Wednesday, March 31, 2010

He's learning


Blake has done some pretty funny things lately that I thought I should post before I forget.
1. Blake was playing with Aaron's phone (his phone is probably his favorite thing to play with). The phone has a picture of Blake on it, which Blake saw, pointed to the picture and said, "you". I guess we need to stop telling him that's you and say that's Blake.
2. I frequently ask Blake questions and never get a response--unusual right? Well, yesterday at the park I asked him if he wanted to go home. He responded this time with..."no". We stayed a little bit longer.
3. Blake is great at going up the stairs and now at going down the stairs, but can't really transition himself yet from crawling over to the stairs to go down, so he will usually wait for someone to turn his body for him. Sometimes he doesn't want to go upstairs when I want him to (surprise), so what I have done is to put a toy a couple of stairs above, then once we get close to the toy I move the toy up another couple of stairs and keep doing this until we make it upstairs. Yesterday, we were upstairs and he took a toy over and put it on the first stair going down and just looked at me. It didn't take me too long to figure out that someone wanted to go downstairs.
4. Blake is a little social guy. At the park, he is always "talking" to his little friends, but most of them usually don't "talk" back. He will now even wave bye to his friends, but nothing in return. So, as you can imagine, when we go to stores where there are adults who love kids, he has a blast. I am pretty sure Blake is known by all the staff at our local grocery store. He always gives them a cheesy smile (he has 2 smiles..his real one and the fake, cheesy smile) and then will wave to them when we leave. Of course it is a bonus when other costumers come up to Blake--he loves that and will give them the same cheesy smile.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Lick it clean


He has been trained well...make sure your plate/bowl is clean.

Oh wait, there is a little bit left.


Now he is happy.

11 Months Old


His new word...whoa! Fits him perfectly.

He is getting way too tall and way too smart. He loves to pull EVERYTHING out of drawers (and will figure a way to get into them if he is too short to stand and get into them). His favorite drawer is the office supply drawer.

He found the post it notes. Here he is "sharing" them with me after I called his name. I'm guessing he thinks that if he shares, then he won't get in trouble.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Trip to the zoo

Since Aaron had the week off, we took Blake to the zoo.


He loved watching the birds.




Blake waving at the Bald Eagle.

James is back


My brother got back from his mission this week so we went to the airport to pick him up.

This is Blake meeting his uncle for the first time. Nothing but love.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Wake up and dance

So, the other day Blake was taking a nap (I know totally unlike him). Once he woke up Michelle turned on some Goo Goo Dolls and immediately Blake started dancing. So, Michelle quickly grabbed the video camera and captured what you see here. Music apparently is in his bones.