Our Little Canadian

We took this picture to send to Uncle Jerry as he sent Adrian the shirt for his birthday. I don't know why I find this picture so adorable (it's probably because I am Adrian's Mom and think pretty much everything he does is adorable) but I do.

Adrian seems to have had a bit of a reaction to his shots last week and has a nasty little measle like rash all over his back and chest. The doctor thinks it is nothing to worry about since he isn't acting any differently than usual. He looks quite the little mess right now with his rash, fat lip from last week, a cut on his tongue from falling and biting it and any number of mystery bruises from all his recent tumbles. Now that I think about it he sort of looks like a little hockey player, well minus the rash!

From crawling to running in under 7 days

Adrian went from taking his first few shaky steps to chasing the girls at the sitter's in less than a week. Lisa doesn't know what to do with him and his sidekick Abby as they are trying to run all the time and aren't totally steady on their feet yet. I just got a call from her saying that Adrian took a little nose dive into the coffee table this morning and that I should expect a fat lip when I pick him up at the end of the day. Do you think I get a discount on her services if I pick up 'damaged goods' at the end of the day? (Just kidding.)

I tried to capture some of his walking at Grammy and Grampy Underhill's on the weekend but the pictures don't do it justice.




Yesterday was Adrian's 12 month needles. Boy are we both glad that is over with for another 6 months. Each needle session gets progressively worse because he is that much older and that much more aware of what is happening to him. I was fighting my urge to pick him up and run the whole time. He went into a 'super cry' that only happens when he is really hurting that could just break your heart. Luckily it only lasted a few minutes. We brought Daddy along to do the holding as I can't handle it. While Daddy was holding him down and Adrian was wailing Daddy made a big discovery... Adrian has 2 new teeth on the bottom! I was so focused on the top teeth that I never even checked the bottom. (Not to mention Adrian will happily bite your finger if you try to stick it in him mouth to explore.) So he will have 4 new teeth shortly... 2 on bottom and 2 on top.

Adrian's newest obsession is climbing into stuff. If he sees a box, pot, basket or anything else he may be able to fit in he wants to climb inside of it. We have an old diaper box in the living room and he will happily sit inside of it and play for an hour in the evening. He really likes climbing through our stash of diapers in his closet as well. It's a good way to keep him entertained while I am getting his clothes ready for the next day or sorting his laundry. The downside is it results in more mess for me to clean up afterwards. Oh well, such is life with a curious 1 year old!

All in a day's work

Sometimes Adrian gets rather exhausted from all of the playing at daycare. On this particular night he ate a whole sweet potato and fell asleep waiting for his next course. (Look how cute his fat little belly is!) He probably would have slept there all night if Mommy hadn't woken him up.

He was extra tired last night from all of the walking. He can now take about 10 steps, stop, turn and then take 10 steps back to his starting point. It's crazy to watch him do this all of the sudden. Daddy isn't going to know what happened when he gets home from Quebec! It's amazing how much a little one can learn over the course of a few days.

Come to Momma!

I went to pick Adrian up from daycare yesterday. I walked through the door and Lisa (our awesome babysitter) and Adrian were standing there waiting for me. She said "Show Mom what you have been doing all day". And sure enough he picked up his fat little feet and took about 4 steps right into my anxiously awaiting arms. I was so surprised and proud of the little guy. He had taken a few steps before but never that many and never with such confidence. It was like he had been walking for months not days. He is still pretty shaky and you can see a look of concentration on his face but he is definitely on the move with no turning back. He has to keep up with all of those girls at daycare!

This is one of my favorite quotes as it really sums up motherhood for me thus far, and is now more true than ever... my heart really is walking now!

"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body." ~Elizabeth Stone

A busy Saturday morning

Saturday mornings aren't the lazy affairs they used to be. No more rolling out of bed at 10AM and going to Fred's for breakfast/lunch for us anymore! We are usually up around 7:30AM, eat breakfast and start in for some serious playing by 8AM.


This Saturday morning was an interesting one because first Grampy Jones came to visit to help Dad cut down a pesky tree in our front yard that kept messing up Mommy's new car. Adrian is very interested in power tools it seems and was enthralled with watching his Dad and Grampy out the front window as they used the power saw.

Then Grammy and Grampy Underhill showed up for a visit and brought along Smelly dog as well. Adrian really likes Smelly because she is old and slow and he can get away with alot more with her than Barkley. Barkley just runs away when Adrian gets too touchy for his liking. We looked over and Adrian had just decided to get on top of Smelly and try to go for a ride. Smelly didn't seem to care at all and just sat there calm as could be and let him do his thing.

Adrian got pretty tired out with all the action and was in a very rare mood where he actually sat still and read a book. Grampy Underhill had the good luck of catching him in this mood and they read a few books before we had to get packed up to go to the Jones' family corn boil in Stanley.