Celebrating one year with Simon!!

Today is my one year with the amazing Basque family and Simon and I decided to celebrate by going to breakfast at Wishbone, refusing a nap (too excited!!), and a trip to the museum of science and industry. Here are some photos from the day and the baby Simon photo is the first photo I ever took of him :) I love this family and this year has been such a wonderful year!! Thank you for all 365 days Emily, Alan, Simon, and family!!!!! Love Jenn (aka baby nanny)

Animal Sounds

Simon can make a ton of animal sounds and here are the ones associated with the blocks. I love that he moos for the Moose. And sometimes he holds his nose for the skunk and says PU!

Story Time

Some Father-Son reading time.... I love that Simon yawns and stretches and touches his toes. 

One More

Simon learned to say One More...

What drawer?

What, mom? What drawer am I not supposed to open?

Daddy's Shoes

This morning Simon carried my slippers over from the back door and carefully put them on my feet. He ran back to the door and returned lugging Alan's black shoes. He asked my help in putting them on and walked around the living room wearing them. He was surprisingly good at walking in them, unfortunately I didn't get that recorded, but I did get a short clip of him trying to walk and then trying to put the shoes back on. 

Halloween Part 2

Today we headed over to Roscoe Village to do what we thought was more trick or treating, similar to what we did on Lincoln yesterday. Boy were we wrong. 

There was a parade.

With a marching band, flag core, baton twirlers, fire trucks with sirens and even a classic car with both Romney and Obama riding in the back (ok, maybe they were locals in costume, but how can you be sure?). Tons of kids in costume and every store for a few blocks was giving away candy. We didn't go to the stores for candy but Simon LOVED looking at the other kids in costume and dancing to the marching band. Most of all, Simon loved having his dad back in town.

So many teeth! He got the upper left and lower right eye teeth in a few days ago.
The other two are going to pop any minute.

A serious split bottom lip from tripping and landing full out on the hard wood floor earlier today.
It was bloody, but he was pretty good about it all.

So tired, but still playing!

Most of the day the shirt was hidden under his Spider Man sweater,
but it was so cute I wanted to make sure it was here.