Beach, Park and Park

From 3 parks to the beach we have spent a good amount of time outside this week. Oh and a quick trip to the zoo..

Dinner with the Family

After a long week Evan made it home early to go out to a family dinner. Mexican food was a hit with Miles. He ended up eating a ton of rice. beans and chips. My favorite part was that he was content in his seat the WHOLE TIME!

ROCKS

You love rocks so when we went to a playground in Colorado and they were everywhere you flopped down and "swam" in them. You filled your pockets and went down for a great nap after with rocks still in there.

20 Months

Today you are 20 months old. Only 4 months till you turn 2. Such a shocker to me.

Some of your new things are:

- You HATE HATE HATE bath time. I mean you scream "all done" over and over while you stand in the water and wash you as quick as I can. Let's hope you grow out of this. So far it is 3 weeks strong.

- Words! You have so many it boggles my mind. You put stuff together now like "Coco Food" or "Daddy Shoes" etc. Just this morning I had the shower running and you ran up and said "Daddy, bath... shower?" I was shocked.

- Fingers in the ears. You have started to plug your ears to hear the noise difference. You say all the words you know and laugh at the sounds as they change.

- Choo Choo Trains, Dinos and Buzz are all favorites right now.

- Bedtime is 7:30 and you are sleeping for about 11-13 hours a night. Still on one nap a day that is roughly 2 1/2 hours.

- Some of the favorite foods are peanut butter, pretzels, applesauce (still called apple juice), bananas and cereal.

- When you are tired you start to repeat a lot of words. Once I get you upstairs and near your bed you almost dive in at times. You cuddle with DT and Turtle and say Ni Night.  Other times you let me hold you for a few and drool all over my shoulder. 

- I still can't bring myself to cut your hair. Not sure when that will change. Until now I like your long locks.

Back in the Groove

Returning from Colorado and we are back in the groove of our normal week of play hard, get dirty and sleep deep.

Some snaps from our recent trip to the park and a few videos.

Sand hat from Christine DeHaven on Vimeo.

Untitled from Christine DeHaven on Vimeo.

i heart faces - babies

I haven't entered in a while. When I saw this was the topic of the week I knew what shot I would have to enter. Sorry Miles it isn't you. It is your friend Kaeden that I took last month. He is going to kill the girls with those eyes. Check out all the baby submissions at I Heart Faces

For more of my stuff  and shots from Kaeden's Session you can check out my site or facebook page

Ready to fly!

Miles has learned the puppy dog face

Going down for naps is hard!

Swimming

Amazing pool in Denver. Miles got used to the water after 10 minutes and then played and played. One step closer to full on swimming.

Colorado

I love having a mountain backdrop to all your playground photos

General Wednesday

Running around the house on Wednesday I snapped some shots.

The ones of you in the crib didn't even come close to capturing how sweet you looked. You put DT and Turtle's little face outside the crib so that I would kiss them. You cuddled them and said "Ni Night"

Your hair was crazy so when I took the rubberband out of my hair you snagged it and asked me to put your hair up. You ran to the mirror (which you sometimes call a window) and laughed. You didn't pull it out right away. Instead you ran around like a maniac laughing.

First time using this type of slideshow. we will see how I like.

Zimmer Museum

We finally visited the Zimmer Museum today. The hours haven't worked with our schedule and now that the RIE class is on summer hiatus we were able to make it.

It reminded me of the Children's Museum in Cleveland and am excited to have something a bit closer to home.

We got their early and was glad we did. When we left it was really getting crowded.   We will be going back soon.

Some of your favorites...
- Plane you can climb in and drive
- Ambulance you can also drive (theme here)
- Tree/porch where you drover a little car around for about 30 minutes.

A Few of My Favorite Things

You are a boy with changing tastes. Thought I would start posting some of your favorite things so I can keep up with you.


Still holding strong... 

 

Your Favorite book right now. We read it before nap and bed.

Your buddies keep you company in the crib. Turtle and DT.

Okay so I am throwing this one in for me! 

Miles Ultimate favorite right now. 

Nummy!

Today you said Tummy for the first time and I was dying. NUMMY!

I tried to get it on video. No luck. I will get it soon.  Instead here is a sweet picture of you as you laugh at yourself in the mirror today.

Afternoon

Today was a normal Monday. You have been coughing at night so the fact you slept in till 8:30 was amazing. Of course you do it on the morning when we were going to meet friends for a run but whatever... you come first.

After nap we played in the backyard/water and splashed away. After you were all wet I put a really big tee on you and we ran around outside. I love the little boy in the big tee. It made me realize you are still little. Even though every day you make me cry a little as I realize you are a big boy.