Anniversary Camping

A much-belated post.  We celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary with a trip to Golden Gate State Park over Labor Day weekend.  We assumed that our camping baby from June would be back -- our baby who loved to be outside, took good naps, and slept like a baby.  We were right in all respects except for the sleeping part.  The first night he probably slept a total of 4 hours, and we probably slept a total of 4 between the two of us.  For some reason, we were convinced the second night would be better, but decided to pack up everything except what we were sleeping in just in case.  He woke up at 8 pm crying, so we took a walk then put him back down.  He woke up again crying at 9:30 and at 10, we called it.  We were pulling out of the campground by 10:30 and I'm pretty sure we heard applause on the way out.  He slept all the way home and slept great once we got here.

Still, we had a blast during the day and he does seem to really enjoy being outside.  And eating rocks, which you have to watch out for (we found out).

Enjoying apples

Loves daddy's hat

Fireside stories

Took a lovely hike

Finally figured out how to nap in the backpack!

Waiting out the rain under the rain fly

Ready for dinner

Loves the fire

9 Months Old

We went on a hike this weekend at Caribou Ranch with my college roommate, Kate, and took the opportunity to snap some 9 month pictures.  We also got a couple at home in the high chair with the light just right.

At 9 months, our boy is just everywhere.  He crawls/army crawls to where ever he wants to go.  He comes when you ask him to, claps when you ask him to (either by saying "clap," "yaaaay," or clapping yourself), shakes his head "no" if you do, chases Nanaa around EVERYWHERE, eats almost anything and everything, babbles a lot, snatches phones, and even pulled up the other day, though he hasn't replicated it yet.  He's into 18 month clothes now and sometimes looks more like a little boy than a baby.  He's sweet as can be and we just can't love him enough.  He doesn't like to cuddle any more but does get very excited when he sees us.

He weighs 20 lb 13 oz and is 28.75 inches long.  That's 70th percentile for both weight and height.  His head was 18.25 inches in circumference, which was 85th percentile.  He has the green light to eat pretty much whatever we do with a few exceptions, which makes us eat healthier. :)

Photo dump

8 months old

We are now 2/3 of the way through our baby's first year and we often look at him and wonder what happened to that tiny baby that we brought home from the hospital.

At eight months, A army crawls or rolls to get to where he wants to go and seems like he's been on the cusp of real crawling for a month at least.  He doesn't like having toys taken away and lets us know vocally about that.  He loves to eat solids and hasn't outright rejected anything, although lentils were not his favorite.  He loves all fruits and tolerates everything else.  He babbles lots of different noises, with babababa, dadadada, and mamama among the favorites.  He is just the best, and we tell him that regularly.

Six Month Pictures

Totally out of order, I know, but during his 6th month we moved, took a two week vacation, and then after a week of unpacking (without internet) I started back at work.  That's my excuse.  Anyway, he wasn't in a super smily mood on his 6 month birthday, which means we took a TON and while there weren't many smiles, I still thought there were a lot of cuties.

Had to include the sneeze.