All Ready For Bed

I couldn't help but laugh when I saw how Aaron styled Blake's hair after his bath the other night.

1 Year Old

On Blake's birthday we went to lunch with some fabulous friends, Jen and Katie. It was a lot of fun and Blake loved the food...or loved having the food all over his face. Thanks guys for eating with us!


This midget isn't such a midget anymore. At his 1 year check up, he was in the 90th percentile for height and 55 for weight. The doctor was impressed with how many words he is saying. Here are the things he says (and that we understand):
-mom
-dad
-hi
-bye
-ball
-up
-no
-you
-all done
-more (in sign language)
He has 4 teeth coming in...finally, but he still doesn't walk more than a couple of steps on his own.

First Birthday

We celebrated Blake's birthday this weekend. Since Blake will eat just about anything, it was no surprise that he loved his cupcake.

We're not sure if Blake or his cousins liked Blake's new toy more.

Birthday boy with Grandma and Grandpa.

What a cute guy...and a cute little kid too.

What a look, huh?

A Shaky Easter for Snaky

The practical Easter bunny came to our house and brought Blake some clothes and some toys.

This is Blake's first Easter egg hunt. We did this right after the earthquake and as you can see, he is still a little confused about what's going on. The hunt took place in the front yard while the waves in pool in the backyard were calming down from the quake.

Blake's cousins had fun finding their eggs.

Blake loves playing with his cousins and thankfully they love playing with him.

Happy Easter

This is an example of the cheesy smile that I mentioned in a previous post. Don't you love it? I also love the fact that he is playing with the packing that the Easter candy came in and has no interest at all in the candy. Happy Easter!

Fun at the park

I realized that I don't have many pictures of Blake at the park, so I remembered to take the camera the other day. I quickly got this picture before...

he got the carrying case. Why play with the play equipment when you have a camera case to play with?

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.

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.

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.