More phone pics

At Gymboree:



Close encounter with a girl. I'm pretty sure that blur is his hand about to haul off and smack her.


First birthday breakfast celebration:

That's carrot cake. After all his practice blowing after we sang Happy Birthday, he totally choked. I'm pretty sure he thought we were nuts.


There's something almost artistic about how badly phone pictures come out.



Outside B&N before it opened, on a Sunday. It was kind of a bad morning, but I can't remember why.




At the park. I can't see these on screen as I'm taking them; it's too bright out.



I was remembering the other day how we used to watch him sleep, for hours! in hope of a dreaming smile. Now they're easy to come by. No less wonderful, though.


At the park. We found two abandoned hula hoops in the grass. He held on to one end and I held on to the other, and we walked around like that for awhile. Then he played a game where he used them to stand up - but I wasn't holding the other end. He wouldn't stand up without holding them, so I think he thought he needed them. Anyway, it was thrilling.



He's been taking a few steps, one and a half really, every once in a great while. He seems ecstatic when it happens, and then he refuses to do it again. That's his personality. He has to work it out first.