January

I'm playing catch up here. January has proven to be quite the fun month. I'm happy to be back to my life in Buffalo. IVe been keeping busy with card club, book club, play group and, of course, playing with my little angel. Will turned six months old this month and what a month it has been! Since his five month birthday he has learned to sit up, he's started to babble (ba ba), he faught a double ear infection, can roll over on both sides, and... Drumroll... Is really really close to crawling. Part of me is excited about the crawling while another part of me dreads the exhaustion to come. I do enjoy the lack of mobility that Will has had up until now.
The latest news in our family is that Will is headed to a photoshoot with FisherPrice tomorrow. We sure are excited to have some new frontier to explore. Will actually had to get a child's work permit in order to go. I just love getting pictures of my baby taken! Erik is in the throws of his second semester of dental school. Tests are flying at him as fast as the snow is falling here in Buffalo. I'm constantly impressed wth his ability to focus on school and keep plugging along. He's doing great! Well, that's about all for us this month. We're all just living the dream!

All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth

Will's first Christmas turned out to be really fun and special... Just like every Christmas! Ha ha! This one was really special because it was so fun to actually have a tiny baby with me through all of the festivities. Here at home we decorated the house with gingerbread. We made gingerbread Dinos and a very labor intensive ginger house. We didn't end up having any gingerbread cookie cutters (must have been lost in the move) so we had to go with Dinos.
The week before Christmas, Erik was finishing up finals while Will was cutting his first tooth. As good timing would have it, Will got his second tooth the day that we traveled to Oregon for our visit... What a plane ride... Will was such a trooper and Erik and I lived to tell the tale.
Had a lovely trip to Portland and got to do so many fun things. We went to Oaks Park to skate, I had a day out to make cards, we enjoyed quinoa twice, went to a Blazer game, and got to meet Cami and Courtney's boyfriends. What an eventful trip! I would have to say that my favorite part of Christmas at home is being around family. I am so lucky to have family that I love to be around. Living so far away has helped me to realize just how lucky I am in the family and in law department.
I'd say that Christmas was a success this year! I can't wait for next year!

Today's pictures of Will

Here are a few of the latest pics:



Will loves to chew on things... especially Tigger.



He's making lots of cute new sounds and lots of the same cute smiles too.



Here's our little man rockin' our world one grin at a time.

The boy who lived... And slipped on a banana peel

We may have fallen into the trap of most parents in the world. I've been noticing that a lot of the videos that we have of Will may seem boring to anyone but his adoring fans (aka- Erik and me). He doesn't do much in them and often when we are trying to capture a smile or laugh he seems to know and deliberately hold what ever we are looking for inside of him. We think that they are Hollywood quality... but something inside of me tells me that we may have a slight bias. That being said; I'm still putting up a few family videos . He's just too cute to pass up. So here it is:





So, as I finish this post I have a few thoughts. To start, I must say that I find it quite strange to hear my own voice on the recordings. I don't think I really like the sound of it, but Erik tells me that no one does. I grew up with narrated family videos, so that is what comes naturally to me as the videographer. Also, if this actually works and the videos appear on my blog... I will take my place as the tech-savvy one of the family. Sorry Cami. Here goes nothing.

More Will Stories

Well, the kid still spits up. We had our friends Dawn and Caleb come over for Will's first ever play-date and we have another story for the blog now. I was introducing Will to little Caleb. I thought this would be a good idea; why not learn manners early on? I put Will right in front of Caleb when he projectile vomited right in his direction. It landed three inches from the poor boy. I handed Will to Dawn, who still was interested in holding him after his little scene, and no sooner had I cleaned up his spit up mess than I heard a major explosion coming from Will's direction. I turned around to see that Will had had a blow out... a big blow out. I had to change his diaper and his clothes. After that I was putting a new outfit on him when I noticed that it was dirty. Not just dirty but the bad kind of dirty. I could have sworn that went through the laundry! Well, it had. I just let Will hang out in his diaper. I held him and suddenly felt something going through my clothes. Yes, my fears were confirmed as I realized that he had pooped on me as well. All this happened with in one hour. As I told Erik about the story he noted that it must have all happened because Will was nervous for his first play-date. I sure hope that trend doesn't continue.

Will is doing really well. He is smiling and cooing and actually rolled over the other day. We're still waiting for a repeat on that action. I'm headed off to Portland for the week to join my family in a big event. The rumors are true! Nishelle is getting hitched on Saturday! I am so excited for them. I really like Dave and I know they are great for each other. Picture of this big event are coming soon, so stay tuned!

Here are some pics of the boy:


October 1st. I'd say it's time to put on the Halloween outfits.



Will got his shots! He did a great job. Hooray for immunizations!


Look at that neck strength!


A cute little outfit that was so easy to make.


And I just love his swirl cowlick!

Here's the Latest

Well, life in Buffalo continues on. Erik has his first test in Anatomy this Friday and I'm loving life at home with Will. Today my friend Katie came over and was holding him when he spit up all over her multiple times. I was explaining to him that it was not nice to spit up on our friends, and after a beautiful lecture from his mother (I thought I did a nice job lecturing...) he smiled and continued to spit up. Hmmm... We have some work to do on language comprehension.
Here's the latest picture of our bundle of smiles!

Smiles

Will has started smiling!

Short post but I had to state how nice it is to get a smile after all the late nights and sore muscles from holding Will just the way he likes to be held (a constant bounce, please!). Looking at this picture reminds me how much I love my baby! If this picture doesn't do it for ya, you've got to see him in person. You'd fall in love with him every time you looked at him... just like his mommy does every day!