Cake!

This weekend was Jason's birthday and Henry got to try cake and whipped cream for the first time.  I think he'd eat it again.

Snow Day

We got snow! (0.5-1")  Most of Austin is shut down because of it and it's COLD!  (Texas-cold, not Wisconsin-cold).  It will finally get to above freezing today for a little while.

Here's what it looked like out the window this morning.

Henry's friend Isaac and his mom are staying with us for a few days, so we had to take the boys out for their first experience with snow.

 Mom!!  It's cold out here!

10 month picture!

Playing in the Park

We've had great weather the last few days (mid-upper 70s) so we've spent our afternoons in the park.  Henry loves watching the big kids running around and even meeting a few other kids his own age.  The wood chips are fun to play with, taste and crawl through.  The rake is more fun to hit against the playground to hear the noise it makes than use in the woodchips.   Here are a few pics of the fun we are having.....

He loves the slide!

10 months old!

Eating Habits: Wants nothing to do with pureed food most days and only wants to feed himself.  Loves Cheerios, Gerber Puffs and black beans.  Drinking out of a sippy cup and using a straw-sippy cup.  Tried egg yolk, frozen mixed veggies, broccoli, brown rice, couscous, meatball, pasta, cranberry sauce, pancakes, peas and carrots.

Motor Skills: Crawling quickly to go longer distances, pulls up on walls, soft furniture or people to standing, cruising along walls and furniture usually with a toy in one hand.  He's started to place the stacking cups within each other and can grab just one lego or stacking cup off the towers we build for him.  He's also learned to use tools.  He can use the mallet to hit on the pound-a-peg, the xylophone or drum.  Walks behind is rolling dinosaur just hasn't learned to steer or that you can't walk through walls.

Sleeping Habits:  Wakes up about once a night, some nights sleeping straight until 6am, but wakes up more often when he was getting his top two teeth in or had a cold.  Goes to bed between 9:30 and 10:30 after he nurses and Jason reads us Lord of the Rings (almost done ~900 pages so far) and gets up between 7 and 8:30am.  Ideally takes two naps a day, morning nap about 2 hours after he gets up, and afternoon nap either in the car while we run errands or 4 hours after our morning nap. 

Speech: Nearly everything is da da da or ba ba ba, but at the end of the month he started with ma ma ma or mum mum mum.

Other:  Mommy-clinginess, shy of strangers, must study people before smiling at them (ongoing)

Walking with the Dino



1/9/11 - 9 months old

When babies attack!



1/15/11 - 9.5 months old