I do it all aself mommy

This afternoon Holly was in the kitchen and she heard from the living room "Hey mom, since you're up, you think you could get me a bottle? I'm feeling kind of hungry." Holly thought this a bit odd but obliged and quickly prepared a bottle for the little man. When she started to feed it to him he smacked her hand out of the way with a strong "I do it all aself mommy" (This is a direct quote of a young Holly, I don't know where Aleric heard it) Holly decided to see how long he would do it and he fed himself an entire 6oz bottle. Then promptly passed out. All the talking and self sufficiency really tuckered him out.

I'm gonna be like you dad

Aleric was on the porch swing swinging with his mom and I was lounging in the lounge chair talking to them when Aleric let us know that he wanted to sit with me, but in his own chair. That was when I went to the garage and built a shrinking ray so he could have his own porch chair. It worked pretty well for the first run, aside from making the chair white, but I think I fried some of the electronics because I haven't been able to shrink that pile of boxes the movers left in our garage. Anyways, back to the the hero of our story, Aleric told me that he wanted to be just like me when he grew up but that he wanted to have his moms organizational skills and her good memory. I told him those were good goals and we sat sipping on our respective drinks for a few more minutes enjoying the Hawaiian evening breeze.

A proud ham (that can sit!)

No real story to this one, he was just hamming it up one evening and looking super cute so we snapped this shot to prove to everyone that he really can sit up all by himself. He likes to do this when he's playing with his toys. Hope you like it.

The Cake

About 3 months ago Holly found a magazine with a cake on the cover that she really wanted to make for Aleric's birthday. I guess she couldn't wait until then because as soon as she heard that our neighbor's son was turning two she decided to make this cake for him instead. Work began on this masterpiece at around 5pm on the 1st. As you can tell, if you've noticed the post time, we didn't finish until around 2am on the 2nd. I would say though, that all the work was worth it because the cake turned out beautifully despite our inexperience in this sort of thing.

What do you mean Santa isn't real?!!!

Aleric and I were sitting around talking today when he asked me where all of the toys he has came from. "Well son," I said " lots of nice people who care about your gave them to you.." and that's when he said "You mean like Santa?" Now, I don't even know where he heard of Santa since his name doesn't really come up in every day conversation and Aleric hasn't even been through his first Christmas but I figured our neighbor kid Xan must have said something to him. "Son, I'm going to tell you something my dad told me a long time ago. Santa isn't real. Don't worry, you'll still get lots of presents all the time." Maybe I should have waited until he was a bit older to break the news to him, he seemed a bit upset.

The Pouty Face

Aleric will make this face every time without fail if you pretend the spoon is an airplane. The moment you put the spoon down, he smiles at you like "I win, That plane couldn't land!"

Bouncing Baby Boy

One of Aleric's favorite places to be is in his little Johnny Jump-Up. It's especially nice since it keeps him happy while we're making dinner and he's getting really good at maneuvering at will.

The Boogie Pack

Holly found this great hiking style baby pack. it's great and Aleric seems to love it.

Sorry for the long delay

Well I think I may have finally settled down enough to make an honest effort at putting up some stories and images for everyone to enjoy. For those of you with a wal-mart nearby (what is that, like 98% of the population now?) I will gladly send pictures to your local store to go pick up. Just email me. So here we go with some new posts.

pregnancy

Today was Daddy's turn to be pregnant, or at least in appearances. It started to rain on our way home from the store so Holly put his big blanket over him. We didn't know it looked like I was wearing a dress until we got home.