Stairs Are a Fun New Toy

Baby discovered the stairs yesterday and became a pro at them the second time up. He now LOVES them and heads there every chance he gets!!

Here Is Our Eight Month Old

And he's growing like crazy!!

Father's Day

For Father's Day this year, Dave didn't have his usual meetings before church starting at 7:00 am, so I was able to get up and make him a nice breakfast before he had to head off to church. He also opened his presents before church. This year we went pretty inexpensive. He got a package of new socks from baby and the new Switchfoot CD (that he knew about) from me.

After church, we just relaxed. Then I let him open his real presents. (We really did give him the other things, but he needed/knew about them.) The little man gave his a puzzle that we had made from a picture of the two of them playing. This is the original picture:

I gave him a "Can of Dates" as well as a can of "Temple Treats". We haven't been the best at going on dates with one another, especially since the little man was born. So I decided to give him these cans so that he gets a date with me every week for the next year. There is a word strip for each date and there is a date for almost every week for a year. Eash Sunday he will draw his date out of the can and I will pick which day we do it based on schedules and time required. Some weeks are already planned out, like Holiday/Birthday/Anniversary weeks. Once a month he will draw a paper out of the "Temple Treats" can instead. It is a treat to eat after our temple trip for the month. Here is what they look like:

New Posts

There are a few new (old) posts on the blog:
Six Month Stats

Trying Baby Food

My Little Seven Month Old
Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

There are also five new picture posts on the little monkey's blog!
Baby Food
Seven Months Old
Eight Months Old
Stairs!! and
Nine Months Old

There will be several on this blog in the next day or two as well!

Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due!!

For all of the posts about making cookies where I said "we", I mean Rebecca and myself, not me and the mouse in my pocket. ;) So here is a picture of my Sous Chef, Rebecca. Thanks for all of your help!! We need to do it again!

(And I am working on updating both blogs, so there will be lots of new posts and pictures soon!)