This form of entertainment will last quite awhile.
He shakes around so much I couldn't get a focused shot!
Too bad you can't hear the squeals of laughter.
Now he thinks it is super cool as long as Daddy flings him around like he's flying.
Gus thought it was pretty funny to fly.
It was very difficult to get a decent photo while everyone was in crazy motion!
Here is a closer look.
He fell asleep sitting up playing with the phone. It was too cute. He had a terrible snotty cold and sacked out way earlier than normal.
So far he's eaten chicken tetrazini, minus the chicken and spaghetti with meatballs. He got the noodles with a scant amount of sauce because I just don't want red sauce to stain his pretty new high chair yet! He got a half of a meatball too.
Today he had teriyaki chicken cut super small with brown rice and peas that I smashed with a fork. He's a little sick of the flash in his eyes.
Reese couldn't really care less about most of the food. He's just excited to get his sticker bribe for eating. Here he is showing off his Hulk and Spiderman stickers.
Here he is pointing out his name starts with the letter "R"
He is sharing with his teacher who everyone in his family is. Of course he whispers so she has to tell the class. Then we have a show of hands who also has a baby brother, etc etc.
He's pretty proud of his presentation. Now the poster will hang in his class for the rest of the year.
While I haven't posted a meal plan for awhile I have actually been monthly planning for awhile. We have a dry erase calendar on the fridge. On the bottom of each day I jot the meal I intend to make. As the calendar fills up I can swap meals around to different days as needed to work with our schedule. It's been working out pretty well. I like that it kind of reminds me of meals I may forget we want to have and it prevents too much repetition since I can see the whole month at once. I like having it written down where I will see it frequently, but also having flexibility. So this week:
and he has crazy hair.
Gus is crawling all over now. He follows us if we leave the room and if notices something interesting he'll stop to investigate. Reese is very unhappy that Gus must rip down the train tracks every single time he passes by.
"My work here is done. I'm moving on."
I needed to use up the last of my fresh zucchini before it died. I found a couple different things online that looked good. I finally settled on one from the $5 Dinner Mom (her site is stuck in loading so this is just the site, not the recipe) but modified it suit our tastes...and I wasn't necessarily trying to make it for less than $5. It turned out so good we are definitely keeping it in the regular rotation.
And can you see him frantically thumping the side of the tub? He is pulling himself up onto his knees all over the house. He can't quite make it to his feet. He gets to one foot and one knee but when he tries to hoist up he ends up sitting on his bottom.
He came charging into the bathroom and was hoisting himself up the side of the tub before I even realized what happened. He is lightening fast these days. He has zero interest in any of his toys anymore. The same toys that were endlessly fascinating a few short weeks ago when he would sit on a blanket in the living room and play by himself. Now he must be where we are. He follows like a rocket if anyone leaves the room. You would not believe how fast he can get into Reese's room.
Reese was splashing like crazy in the tub tonight.
Gus was all too happy to get drenched.
Gus 15 pounds 6 ounces; 27 1/4 inches (9 months and 5 days)
Reese 15 pounds, 27 inches (9 months and 13 days)
This is another shot of Reese at 9ish months.
This is me, at less than 9 months. At the time I started typing this post this was the only photo I had of me and since it's a cute one I'm going to leave it in. :)
Dylan at 4 months and Travis 2+
When I'm holding the photos in my hands the pumpkin looks similar to Reese and Dylan looks similar to Gus. But on the computer they both look similar to Gus to me.
He also had Gus try them on.
Then they resumed their regularly scheduled play activities: Gus happily complying with whatever Reese thrusts upon him.
Reese is really happy with his Step 1 books. He repeats most of the story since it's broken down into nice easy sentences. I'm really happy I decided to get some of these. I think they'll help with speech development a lot.
Then we headed outside to hunt for treat filled eggs.
These Buzz Lightyear eggs were Reese's favorite.
He was very happy to discover that all the eggs were filled with treats.
Then we headed out to Fujiyama's Japanese Steak House for dinner with Granddad and Gigi (Kyle's parents) and Mimi (my mom) and Uncle Dylan. It was YUMMY! Since both grandmas had to work on Easter Sunday we decided it was easier to just go out to eat and it was a hit. We will definitely go back...next time sans baby.
Gus was pretty interested too. We nearly had a few accidents with the dye filled bowls until he was distracted with an undyed egg.
Reese really liked doing it. It was hard to convince him to leave the egg in the water long enough to pick up some decent color, so we had a couple "pastels." This yellow came out really vibrant though.
Reese was pretty pleased with his egg collection. After two bites he determined they weren't very tasty though. I guess he'll stick to scrambled.
