A day (or 20 minutes) at the park

I realized the other day that, although Dave had visited many parks, he had yet to get on a swing. Since swinging is one of my favorite things to do, I felt this must be rectified. So, we visited the local park this morning.





I think he liked it! He sure held on tight though.











Don't be alarmed, Dave was well supervised. Josh ran out of the shot.







After the success on the swings, Dave played on some equipment and we took him on a mini teeter-totter. Then, on to the slide!



After his very first slide. I went with him on the first go round. From then on he went down all by himself. (Even on a much bigger slide)




We let him walk around on the mulch for a while, but then he did a diving roll into it. After picking all the mulch out of his mouth, we decided it was time to head out. It's hard reasoning with a nine month old that eating mulch isn't a good idea.

9 months old!!!

Oh my goodness my baby is getting so old! He is walking everywhere, getting new teeth, and beginning to make sounds that seem like words.

We did his nine month photo shoot. This is the best shot. Every single other picture is blurry.





Dave and his books.














Josh's mom played dress up with Dave. Poor little guy. I have to say, I think he really enjoyed that diaper cape.







We finally figured out that Dave will sit in a high chair...you just have to bribe him with cheese. Now I don't have to put him in a baby head lock to get him to eat!






Check out those chompers! These little teeth have been the bane of our existence this past week. We finally had another break through (although, not the other front tooth). Hopefully his other front tooth comes in soon to even things out.







Dave and Sophie hanging out at (great) Aunt Veronica's. They were both very upset I wouldn't let them have my camera.




Here are two videos of Dave walking-sorry if the quality is bad, I couldn't watch them before I uploaded them. Stupid computer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-mQSkEWF2o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cn7P9vXYYk

This Wednesday we will be heading to Evansville to visit family for a whole week! We cannot wait to take a vacation and relax with the fam. Hope everyone has a great week!

The cell phone

A couple of weeks ago, Dave put my cell phone in the toilet. Amazingly, I put it in some rice for a couple of days and it still worked. Now, a smart person would no longer allow him to play with it...but who can resist this face?





Please mom-I promise to stay away from toilets.










Of course, he immediately tries to eat it.












What? Does it have another purpose?













Trying to get away with the phone. This is his quick getaway walk. Doesn't it look like he's getting frisked?

Anniversary

This past week Josh and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary. Crazy how time flies! We took a family picture at Emilee's graduation celebration. (Congrats to Emilee for finishing her program!)



This is at the Mississinewa Overlook. It's a very pretty spot.
Kinda wished we were out on the reservoir that day...it was approaching 100 with the heat index.







Great-grandma Mary and Grandma D hanging out with Dave at the party.










Dave has this habit of going to his bookshelf and pulling out every single book. It's becoming less and less adorable. Of course, he thinks he can do no wrong-check out that grin!









Dave and Sophie fighting over his new walker toy. They were so cute together last week! They are really starting to play now instead of just staring at each other.




In Dave updates: We have been working really hard to establish a night time routine with Dave and stick with it. So far, we give him a bath, read a book, and then I feed him before putting him down. He cries for a couple of minutes and then usually falls asleep.

I have also stopped feeding him in the middle of the night-we started that about 5 nights ago and it's getting better every night. He typically wakes up once a night and I let him cry for a while then check on him and change his diaper.

Finally, he got in one of his top teeth! I haven't been able to get a picture of it yet, but will post as soon as I do. We're pretty sure he's cutting his 2nd tooth on the top-have I mentioned how much I hate teeth?!

And here's a video of Dave and Sophie chasing each other around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ZNflCEgbk

Watch out world!

It's official...Dave's walking! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1iQmxIBGhU

I will post pictures and videos of Dave and Sophie together tomorrow probably, just had to get these out there!




Here's a picture I forgot to put in the post about visiting Eville. Great-grandpa Dave loved showing off little Dave-two very happy fellas.

Trip to Evansville

We spent this past weekend hanging out in Evansville, a little preview to the week vacation we're taking down there at the end of the month. We had a great time...Dave remembered everything more quickly this time. I think as he gets older he'll do better and better when traveling to places that he hasn't seen in a while. He's always a little timid at first.





Dave trying to snack on Kyra's steak. Don't worry, we didn't let him eat it. Pretty sure he licked the delicious steak juices off his fingers.












His first corn on the cob! Well, the first butter from the corn on the cob. He's currently cutting one of his top teeth, so it's only a matter of time until he can actually eat it.







Dave and uncle Tony.








Hanging out with granddad in the pool.










Tony saw a video of a baby doing this on youtube. So, of course, Josh had to recreate it.






