Archive for May, 2009

First Face-Plant

Monday, May 18th, 2009

On the way back from Portland on Sunday, we stopped at a campground to let a grumpy Gus stretch his legs.

After an hour of grumbling he was finally happy again.
Then mere moments after this picture was taken, he stepped down off this curb and knocked his head on the cement. He had just navigated it… »

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More signs

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Gus has really started using the signs in the past week or so.
He uses ‘all done’ regularly -without first hitting spoons away or blowing raspberries with his rice cereal.
And this is ‘water’.

This one is ‘help.’ (He used to only do it when he got stuck in the cupboard but today he asked Charles to put… »

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Stroll

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Gus had his chicken pox shot on Thursday afternoon. The waiting room was completely empty but they told us it would take 15 minutes to process our forms so instead of squirming around the bare room of chairs, we decided to take a stroll.
We did a bit of crawling

A bit of walking

(doesn’t he look bigger… »

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Keys

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

In this sequence we see Gus ask for keys, be happy & amazed that he got them and then promptly assume complete ownership:

(and, yes, these are leftover from Sunday -not many interesting photos today with my head in my computer for 6 straight… »

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Actually, this one is more apt

Monday, May 11th, 2009

This was taken during the Mother’s Day photo session yesterday -me suddenly realizing how dirty his ears were getting, him suddenly feeling the need to… »

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