Our Walkie-Talkie

Video #1: Walkie



Video #2: Talkie

Mr. Samuel

Here are some pictures of what Samuel has been up to recently:

Painting. Messy = good.



Taking a break from playing by hanging out in the toy cabinet:





At a friend's birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese:



Side note about Chuck E. Cheese: I remember going to a birthday party there for a friend when I was about 8 (I don't know if you read our blog or not, but hi Jenny Boucher!) As a kid, I remember thinking it was fun. As an adult, I hope we do not get invited to birthday parties there very often. It was absolutely insane. The zillions of kids running around screaming, only to be fueled by pieces of cake the size of their head. The fact that kids need to take their shoes off in one part of the play area, but then are too excited/impatient to play/hopped up on sugar to want to put them back on before they do something else so they are running around the entire germ-filled room with no shoes on. And, is it just me, or is Chuck E. Cheese himself kind of scary, old, and dirty looking? However, Samuel LOVED it. His level of excitement about being there could not have been matched if Santa Claus and Buzz Lightyear both arrived at our house to play with him at the same time. He asks all the time if we can go back. I hope we get a little time to recover before someone else we know has a party there.

10 months old

Becca is 10 months old now. Almost a year already! Here are my attempts to take her picture with the bear. She was not interested in sitting still at all. I tried to give her a book to see if she would sit still, but then she just wanted to look at that and not at the camera. In the last picture she has spied the camera strap and is trying to grab it so she can eat it:







Notes about this month:

• She now weighs 20 pounds and is 27.5" long, both about in the 50th percentile.
• She is still a good eater and will try just about anything that I give her (and some things that I do not give her, but she has decided taste yummy, like paper, baby wipes, and woodchips from the playground.)
• She pulls herself up to stand on everything, and can stand on her own for a few seconds at a time without holding on to anything. She wants to walk very badly, and will walk all around the house holding on to our fingers. I think real walking is going to happen soon.
• She loves to play peekaboo, read books with pictures of babies, and go outside.
• At 9 months old she had 2 teeth. She now has SEVEN. She got them all at once!
• She adores her big brother and absolutely lights up when he walks into the room. She is constantly trying to pull his hair, which he is not a big fan of.
• She likes to explore, and will open any cabinet that is not baby proofed to see what she can find inside. She loves the tupperware cabinet in particular. One day when I was making dinner, I opened the fridge and she crawled over to check it out: