I'm Standing!

This is a picture of William the very first time he pulled up to his feet. I was so excited to be able to get a picture. He keeps trying to do it more and more but there are not many things he feels comfortable pulling up on.

Our First Real Snow

It's been about 2 weeks since the momentous event happened, but I can now testify that we actually do get significant snow falls in NC. It snowed over 3 inches!! Russ got to stay home due to the clinic being shut down for the day, and the new governor declared a state of emergency due to the plethora of accidents on I-95 caused by--the 3 inches of snow of course.

As a side note, the curtains you see in this picture are the ones that took me forever to make and figure out how to hang. The reason it took so long to figure out how to hang them, other than I'm horrible at those kinds of things, is because when Russ had the blinds installed he told the company that did it that he would never have curtains.

William really didn't like the feel of the snow at all. Tooo cold! Especially when Mommy doesn't have any gloves for his little hands.

This is what our yard looked like the very next day.

William Loves Chocolate Chip Cookies

Lost Pictures

These pics are from way back in January but I forgot about them so here they are now.

Oh No It's the Elephant!

I find the following video to be hilarious for several reasons. One of which is that it encapsulates an experience that I'm sure will be played out over and over in the course of our lives as parents. We will think we have discovered the perfect toy, activity, book, event, friend, etc. and eagerly bring William in on the find, only to discover that far from finding it to be a perfect fit our son finds it to be completely the opposite. And, despite seeking to understand, we will be utterly baffled by his insistence to defy all reason, logic, common sense…

We, that is Russ and I, were so excited to get this toy! I had been looking for some fun toys for William and came across this one. It seemed great in that it had a lot of things to hold his interest and it also helped develop some hand eye coordination. I’d been anxiously awaiting this toy since I’d ordered it and it came on the perfect day-Saturday, so even Russ could get in on the fun.




After we took the elephant head off, he really liked. He plays with it quite a lot and he especially likes the balls, so all is not lost.

A Few Firsts

It’s amazing how fast William is growing and changing. Every day it seems like he does something new.

A few new things:
He says “da da” when he sees Russ
He pulls himself up to his knees
He can feed himself a full course meal as long as it consists of bite size pieces he can pick up
He recognizes different foods, especially bread. He absolutely loves bread
He knows that after we pray he gets to eat so when we say "amen" his feet start moving and he just gets super excited. It's funny to see.

In these next pictures he is eating beets, chicken and bread for dinner

Uncle Mike and Aunt Barbara

Mike and Barbara is a couple who have become good friends here in NC. Well, actually, they have "become" good friends to me. They were Russ's good friends for many years. They go to our church. Russ was "Uncle Russ" to their two children and now they are Aunt and Uncle to our little William.

They stopped by and gave William the cutest snowman the other day. He loved it, especially its hat and nose. One of his favorite things is to grab the rim of the hat of the person who is holding him. He'll also grab your nose.