Christopher enjoyed his first trip to the zoo last week :0)

Christopher with his cousins.

A few pics of the now 10-month old little guy. Already 10 months! He's doing great. He has several teeth, and more coming very soon.

We're all ready to go to the beach as soon as its warm enough...

He loves it when daddy swings him in the air..,

He loves reading books...

Ready for bed...

Making the food for the week...

and napping after a nice long walk.

Just a few swimming pics from last week with my friend Steph and her son Quinn, who is about 6 months older than Christopher. He always has a great time swimming and kicking away!

He found future uncle Mike's story very interesting...


Here is a better view of his Easter blue velvet outfit.




After his first carousel ride, we just stood holding a pole while it went around but he seemed pretty interested!

9 month photos

Just thought I'd post previews of his 9 month photos, the quality might not be great because they are just proofs. Christopher had his dr. appointment last week and is doing great, he's at 19.5 pounds and his next 3 teeth are ready to come out anytime now!

Happy Easter!

Christopher enjoyed his firs Easter (despite the crushed blue velvet jumper I made him wear) as he ate turkey with the family at the dinner table. Below is a clip of him standing on his own for a bit and cruising the other day, its so great to see him do these things fo the first time.

Hi everyone, not much to update on other than Christopher turned 9 months old last week, and got his first, second and third teeth this week! One on the bottom front and both top ones. Chris and I were on vacation this week and I greatly enjoyed the time home with both of them.

He's a pro at standing up.






One of his favorite toys. He closes the doors one by one, always the red one first!


Too many kisses from Grandma.


Have a great Easter!
Andrea

Since it was a little warmer today we made a quick stop at the park. Christopher sure loves the swing, we're going to get one for the backyard once the weather gets nice :0)

Lots of firsts!

In the past week, Christopher has had a lot of firsts. He started saying his first syllables, which are "ga ga" and "da da," and today was his first swimming trip! I held him tight until he was ready to venture out, and after only 15 minutes or so he was kicking and splashing a lot, he absolutely loved it!

Getting warmed up...

Starting to feel pretty comfortable...



Today with daddy.



Another first that happened this week was pulling himself to a stand. This is one of the first times he did it. After a couple times of doing this, he actually took a couple steps while standing by the couch!

Congratulations, Lorie & Mike!

Yesterday my sister Lorie became engaged as she and Mike were leaving on a cruise! I've really got to be better about keeping my cell phone charged, I missed the call from her and now they're away for the week with no phone. I'm so excited for them, Mike is a great person and our family loves him!

To give you an update, Christopher's cold is just about over now, probably not long until the next one but he's got to build up immunity that way. I'm pretty sure his first tooth is going to appear any time now, he doesn't want to eat solids lately and I felt his gumline and its right about to come through.

This is my friend Suzanne who it was great to see today.





Hanging out with dad.





Have a great week,
Andrea

First cold!

Just a week shy of being 8 months old, the inevitable has happened - Christopher's first cold! He's doing ok, even smiling some!

Just an update that Christopher has had a great first 2 weeks of daycare, it is going great. Here he is taking a nap the other day :0)

Now that the semester has started and I'm working again, Christopher has started his 2 days per week of daycare. Yesterday was his first day, but we've gone a couple of times with him during this past week and spent time there so he'd get used to the surroundings. I was pretty upset before dropping him off, and had been upset all week over it. But when we got there, I set up his cubby, his food and his crib and he seemed really comfortable and curious. He's crawling now (backwards only!) and he didn't stick by me, he took off and watched some of the babies and played with the toys. The women who worked there were really, really nice. Unfortunately they aren't the regular women who work in the infant room, they are just there temporarily, but I liked them a lot and they were attentive to all of the infants. I stuck around for a while but he was quite content, so I went and observed from the hallway window and yep... still content and playing. I left feeling really calm about the whole situation, that its only 2 short days a week and he'll probably benefit from being around other kids. I called after 2 hours and he had eaten all his food and they said he was a little fussy but fine when held. Then I called again later and they said a crying baby had woken him up only 30 minutes into his nap, so he was fussy but they were going to put him back to sleep. I couldn't believe they got him to sleep in the first place, that is amazing that he was so comfortable. I picked him up then and finished his nap at home, but the first day could not have gone better. I hear the first couple weeks are actually harder than the first day because that's when they realize you're going to leave them there, so we'll see how it goes. I feel comfortable with him there though, I know he's safe.

Article on cloth diapers:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1702357,00.html#

Christopher uses bumGenius for the most part, except Chris actually prefers the tri-folds & covers. Cloth diapering is going great, they work better than disposables did for him and we don't need to use any creams - his skin is always perfect. I think they are great!

Experimenting with feeding himself...

I got this idea from another mom on the La Leche League, thought I'd share a summary of the past 6 months.

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Happy New Year!

I hope you have a wonderful 2008. I am really looking forward to this year, having Christopher makes things so wonderful and interesting. He makes us laugh so much, we love to see what he's going to be doing next. I should try to catch it on video when he sticks his foot towards my face so I'll kiss it & wiggle his toes, it is so funny. He laughs and then up his foot goes so I'll do it again. And yesterday Chris noticed that he loves the coffee pot. He looks at it and giggles - he inherited Chris' appreciation for coffee I suppose. Lately he's been really working on crawling. He gets on his hands and knees (and sometimes his hands and feet) and wiggles around, but he ends up gliding backwards instead of forward. It looks like he'll get it any day now. Until then, when he gets me up every few hours I find him in that position practicing. Here is a pic of him working on it!







Andrea