Walt and Uncle Troy

Jessica took these pictures(back in December), and I forgot to get these pictures up on the blog. I love the big belly!

more pictures from the weekend

Grandma comes to town

Grandma Ann came in for the weekend to visit. Her and Walt had a lot of quality time together. She loved just playing with him and seeing all of his new "tricks". He loved having her to play with and cuddle with. We visited the Children Museum here in St Louis called the Magic House. It was aweseme! I can't wait to go back.

first time in skates

We took Walt to the outdoor rink at Forest Park last weekend. They had skates his size, but his ankles did not prove strong enough for him to walk well in the skates, which led to a poorer performance on the ice. He kind of liked it. He lasted about 30 minutes in the skates. Gavin (who is 2 1/2) did much better. The movie clip is not the best, turns out I am not good at taking video on skates.

Auto Show 2009

Walt, Bob, and Troy went to the St Louis Auto Show back in Jan ( I know, I know, we are behind in blogging!) Walt enjoyed looking at the shiny cars, and Bob liked seeing the boring stuff like the engines, etc. Bob did manage to lose Walt's wool peacoat. :(

Winter Wonderland

After spending the weekend gloating to our Chicago friends that we didn't have any snow on the ground, fate exacted its revenge in the form of 8 inches over the course of 36 hours. Not that we're complaining - we've been pretty lucky weather-wise so far this year. Well, this winter storm has allowed us some additional family/Walt time. The past two days, Mommy's had snow-days, so it's been non-stop Walt and Mommy. It's been fun, and it turns out that crayons are delicious....

Here are some pictures and a video of Walt playing in the snow:


























It's funny, we just posted a video of Walt talking, and one thing that I've noticed is that he groups uses the same word for two opposite meanings. For example, up will mean both up and down. If you notice, at the end of the video, he says that the snow is hot. Hot means both hot and cold to Walt....

Talking

Walt's been talking quite a bit, and we wanted to capture some of that in a video for everyone to see (or hear):



These are just some of the words that he says regularly. It's a pretty good Walt medley. We've been keeping a running list on our bulletin board, and it's been kind of tough to keep up with his progress.

Why....

Why do kids get stuck in things?

Weekend in Chicago

I have not posted in almost 10 days because Walt was down and out with a sinus infection for about a week. Luckily the medicine really perked him up and he is doing great. We went up to Chicago for Cari and Raym's daughter's baptism. I was honored to be the Godmother. I don't have any pictures from the baptism because I was busy and Bob was hanging with WAlt. But I do have pictures from a get together with the girls at Cari's house. It is amazing that 4 years ago none of us had kids and now all of us do!

Some pictures of Wichard Christmas

Diane sent me a couple pictures from our Christmas 2 weeks ago. I love baxter and walt! And then I look a little crazy at the park. But we did have a great weather weekend. I included another picture of what I see from Walt a lot these days. He is really big into the word and response of the word "UP!"