Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Home Improvement

The past two weekends have been full of home improvement projects for us. Here is our new bedroom fan. The old one's motor completely died so we needed to replace it.
Forrest also replaced the bathroom ceiling fan. This the hole in the ceiling before he put the new one in. Due the angle of the ceiling Forrest was basically standing on his head.
Forrest in his home improvement get up.
This past weekend we replaced the lights in our kitchen (Thank you Costco - 5$ each!) and bought a new light for our guest room bath.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Hear Me Roar... Take 2

Okay... I realize that the first video I posted did not have Ephraim roaring. Forgive a first time mom who was so excited about her son's new trick that she posted a video of a terrific example of how not to roar.

I am now making it up to you. If you can't hear the roar in the first one... I don't know what to tell you. The second video has more roaring and you can hear his version of "uh-oh" when he drops his book.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Once Upon A Time...

There was a beautiful and clever Mommy who decided to build a barricade.

"Ha! Ha!" She thought to herself. This will keep my small child in the living room so that he cannot sneak up the stairs!


At first her fantastic and well thought out idea worked well.


Then she caught her little monkey doing this...


Which ended like this.
And lead to this.

Moral of the story: This beautiful and clever Mommy needs another gate.

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

10 Months

There is something about this little guy's blue eyes that just melt me. He has been learning so many new things this past month it has been a lot of fun.
He is a master bear crawler - and zips around our house at break neck speeds. He is constantly on the go. He has mastered climbing the stairs and loves to try to sneak up them when I'm not looking.
His tongue is one of his new toys and he loves to roll it around and stick it out.
Check out those chompers. As of last night he has five teeth. He is eating more solids and has figured out how to get them into his mouth on his own. He has learned how to "roar" and we are working on making other animal sounds. He is getting really good at trying to stand by himself and lets go whenever he can. The longest he has stood has been 10 seconds, but he hasn't tried to take any steps.
We are working on baby sign language with him. He understands milk, more and all done. He can't do them on his own, but you can tell that he gets it. Sleeping is still an issue and every time I think I develop a way to combat the sleep issues that I have helped him create - we go on a trip, or he is teething, etc. He goes down to sleep on his own much better though - so at least that is an improvement.

Monday, February 02, 2009

Sunday, February 01, 2009

I Won!

A Contest that is. I almost always enter giveaways on blogs and this time I actually won! I even have the email from Big Mama to prove it! I am very excited to read my Marla Taviano book and use my 25 dollar giftcard to Target!