Archive for January, 2009

Month 11

Monday, January 19th, 2009

More mobile -gets into things quicker

Gets down off chairs, couches, bed by turning around and shimmying down
Points to be taken where he wants to go

Knows the word ‘no’ and gets all coy when you ask what he’s just put in his mouth, as if turning his head and smiling will stop us from digging it… »

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Ahhhh!!! Bubbles! Ahhhh!

Friday, January 16th, 2009

So Christina and Katherine are off to California for the month and stopped by to play cards tonight. Before Gus went to bed, Katherine pulled out a little thing of bubbles and blew them at him. To be fair, he was a bit tired, but this is the only picture that Charles could get… »

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Now can I go?

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

So after days and day of being able to knock down blocks, suddenly today Gus can stack them too. Here you see we are far more impressed than he… »

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This weekend

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Lena & Kyle and their two girls (Lila & Lainey) came out to the orchard to go sledding on Saturday. Except for that small matter of the snow melting earlier in the week. No matter. We had a good time drinking coffee and reading the stack of books that Gus doesn’t yet appreciate.

And then… »

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First Hair Cut

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

I didn’t want to do it. There’s something so sweet about just letting his hair be the way it comes naturally. If it were up to me, we wouldn’t have cut it until it was down to the middle of his back and flowing in the wind like a wild child.
But Charles felt differently (of… »

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