Video of the Day: 6/4/12

This is at Little Beans Cafe - where Jenn used to work. He's such a good little walker!

Simon's first night at Auntie Colleen's

On Saturday afternoon Aunt Colleen picked Simon up for his first night without either of his parents so Alan could take me out for my birthday. As expected, all went smoothly. Colleen is an old hand at all the stuff required to take care of Simon. The only semi-new part was sleeping/napping out of the crib and, really, he's done that at Colleen's before too. 

They had a great day of laughing, reading, puppies and food (those last two are separate things). We forgot to give poor Colleen a stroller or wrap, so she wasn't as mobile as she'd hoped. Park time just turned into back yard time, which meant they hung out with the puppy and little boy two months older than Simon from upstairs. We also don't have a portable high chair, so Colleen was stuck trying to feed Simon as he crawled all over exploring. It's so hard to feed him when he's not strapped into a chair! She managed and even tuckered out the little guy enough that he passed out right at 5 with no crying!  We will definitely be doing date night this way more often. Thanks again, Colleen!

Jump for pictures of date night... Crepe making class and then on to Chicago's Wine Riot.

First Steps

Simon took his first steps today!! With both me and Alan there!!! He took two or three steps in a row a few times. We even got one on video.

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Home!

Missing Mama

Emily's been out of town for work for a few days this week, and Simon is very noticeably missing her - especially when he first wakes up and at bedtime. When I take him out of his crib in the morning he's happy to see me but soon he starts looking around for Mama since usually if she's not the one to greet him in the morning then she's not far behind me. After more time has goes by and she still hasn't shown up, he gets more frantic and starts signing "milk" (which is also his way of saying "nursing" and "snuggle with Mommy") over and over.  Normally he's very content to play by himself for a while, but after a full day/night of her being gone he starts being more and more needy/clingy/fragile.  And finally today he wasn't his typical cheerful self... not necessarily crying or cranky, but just very serious.

He gets lots of love from everyone, but there's no substitute for Mama

He hasn't been upset the whole time she's been gone - overall, we've had a fun couple days with just us boys.  But we're both looking forward to having Mama back tomorrow morning.

More sleepy serious Simon after the jump...

Picture of the Day: 5/31/12

Bath time, yay!

Put it Away

Simon puts his toys away now!