strange things i caught august doing this week:

1. drinking out of the dog's water dish as if it were a cup.

2. trying to eat the hindge off the door.

cruisin' for a bruisin'

Literally.  August is on the move, but he moves slowly, making sure to touch and examine everything in his path.  I tried to get his cruising on video, but it would have been way too long.  Instead, here's a video of where he started and then a few photos of his progression from his activity center to the other side of the table.

godzilla vs domo

I started this painting before August was born as part of the nursery prep...8 months after birth, it is finally finished!

booties

August is ready for winter...beanie, check!....awesomely cute mongolian booties (thanks friend of Kaethe!), check!  Now he just needs some pants ;)

ZOO!

We took August to the zoo last weekend...we had a blast, but I'm not so sure August even cared.  We thought he was old enough to enjoy seeing all the cool animals, but he was more interested in my sunglasses and the grass.  Well, he did like the sea lions, but was pretty much oblivious to all the other "less active" animals.  It was still a fun family outing none the less.

"Hello, my name is August. I like to climb on things. Can I have a banana? Eek-Eek!"

It didn't take long after he started crawling...he soon started pulling himself up on things and, inevitably, falling down and bumping his head.  It doesn't seem to phase him though (besides the crying that follows), he just gets back up and keeps exploring.   

He is loving his little lamby chair now that he can climb...it's the perfect height.

He can stand up in his crib now.  Don't worry, we lowered it really soon after this was taken.  Look at that proud look on his face...haha!  

It's getting increasingly harder for Duggie to find a safe spot... 

and it's impossible to keep anything on the coffee table.

And as of yesterday, he can now stand up using flat surfaces, like the wall or sliding glass door.

Go Heels!

Tia Pringle and Tio Michael got August a bunch of Tar Heels stuff, all of which is packed away (outgrown) except his Rameses plush that plays their fight song.  He loves it!

carters haul

This is for you, mom.  Thanks again for all the cute clothes!  Can't wait to see you so so soon!!!

random photos

I stoll most of these from Justin's sister...;)  The first three are from Genny's gradution back in July. 

The next two are from Daena and Jason's engagement party (also in July I think).

 

And these two are just around the house recently.  I wanted to post these next to an older picture of August in his lamby chair to see how huge he's gotten, but I think that picture got lost when my laptop died :(

gotta teach em early.

No matter how hard I try, I cannot keep the floors clean.  August decided to lend a hand by dragging the mop down the hallway. 

I really wish this was for real cause I would totally buy one!


Baby Mop from Chris Milk on Vimeo.

my baby thinks he's a cat

mini vacay!!!

Last weekend, Justin and I left August with the grandparents for one night so we could join some of our friends at Elephant Butte.  We set out for the 2.5 hour drive on Friday to what I think is probably one of the closest lakes to Albuquerque (weird, I know, but I live in the desert now).  After a week of August being sickers and not sleeping, we were more than ready for a night away.

I am horrible at taking pictures (quality and quantity).  I made a thoughtful effort to bring my camera on our latest adventure determined to capture memories, but that lasted all of 2 hours.  At least I have something...

 Out on the boat.  We just chilled on Friday, but Saturday Justin and I did a little wake boarding (wish I had pics of that) ;(

So, we had to drive down through sand to get to our campsite.  We had the Element, which did get stuck once, but was easy to push out.  The two small cars on the other hand...you can't really see in this small pic, but here they are stuck the first time and below here I am waiting for the rest of the crew to get unstuck.  My car feels right at home here (or in it's element, teehee).Here is our campsite, before it was actually set up.  We slept in the Element and it was pretty comfortable (all four seats lay flat for that purpose). 

The best part was waking up Saturday morning and just laying there. 

CUTEST BABY EVER!

We entered August in the Gerber Generation Photo Contest.  Please vote for him.

Here is the link.

http://www.gerber.com/photo/?entryid=102346&/#/detail/

I think you can vote once a day until the end of  the month, so please bookmark the page and go there as often as possible.  There are thousands of photos entered each month, but one lucky winner with get a $25,000 scholarship.

sleeping like a baby

So, yesterday a.m., upon waking, August was making the cutest sounds ever in his crib.  I tried to be sneaky and capture the sounds on video without disturbing him, but it took him all of 2 seconds to find me.

Later that day, I put August down for one of his naps and left him with his teddy to snuggle.  I went in to check on him a few minutes later and this is what I found.

August is pretty stinkin cute while he's awake, but sleeping August is the cutest!

crawling, it's what i do.

August has only been crawling for a week, but he's already explored the whole house several times.  Here he is crawling through the bottom of his activity center,

and crawling around the living room.

Crawling is exhausting work, so sometimes he has to stop and rest ;)

August's 1st birthday party

Not his birthday (he's not 1 yet thank goodness!), but his friend Emily just turned 1.  Baba was there...here is the cuteness.