a Sunday hike up Table Mountain from Artist Point

J can wave now too! :)

some recent pictures

J found my canning rings, they entertained him for quite a while!



and he tried to drink from an empty canning jar :)



Lil Hot Rod... getting into things :)



i will try to get a video up of this... J likes to wrestle with his Bear :)



this is the day we heard a loud bang and came in to find that he had pulled the bowl of strawberries off the coffee table... and now is holding it up like "oh hey... look what i found"

look at me daddy!!!

J just suddenly figured out how to clap!

Getting into things :)

yesterday i found J here :) it reminded me of hearing about lish getting stuck under the highchair and of pictures i've seen of various babies under their crib. :)



and here's a video of J actually crawling... he's a pro now!

"Good morning Viet- Nashua!!!!" ~ Michael Scott

how J starts his mornings most days :)...

i say bye-bye to daddy when he crawls into a silver thing and it rolls away with him... and disappears behind the fence... i'm not sure what daddy does behind the fence all day...

what a fun family portrait :)

i walked into the living room on tuesday to find this... and he was standing in his crib yesterday... it's coming!!! :) ohh and since he sits himself up like a pro now, naps are getting a little more difficult. yesterday i went into check on him and he was sitting with his face smashed against the pack-n-play's netted side, he had obviously just passed out sitting up...

our garden is doing well :) we had baby turnips for dinner on thursday and have been eating salads with our own lettuce which has been delicious (who knew? right, dad?)

For your viewing pleasure: "J Drags Himself" (monday)

my birthday gift from jordan :)

i spent part of the 4th of july making a tall bike :)

jordan brought home two frames from "the hub" for me
we stripped them down, (took off the brakes, seats handlebars and the like)
then went to the shop and i grinded the parts we didn't need off
then jordan taught me how to weld (which was awesome!!!) i finally got to actually use the mask i saw my dad wear and played in growing up :) sorry we didn't get any pictures of that stage...


and here's my very own tall bike

as a little disclaimer... jordan did have to do some touch up welding... it's way easier to do a bunch of little circles in a row on a flat surface then on tubes... what a great gift though!!! quality time combined with new learning by my favorite teacher :)