::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.

::why::

Why do they (read Max) insist on sitting so far apart?


It's like the lord & lady of the manor or something.

We love our new rustic looking table supposedly made out of an old door from Mexico. Who knows what it's really made out of, but it fits the house's esthetic nicely--and the shape of the room!

::shopping with sand::

When you go shopping with Sandy, watch out for his mouth. He makes this big enormous round open mouth and then he bites stuff.
Anything I put in the cart he bites. Anything he can get his hand on he bites.
When we were at Trader Joe's and bought the irises I showed you yesterday he tried to bite those. He kept reaching for them and chomping his little mouth open and closed.


And when stuff gets taken away, YIKES.


And it's not just food--don't worry. All these pictures are from today. We went to the grocery store in the morning and then had to run to the craft store in the afternoon. Then Sam's of course.



And you'd better believe that there were 10x more eating occasions than just the ones I happened to capture on my phone before I grabbed the poisonous item out of his mouth.


Wow, yikes.

::::

Happy spring courtesy of our good old Trader Joe's floral department.

And happy spring from a couple of goofy little guys.


It's been really lovely weather here. Sixties and sunny and breezy. It's been nice. The feeling of spring has to be one of the best out there, doesn't it?
I have to post about so much stuff, but I'm just trying to get rolling here again. Tomorrow....

::last year::

In honor of Sandy's 16 mo birthday today here are some photos from last year's today.

Lots of things can change in a year and lots of things stay the same.

It was sunday and Sandy was trying on a really weird hat that I made one of the two or three times I actually sewed something. He looks very gnomish to me.

And really he looks unsuspecting of the hat.
We were still in our rental house.
Last year at this time we still had Kris's dad with us, though he was so sick. It really is crazy how much can change in a year.

After church last year Max went adventuring. Kris hid a geocache out in the yard and sent Max a-geocaching. Something that hasn't changed is the fact that Max loves adventures.


We haven't geocached much in the last year, but we've definitely talked about it a lot. Max loves the memory of it, so I'm sure we'll do more.


To end the day last year, Sandy got his first taste of (real) food. It was pretty early on in his life but we were trying to figure out some way to help him to sleep through the night.
Little did we know that even still today sleeping thourgh the night would only be a once in a while thing. Little stinker. He usually sleeps pretty well, but wakes up at least once--he sleeps the whole night maybe once a week, ok maybe twice if we're lucky!


Aw, he's so little and cute! His eyes look so huge.

Happy month bday little Sandy. We sure do love you. It's been a good year.

::old but yet quite amusing::

I just realized I never posted these photos back in December!

Kris and I got to go out on a date one night. We found a babysitter out here in our neighborhood that's a grandma who loves kids, it's great. Anyway, this was one of her first nights.
When we came home she was knitting in the kitchen. We asked her why she was there instead of in the living room on the couch. Well, she said, Max is in his cabinet.
Cabinet? What?
We went in there and there we found Max, in his cabinet.

We had just finished listening/reading to the first Harry Potter. He found the cupboard under the stairs pretty inspiring I guess. He said he was being Harry.

These pictures are from the next day while we were watching a PBS show.

He used the cabinet for a while and then we never heard a bit about it again. He's a character, isn't he?

::grandma & boys::

Now it feels like forever ago, but just before Kathy left for home after Christmas we took a few pictures of her with the little boys.
And the little boys were even semi cooperative.


The littlest one even likes pictures. I get out the camera and he smiles SO big. Then he looks away of course.

These boys love their Grandma! And at this point she hadn't yet stayed with them alone for a long long weekend. Love was tested and it won out.

Here is a fun little series.


Max looks like his head might be flat.

If Grandma is going to pat Max's head then Sandy is going to too.

And then Sandy gets a head pat.

Inspiring yet another reciprocal head pat.

Awwwwwww.

Cuteness. That's all I can say.

::walking::

Guess who finally decided to walk?
He's been doing it for a couple of weeks now, and besides the bumps on the head and bruises that invariably come with the territory, we're all enjoying his newfound skill. He's really a toddler now!

I have much more to come on this subject!

(And thanks to Kari for the darling sock monkey shoes. Baby shoes are my one weakness.)

::suit::

Kathy got Max a suit for his birthday. It's appropriate since he's so dang old now. He looks old and mature in the suit--deceptively so.

I had a hard time finding a good spot to take a picture of these two for some reason. Some mornings the sun pouring in is just so bright and almost harsh!

I'm definitely not sure that standing them in front of the huge TV and the green on green color scheme was the right idea, but oh well.
You get the picture.
Two matching Hendricks dudes in pinstriped suits.
I was pretty proud to take these two guys to church with me.

Mostly!