Baby on a bed

Thanks for smiling Sydney

We're so happy we celebrated Sam's graduation because Attison stole this necklace and a balloon from Sam to play with and bring home with him. 

coyboy beach hat?

Attison says "Happy Graduation Sam!"

My cousin Sam graduated from High School this year and we celebrated with her at Myrtle Beach. She wasn't too thrilled about the "graduation walk" we made her recreate, but she was happy to grab that smiling baby at the end :)

Things I've eaten

This post is not about how awesome Attison is at eating solid foods (peas, beans, all kinds of fruits, avocado, etc.).  It is about the other things he would like to eat, and has tried to eat, in the past few days.

For example:

• every flip flop
• the wheel of his stroller
• this chair
• the dog's bowl
• the entire vacuum cleaner, but primarily the cord (and every cord he can magically find) *
• the divot in the kitchen floor
• the wheel of his toy (not the colorful, spinning, noise making, features of the toy.  He flips it over and goes to town on the wheels that have been pushed across the carpet and with the help of static electricity, collected a dog's worth of fresh shed Jenny hair.)

Items not pictured:

• piles of spit up
• paper
• carpet
• the sides of his pack n play
• his feet
• the fray on my cut off jeans (Slight shame for admitting to wearing cut off jeans)
• wet (and or soapy) washcloths
• the non-slip bath mat in the tub
• Jenny herself

Life is special with a mobile, orally fixated infant.  Our last night of vacation, Tim and I went out to eat alone and Sarah and Andy were going to nephew-sit.  As we walked out the door, Sarah said "Wait!  Come back!  Watch!"  We had been watching Attison rock and roll and step and fall for about a week, but as we walked away, he put his moves to work and followed us 3' across the living room floor.  "Welp, guess this is the last night of my free life.  Good luck Srh!" I said...and shut the door.  How right I was. 

*If you'd like to talk about an awesome vacuum cleaner, please ask me someday why this is one of the greatest purchases I have ever made. 

Grandma, Poppa John and Srh in da pool

In da pool