William De Jour

I thought I would post a few of William's favorite things. He is growing and learning so fast. I can hardly believe he will be 10 months old in about a week. He is crawling all over the house. Pulling up on everything. Standing alone for a few seconds and just generally getting into everything. I'm loving that his personality is starting to come out. He loves to play and plays well alone and with friends. He really enjoyed VBS a couple weeks ago where he got to play all morning long and skip his morning nap. He is very curious and loves to explore.

Pictured below William is playing with a few of his favorite things.

His car. Best $4 I ever spent at Walmart.
His remote. Yes, he has his own. This kid will melt down over control of the remote control. "Seriously, God? Did you hard wire this into guys or what?"

His laptop. I think William is going to be a nerd. I say that in the most affectionate way possible. William will throw a fit over a computer and really anything electronic for that matter. It became such an issue every time I got on the computer that we pulled an old, broke-down laptop out of the closet. He loves it. He really likes to "type."

So, on this day William was a little grumpy. He had already had his nap but was just having a hard day. I'm loving my friends having Chinese students and have enjoyed cooking meals for a few of them. In this photo, I was in the process of making a pie and William was "helping" aka "watching and crying." So, I did what every mother does when her child is whiney and just generally disagreeable. I gave him sweets.

I had just whipped up some whipped topping and gave him the beater just to see what he would do with it. This must be something else God hardwires into the brain because William took to the beater like a moth to a bug zapper.

End result? Happy baby and a new favorite thing.

Maiden Blog

Hello fellow bloggers and/or blog perusers! I'm so glad you stopped by and that you've stayed long enough to read this!

The path that lead to this blog has been long. I've started no less than three blogs that have never seen the light of another's computer screen. But, due to the overwhelming cuteness of my only son, and my momma pride regarding same, I have finally, officially kicked off my blog.

If you're reading this you probably already know me, Jeremy and William so I'll dispense with a long history/back story, blah, blah, blah, etc., etc., etc...and get right to the overwhelming cuteness of William (aka Baby of the World) who, by the way, is still sleeping at 7:48 a.m. That. Is. AMAZING! This little dude is usually up with the sun - 6:30 ish every morning regardless of his bedtime.

But I digress...I have to share the most recent funny story about William. I'm going to try to post pictures because, well, pictures really tell the story and we're a visual society and who wants to read all this anyway. I'm new at this blogging thing so if they don't post right please apply copious amounts of grace.

Here's the story on William.

William started crawling backwards in May. I just knew he would crawl forwards just moments or days later. Nope. Not my kid. He crawled backwards for over a month without kicking it into forward gear. Jeremy and I would call him. We'd offer him toys, food, paper (he has an obsession), whatever we thought would get his attention and coerce him into crawling forward to no avail. So, the other day I'm cooking in the kitchen and Wm is sitting just at the edge of the kitchen floor playing. He is straining to reach for the dog food bowl and the dog's water. I just slide them both out of reach and go back to cooking. I look over to check on him and what is he doing? Crawling! Forward! Towards what? Towards the stinkin' dog food bowl! He loves it. And apparently he loves dog food.

Now, I want you to know that these photos are not of the first time he crawled. This is an ongoing issue in our house. This kid just will not leave the dog food alone. If you look at the last picture, in the right hand corner of his mouth, you will see a piece of dog food. You'll all be happy, and perhaps a bit relieved, to know that once I got my photographic evidence I did remove the baby from the dog food and the dog food from the baby. :)

Well, that's enough for now. If you're still with me, I'm impressed. Heck, I might have you over for dinner. I have a few more stories I can share ;)