dinosaur

This relaxing and cuddling with dad does not happen often, so this was a lovely treat :) This is the first age where I've finally thought, "ok, you can stay this way for a little while".

tuckered out

I know, I'm such a mean mom I just sit there and record. Ha, but this is his typical nap time routine if I don't nurse him. For me at least, his babysitter says he goes down without a fuss, but I have yet to see it. And since this was taken a few weeks ago, he's pretty much crawling now. He can definitely get where ever he wants to go and he's getting pretty confident in himself. More to come on that soon!

baby blue

i'm supposed to be waiting so i can spread the posts out over more days, but i seriously love these pictures and can't wait one more day.

i love these faces.

marshmellow head

Guess whose idea this was?

dangles.

This is what you might find dangling from the doors when dad is in charge :)

And I posted a few belated posts that didn't show up at the top, so check here and here if you really can't get enough of us.

my boys.

Look at this goofball. I love him.

And he loves his dad.

His dad took him swimming.

Visiting Great Grandma Barbara

After hanging out in Monterey for a few days and eating ourselves sick on samples of clam chowder on the pier and taffy from the candy shops, and of course filling my head with new and exciting library things, we headed up to Antioch to see Great Grandma Barbara and the Cadwalladers. The drive nearly killed us as Tucker decided to scream the ENTIRE way, Doug was trying to listen to the world series game on our stupid broken car radio not very successfully, and i was in the back crying because I couldn't handle the screaming anymore. Yes, one of the most fun 2.5 hour drives I've ever been on.

But totally worth it because it was so fun to see them. Grandma was so good with little Tucker and she was awesome at keeping him entertained. Of course she had a bucket of toys for him that she had picked up at garage sales and that was a great help. Basically we just hung around and relaxed and played together. Fun to see Aunt Barbara and Uncle John and Rachel of course. We ran around to different stores trying to find Tucker some Giants-wear, but to no avail. It makes me really sad not to live by any family when I think about how much fun it is to be with them. Thanks for putting us up and showing us a good time :)