Thursday, December 31, 2009

No Harm Done

Our little guy has become ever so mobile. And we all know they put everything in their mouth. Last night he relieved himself on the toilet, lo and behold a hexagon broke loose and floated to the surface. It then dawned on me I had seen this little shape before....the little corks that stick to the inside of the cupboards to keep them from slamming hard. This is to my knowledge the first non-edible object that he has eaten and passed. LOL.

In other news, these are some things he has picked up since Thanksgiving: pulling himself up to stand on furniture and people, crawling, making truck and tractor noises while playing, uses sign language for "milk" (nursing), "more", and "all done". He also rolls a ball back and forth to play with you, he stacks blocks 5 high, he knows his head, tummy, toes, teeth, sometimes ears and nose. He points to what he wants, or wants you to see, and points to many things in books when I ask him 'where's the....?' including tractor, truck, sheep, cow, chicken, pig. He is fascinated with doors, drawers, wheels, switches, faucets, anything mechanical. It seems like everyday now there is something new with him and I love it, it is so much fun. Hope you all have a happy New year!

Monday, December 28, 2009

Busy Fall

This is the beginning of restarting to blog, we have moved, and now are settled. Here are some photos of life this fall. This fall has been busy, in addition to the hard drive frying on our computer, so my posts have been none existant. Sorry about that, I know many of you like to see recent photos of S. Here he is at Colorfest, the balloon festival over the hot springs in September.


He enjoyed the entire experience, the people, the dogs and especially the balloons when they flew right over us.


We had a small patch of grass that was thoroughly taken advantage of this summer and fall, usually when I was hanging clothes on the line or taking them down.



With Aunt Janice at Grandma Florence's house.




Playing the organ with Grandma Judy.





He finally got to meet Grandpa Bill, they had a good time. He also got to hang out with Grandpa and Grandma H, but unfortunately we didn't get pictures on my camera. (Mom: send me some so I can put them up)






Little did we know at the time that his love for tractors would blossom. He is one tractor lovin' kid ! When I ask him 'Where is the tractor?' he unfailingly points to the tractor on the page, or his toy tractor. He is now doing this with trucks, chickens and sheep also.







It's so great to have cousins. L here with S is great at 'trading' toys, if what S had was more desirable.








Snuggled up with Great grandma Florence.









When we got home from Wisconsin, our friend Andy came to visit from Summit. Our house had sold at this point and we were trying to garage sale in frigid weather.










In November we went to ABQ so J could help our friends Lorraine and Andrew reroof one of their houses. Samuel made some new friends including the 20 chickens who reside at the dead end oasis and Drummlin, their black lab.