Holiday Photos
Posted by Patrick on January 5th, 2010Photos from last month, in more or less chronological order. Thanks to everyone who put us up while were up north!
Teamwork
Posted by Patrick on December 19th, 2009Here are Kate and Ted working hard on some holiday related crafts.
Ted takes his stickers quite seriously.
Christmas Parade
Posted by Patrick on December 17th, 2009We took Ted to the town Christmas Parade last weekend. For Ted, it was pretty much two hours of awesome, with a stream of fire trucks, motorcycles, trucks, construction equipment, and people playing the drums.
Here’s Kate and Ted, seeing of they can see anything coming down the road yet.
Giant tractors? We got ‘em.
Unlike the first year we went, it was really cold out! Lots of bundling up. Ted didn’t seem to mind.
Here’s a video from the parade. (The first few seconds are really loud!)
Christmas Train
Posted by Patrick on December 13th, 2009The other weekend we took Ted on a holiday train ride at the North Carolina Railroad Museum.
For transportation obsessed little boys like ours, it was a good time. There were lots of trains to see at the museum, and a few scale model trains to see, too.
Coincidentally, Santa was cruising on our train. Ted handled the visit pretty well. When Santa gave him a candy cane, Ted inspected it and then handed it back.
It was a chilly day for an open train-car ride, so we were all bundled up.
Thirty-seventh-eighth-ninth Weekiversaries
Posted by Katherine on January 1st, 2009Time to catch up on my weekiversaries posts! These days Ted is hard at work learning to crawl. He tends to scooch backwards when he tries. Mostly whining when he is doing it, as if to say, why can’t you just give me my toy/ sit me up/ pick me up and carry me where I want to go.
He is also learning to clap. He hasn’t quite perfected it yet, he kid of wildly throws his arms around (getting points for enthusiasm) and crashes his fists into one another or he puts one hand down to stabilize it and claps it with the other. He gives great big smiles while he is clapping, so proud of himself. So cute.
He loves to jump and goes crazy in his Jumperoo, jumping up a storm. He also still really enjoys spending time in his Exersaucer. He is getting better with books. He will turn the pages now… Not always in the order you want them and will frequently snap the book shut during a story, but he is starting to get the idea. Sometimes he will sit by himself and flip through a board book. Of course his favorite play time activity is Mom or Dad lifting him high in the air.
He mostly says da-da, sometimes Bob or gah or tszzz, rarely ma-ma. Frequently he growls or makes an aaah noise that always makes me think of those Whassup? commercials.
His top two teeth are coming in. The have not broken the surface yet, but you can see them clearly under his gums. He also has an ear infection and he is handling it all so well… knock on wood. He had his first cold the week before last. He has been waking up a lot at night since the cold, but who can blame him? Hopefully when the ear infection is under control he will go back to sleeping through the night.
His newest foods are corn, blueberry, zwieback toast, chicken, and mango. He seems sensitive to bananas and pears, so we will wait awhile before trying those again. The doctor gave the go ahead to try dairy (lots of allergies in our families.) Once we are sure there is no reaction from the Amoxicillin for the ear infection (which I am allergic to) then we will try out some yogurt.
For his first Christmas we spent Christmas Eve with my family in Rhode Island at my Mom’s house. This year it was just my Mom and Bill, my sisters, Anne, Jack and us. My grandmother is rehabilitating in a nursing home, so we visited her in the afternoon. We ate ham and played with the babies and then sent them to bed and opened gifts. In the morning Jack and Ted got to open their presents together.
At the nursing home with Great Grammie
Then we headed over to Pat’s parents’ house with Kristen and Josh and opened some more presents with them and played with Ted and had some turkey.
Next we headed to my Dad’s house and ate some pork roast with him and Nancy, my sisters, Anne, Jack, my cousins, and my uncle. We opened even more presents and played with the kids some more. Friday we headed up to Natick to spend time with Pat’s grandparents.
Now this post has gone on way longer than I intended, but I might as well note that Ted watched the ball and the acorn drop last night with us at midnight. We weren’t planning on having him up for his first New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. We put him to bed at 8:00 but he woke up crying at 11:30, so I brought him downstairs with us.
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