Pete came with me to school a few times while I finished unpacking my boxes. These toys are hanging from teething rings from the keyboard shelf of one of the student workstations.
The JCU romper? A hand-me-down from Sam. Thanks, Mom!
I know it's blurry, but it's such a happy picture! Taken while he was leaving against the steering wheel waiting for Joe to show at the train station.
Claire loves it when we trust her with Pete for a bit. You can see in this picture that he's propped up on the Boppy (light blue with white clouds) on her bed (pink and other bright colored butterflies) against the wall (purple and orange blocks).
Doesn't he look like he's going to tell you a funny story, once he remembers it?
Ahhh. So much to say.
So, I saw in Scrapbooks Etc.'s "Baby" special edition a cool two-page layout called "The Incredible Shrinking Bunny" or something like that. Basically, it was 12 photos of the baby, each of the months after his birth until one year, next to a favorite stuff animal. I thought it was cool and clever... and ripe for the stealing.
So I posed Pete in the glider, in the hopes of getting him to sit up, and put this "inchworm" toy (from my friend Becky when Claire was born) next to him for the picture. I took a few. Claire was on hand to make faces at Pete behind the camera and catch the worm if he kicked it off the chair.
However, she wanted to get in the picture, too, and kept edging her way in on the sides. With Pete getting so much camera time lately, I understood, and asked her if she'd wait just two more pictures of Pete, and then she could join in. She did, very patiently.
Although I got good pictures of Pete and his size, which was my intention, this is my favorite picture from the "shoot."
[Btw, the hat? From the "St. Patrick's Day Parade" she had at pre-school. We just unearthed it in the garage, and she insisted on wearing it all day.]
Pete likes having some playtime on the mat around 9:30 or 10 every morning and again in the afternoon. He has a great time looking at himself in the mirror, flailing his arms and pumping his legs, and kicking or hitting the animals hanging on the cross bars.
He has also begun smiling in earnest. He'll smile at you if you smile at him. He also smiles at Claire's silly faces. Most of all, he gets a kick out of "playing tongue," as Claire puts it, which means he sticks out his tongue, you stick out yours, and then he rewards you with a smile... and sticks out his tongue again.
Consider this the unicorn chaser for that last one.
"He looks like an angel when he's sleeping
There's a little piece of heaven where he lies
He looks like an angel when he's sleeping
But he looks like Charles Bronson when he cries."
- John Gorka
