Friday, December 26, 2008

Progressing

So Clay is over 14 months old now. He wont have a doctor's appointment for another few weeks, but we thought we'd give you an update on what and how he's doing!

He is a tall guy, just like his brother. He's wearing mostly size 2Ts or 80-90cms, and between a 4 and a 5 shoe. He loves anything that involves throwing things (about half his christmas presents involved balls), or stacking or especially placing toys inside other toys (or putting his toothbrush inside the humidifer, or his toys inside the subwoofer, etc). Speaking of toothbrushes, he also loves brushing his teeth. He'd go to bed late and sleep late if you let him. He hasn't had any more ear infections, knock wood, and for now it seems like holding off on tubes was the right move. As far as food, he loves applesauce, melon, and bread. As far as other foods, he goes back and forth- some days he'll love carrots, yogurt, or something else, the next day, not so much.

He seems to pretty much understand most everything we say, and responds to simple directions, so we think his hearing is back on track (his ear infections/fluid had caused some hearing loss earlier). He says a very, uh, interesting assortment of words, primarily influenced by his older brother. These include Hi, Ma-Ma, Teeth, Cady (the dog), Woof, Hot, Head, Ba-Ba (brother), Cheese, Fish, and, thanks to gus, Stinky, and Poop. He's also said Mommy, Dennis, and few others once or twice. He does more signing than Gus did, and signs for food, please, more, nursing/milk, hi/byehug, and no.

He is in every way a climber, much more than Gus ever was. He'll clamor to be let out of his Tripp Trapp high chair, only to climb back up it seconds later and try to climb onto the table. Right now he's sitting on the coffee table because every time I take him down, he climbs back up. The cutest thing he's doing these days is opening his arms really wide to say he wants a hug, and when you hug him, he pats you with his little hands. He also likes to wakes me up in the morning with a big "Hi" and a grin. More than anything he loves his big brother, and trying to do everything Gus does. if gus is sleeping and clay is not, clay will climb into his bed and give him a big hug (and then try to wake him).
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Happy Holidays!


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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Happy Birthday Gus!


Can you believe how big I've gotten?

My little brother got me a King / Knight Costume- I dressed him up as a Wizard

I got lots of good presents (too many! my moms say)

I had an awesome party complete with the "cow cake" I requested

We went to a fun party place with lots of bouncy houses


Even Mama and Clay got to play!

Here is Super Gus- don't tell anyone about my real identity!

Clay is "helping" my moms pus some bows on my presents
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Saturday, December 06, 2008

Ho Ho Ho!

We went to our local Airplane museum today see Santa fly in a helicopter- the reindeer were taking a break 



If only we had a real little elf to clean up around the house!


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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Our Family Is Equal

(And in the video)

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Monday, November 10, 2008

November News

  • Yup- he's walking. Not consistently, but for about two weeks now, a few steps here and there. Mostly when he thinks we aren't looking.
  • Oh, and we're excited about Obama. We didn't do enough leg work, but we did contribute. Very glad to be raising children who will never know anything different.
  • Prop 8 did take a bit of the wind from our sails. Our family deserves the same protections as any other. It's particularly sad that we had family members that voted against it. But that's how it is I guess. Hopefully people in California and everywhere will eventually see that we don't really have an "agenda" other than raising our families and loving each other, just like everyone else and that our kids deserve the protections that civil marriage provides to families. Let's get the religion out of politics!
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Sunday, November 02, 2008

Halloween


Trick or Treating in the wagon



A scawy dragon- but just a little scawy...

This Maryland Blue Crab is too cute to eat!

Pumpkin carving


Boo at the Zoo with Aunt Kallie- I had to be a Monkey because there are Monkeys at the Zoo!
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Movie Night!



Best thing about movie night?   
Popcorn!!
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Happy Birthday Clay!

Our little guy turned 1!

Enjoying his CookiePuss cake

This little boy loves anything he can throw!

Big brother Gus had to "help" open the presents

The wrapping paper may have been the favorite part... :)



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Sunday, October 05, 2008

Catching Up

We've been a busy bunch the past few weeks.  Some pics...

Pinwheel fun


11 month picture for Clay- soon to be 1 year old!!

Yummy carrots that Mama grew in the garden


Gus's first day of school

Trying on an old Halloween costume

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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Soccer

Gus had a little soccer clinic after school today- he did great! To
assist his accuracy in kicking he would pick up the ball and place it
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Take me out to the ball game


Take me out to the ball game
Originally uploaded by tchix
It speaks for itself.
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Sunday, September 07, 2008

Ren Fest part 2

Clay's first pony ride- unfortunately didn't get his first elephant
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Renaissance Festival

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Monday, September 01, 2008

Robot Gus

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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Tissues!

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Sunday, August 10, 2008

clay plays the kazoo


clay plays the kazoo
Originally uploaded by tchix
It's a little blurry, but you can clearly see he's a musical prodigy!
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Friday, July 25, 2008

Thursday, July 24, 2008

9 Month Doctor Visit

Clay's 9 month appointment was today:

He's passed 30 inches- 30 1/4 inches tall (95%tile)

22 lbs 9 oz weight (80th%tile)

headsize 46.6 (90th%tile)

So yeah, pretty proportional

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Our Second R Family Cruise

We loved it!

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Thursday, July 10, 2008

How he's grown




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Sunday, July 06, 2008

Movin' on up

Remember this?

Well, it happened again.  (Always catches our moms by surprise!)


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Clay Cuteness

"I love me some berries!"


Mommy won this seat on Prizey its from mylittleseat.com, and so far its been great! Very compact and easy to use


Two Cuties



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