faced and sweet natured. A good combination.

::walkin' boy::

So I have a ton of stuff to post about, namely:
Sandy's early walking
Swimming in Phoenix
Slight living room remodel
Max baptism and family visit
Disneyland

Holy cow, that's a lot! But I'm going to do it (hmmm, we'll see I guess.)

So without delay I am going to post a bunch of pictures I took of some of Sandy's early walking. I was waiting to edit these photos, but I'm just biting the bullet and posting them as they are so that they get posted. They're too cute to leave behind.

It took him forever to even think that walking was worth trying, and when he finally started he was pretty good at it. He started with his little push toy. When he got really interested in that I knew he was close.

And it was just SO so SO cute. And I was afraid every second that he was going to fall and smoosh all his teeth on the bricks. He was so unsteady at first! But he's pretty great at it now.

Anyway, on to the photos. Lots and lots of photos.

Monkey shoes help anybody learn to walk.


This was me trying to catch Sand as he walked/fell towards me and take a picture at the same time. He was walking between Max and I and having a blast.

A few days later here he is on Valentine's day looking very Bigfoot-esque.



It's hard work with that tongue sticking out.

This one cracks me up.



He's going for the good stuff cabinet.


He obviously knows he did an excellent job.

And finally, here are a few shots from Max's birthday. Max was playing with his new car tracks and it was very fascinating to the baby.



He really just doesn't look that well balanced, does he? It's a crack up.

The little hands in the air is my favorite.

Concentration.

What a little doll-baby. We're so proud of his walking, although it does make him much less happy to just sit in my lap during church, darn it! Now of course he just wants to walk around and peek and flirt with everybody. Little stinker.

::??::

Can somebody explain to me how it's possible that this baby has not figured out how to crawl yet?

He's obviously quite strong enough! He's still only scooting, and only backwards. I'm pretty sure he's only a hairsbreadth away from a breakthrough though, what do you think?

What a goofball.

::scootin' (backwards)::

(No chubby kids were harmed in the making of this blog post. Maybe they're weren't immediately picked up when they wanted to be, but that's a whole other story.)

My little little guy has started scooting a bit. But not forward, where he'd like to go. Backwards. Always backwards. It's because he's not bothering to do anything with his feet, just his arms. And every time he pushes against the floor with his arms he goes backwards, which really isn't what he means or wants to do.
But I think he's happy to be moving at all.

Yesterday he was hanging out on the floor of our big room--the carpeted floor that I wanted just for things like this--scooting crawling babies.
He's on the floor playing with toys, and suddenly I realize that he's halfway across the room, but still facing me. At that point he was having a good time with it.

And he scooted on. Suddenly he realized that he had scooted rather close to the guitar that was leaning against one of the walls. This was cool and exciting.

And actually rather captivating, really.

This is where things started to fall apart. I think he really really wanted to go for the guitar. So he started to try.








He was extremely annoyed with me for giggling and taking pictures instead of helping him go the right direction. What a mean mom.
I'll have you know though, that as soon as I was done being amused and taking pictures of his frustration, I picked him up and comforted him. I had too, he's too adorable. I can't help it.

And that's the scooting report for today.

::who's ready for breakfast?::

::long overdue::

And I mean this post is LOOOOOOOOONG overdue.

At Christmastime I was surprised by a package from my dear friend Rachel. Rachel is an amazing person that I feel so lucky to know. She was friends with my mom first, technically, but now she's mine too. Thanks to the internet, blogging and such we've been able to keep track of each other's lives and keep in touch.

Anyway, she sent a gift for both Max and Sandy. So so nice, right? But just wait. It's nicer than nice. She made the stuff by hand.

I will show you now. But first I want to say this. There is one benefit for me having taken so long to post this. We get to see baby pictures that are now old. Baby looks so much different now and seeing the old pictures from December and March is fun.

First of all, she knitted a little Yoda guy for Max. I don't have a picture of him handy but he was super cute and Max loved him. He fit perfectly in with the Star Wars sleeping bag Max received from his Grandma.

But Sand was the one who really scored. He got an amazing hat that Rachel knitted.

(He's only about a month and a half in this picture. SO CUTE AND NEW!)

Isn't that a gorgeous and amazing looking hat? Sand wore it all winter and I got so many compliments on it. It's just different and gorgeous.

Awwwwwwww. Back when he used to sleep in his carseat.

AND he got a jacket. He had to grow into it a bit, so in these pictures it's March and he's about four months old.



The jacket matches the hat of course. I think it's amazing. So cute.



Rachel is amazing. She has a great big family with all sorts of cute kids. She takes great care of them. She's creative and fun and crazy and gorgeous and such a loving friend. I just feel so lucky to have her as one of my buddies.

Thanks again for the gifts Rachel, they're such treasures--just like you!

::8 whole months::

Our sweet little Sandy is eight months old today. To sound predictable, I just wonder where the time went. And it also seems like he's been with us forever--how could our family ever have done without him?
We sure do love the little guy.


And I have so many more fun blog posts to come if I can just find some time.

Happy birth anniversary to cute Sand!!

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I love this face:

And this one:

And this one of course:

This one too:

But I think this one has to be my favorite:

At least for today.