Dave started scooting random furniture around to get from place to place. Here is him pushing mom's stool around the kitchen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc1jqBZboXs

So, mom went out to find Dave an actual toy he could use for this. He loved it! He's been pushing it all over our house. However, he constantly gets it stuck and starts screaming. Thanks mom :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm6O2_yLhqI

8 Months Old!

Dave in his rocking chair that used to be mine. Still a little too big :)











Check out Dave's latest trick!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNUOxqBUt2o


















We're heading down to Evansville to visit with my family this weekend. Hope everybody has a great weekend!

Video Post

Family picture from on top of the mountains in Vail. We weren't planning on going up the gondola when we left the hotel, so we improvised when the weather turned cool!



Since I didn't include any videos last post (and was yelled at), here are a few from the last couple of weeks. All of our vacation videos are ridiculous, so I won't be posting any of those. I am venturing out and posting one that you can hear me talking on. I really hate this kind, but Dave's cute so I'm going to suck it up!

Dave playing hide and seek. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sVstxYhsT0

Bath time at (almost) 8 months. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZxVAZ5svDg

And finally, Dave crawling around and being loud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k23l72Ieoc

I can't believe Dave will be 8 months old tomorrow! He's growing up so fast.

This weekend we're all headed down to Evansville to hang out with my family and go to my grandpa's family reunion (Dave better prepare himself!). Hope you're having a great week!

We're back from Vail!

Well, we made it back from vacation, reluctantly of course. Everything went very well with Dave (minus a few nights of sleeping). It is a lot of work to take a baby on vacation though! We're really busy now that we're back, so I'm going to keep this short and heavy on the pictures.





Dave hanging out on a cool art project featuring pine trees cut in half. This was in Vail at the Betty Ford Gardens.










Dave and I at Piney Lake. Josh, Dave, and I took a drive up a mountain one day at discovered this. Totally worth the drive!









Family picture in Breckenridge. It had really great views of the mountains.









Dave on his first gondola ride. This was the one in Breckenridge on the way up to an amusement park type place. Josh went down a cool alpine slide while we were up there. And Dave refused to eat for about 2 straight hours. Not my favorite part!







This is taken from Rocky Mountain National Park. We drove up to Estes Park before heading down to Vail after we landed in Denver. Probably my favorite spot in all of Colorado (this is where Josh and I honeymooned). Only drawback to this was Dave got horrible altitude/motion sick during the drive through the park. We're talking projectile vomiting here. Poor guy. No worries though, he took it like a champ.












Don't worry this was after he was sick and was feeling better, ha!

On top of Vail Mountain.

Dave looks super creepy like this!

In Vail Village.

We drove past this cool ghost town-Gilman, Colorado.

Long like to Lost Lake.

We're in the process of getting Dave's night routine under control. It's going pretty well, we've gotten him to go to bed much earlier. However, we're trying this in the middle of him cutting more teeth so it's been a little rough. I'll update on how it's going next time!

Pictures galore!

Well, we're one short work day until vacation starts! It is definitely needed, all of us are getting tired. Josh gets up early every day for the cottage and Dave hasn't been sleeping well at night which means we're both up. I think he's getting either his bottom canines or his two top teeth. He's not showing them off anymore, which makes it hard to see what's up.

Otherwise he's been doing very well. He has learned how to eat his puffs (kind of like cheerios for babies, just more expensive since it's for babies). This is good because I'm tired of hand feeding them to him! He's transferring himself from one thing to another a lot better, so walking is that much closer.

And, we finally got his 6 month pictures done at Sears. They turned out really cute and he was much more cooperative this time.



This is the one we ordered.





























Here he is in his Sunday outfit courtesy of Gamma (my mom).

I love the rolled up sleeves look.










This is an outfit that Josh's mom saved for him-it's over 27 years old! I can't believe how well it held up. It's so cute and retro. Also, you can see in this picture that Dave's beloved face rash is back. Thanks teething.









I put Dave on his float like this as a Joke thinking he would want to roll over immediately. Nope, he relaxed like this.







And then Cousin Sophie busted up his relaxing. Check out his scowl. She was probably trying to steal his raft. They absolutely love to take things from each other.




All of Josh's family got together for the 4th. Dave is officially afraid of fireworks because he was woken up by a giant boom. And then proceeded to cry for most of the rest. Sophie, on the other hand, loved the fireworks.

Here's a video of them together. Of course, they were playing and super cute and then as soon as the video camera came out, they stopped. This was the best that we got. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZMW1GGsqwM

And one of Dave with his remote. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPkCtJfoHqU

I'll miss next week's post, but will get one done as soon as we get back from Colorado!