Stickers

Ever since I gave Auggie bath 'stickers,' he's been trying to stick everything to the walls, including all his clean diapers, books, balls, toys, and even Zoe's toys. He also has taken to finding any sort of 'toy' and trying to give it to Zoe.

He's very opinionated about what goes in his mouth, and really only wants to eat formula or bread. He will hold out for as long as possible for those two items, and when he realizes that they won't be forthcoming, he will reluctantly eat other foods (while crying).

Sometimes, he'll point to ask me what something is. For the most part, though, he's usually pretty happy exploring by himself.

As for Gavin, after asking me for a dog book for a very long time, I finally checked out the SPCA dog care manual for him. He's obsessed with whelping puppies, and likes to diagnose Zoe's problems. He's also finally picking up some minimal Chinese, and names some colors.

Big Island Trip

We went to the big island with two other families this summer, which consisted of AM beach, PM pool and lots of eating. Auggie was fascinated with the way he could clean his hands of sand in a bucket of water, and Gavin loved his poodle noodle and fish hunting.

Pics courtesy of Boo.

Auggie eating the table at Roys.

Family photos for preschool

We needed to take some pics of our whole family for preschool, so that the kids can look at the pics of their family if they're missed (but really so that the parents can look up other parents names and spare the embarrassment of asking for the nth time), and here were our two best shots. In other news, our backyard is done!

8 month pics

Since I forgot to post 7 month pics, here are a ton of 8 month pics. Auggie grew two teeth, can crawl, and, when desperate, says "ma ma!, uuuuuh (up), and daaa daaa." Otherwise he's pretty quiet except for his shrieks of laughter, that is.

Auggie's 6 month pics

Here are Auggie's 6th month pics. He can sit now! And he says things that sound like "uh-oh," and "hell-lllo!" He also finally learned how to roll over both ways, but still isn't great at it yet. He eats about 5-6 oz of various baby foods every day, and seems to prefer grains and veggies to fruits.

Oh, and he cut his first tooth yesterday!

Happy 4th of July!

Auggie's 5 month pics

Auggie is 5 months, but still can't roll over yet, or sit up by himself. He is pretty cute, though. We started him on solids a month ago, and so far he likes rice and oatmeal cereals, but does not like fruit. He hates napping, unless he's laying flat on a bed, and particularly dislikes his carseat.

In other words, it's summer, and Gavin has been so much better behaved now that he's not in preschool. He's much better at writing letters and spelling three letter words, and has a very broad palate. Here he is being silly, as usual.

Here are Auggie's 5 months pics that we took in our backyard. So much better than the local picture studio!

Auggie's 4 month pics/ Mom's day

I maybe have 10 good pics of Auggie, which is pretty sad, really, considering that when Gavin was 4 months, he had 100s! Oh well. Hopefully the cuteness of these pics make up for that!

First, we'll start with a pic of Gavin at preschool

And another with his friend James at his other preschool...

Here are Auggie's 4 month pictures. He's perfectly 50% in weight and height, which translates to about 15.8 lbs. When Boo was a baby, I used to bring him to a cheap studio to take monthly pics of him. I've decided to take pics of Auggie at home, because the studio pics here turned out terribly (that, and the nearest one is far away). Enjoy!

Here's what I got for Mother's Day... along with a purple filo and shrinky dink necklace from Boo... and a giant armful of laundry!