One Month Later...

It's been about a month since we left Los Angeles to become Bostonians and the dust is just beginning to settle, on all of our worldly possessions that are still in storage that is. We're still staying with my parents (gasp) as we look for a house to buy but so far haven't had any luck. Today being Sunday the big "Open House" day I have high hopes that we may see something we like, or don't like- at this point it doesn't really matter, as long as we can move in soon. Although saying that, staying here hasn't been as painful as I had imagined it would be-Nick and I actually got to go out both Friday and Saturday nights as we currently have built in babysitters!

Jack Attack

Here's Mr. Jack after having had his first taste of baby food. He wasn't really happy about it but I made him smile for the photo.

Mini Madness

Annabelle is becoming increasingly more and more entertaining. At 18 months she can say about 40-50 words of English and about another 1,000 words of some crazy language that she invented. Lately she's been really into dancing and has even added leg kicks into her repertoire! She has also recently discovered the world of climbing. She's been climbing all over everything and even managed to climb a flight of stairs yesterday unassisted! Sometimes though the climbing is not so good, like when she thinks it's a good idea to climb up onto the couch to look out the window, or when she feels Jack would like some company in his car seat.

The First Installment

Earlier this morning Miss Annabelle went into the kitchen and pulled out a box of Cheerios and tried to open it. Assuming she wanted a snack I put a few into her Dora the Explorer plastic bowl and then handed it to her. I was feeling very proud as she walked into the living room, carefully balancing the bowl and not spilling a single Cheerio. I then turned around, put the box away and proceeded to follow Annabelle into the living room, I was maybe 4 seconds behind her....which was all the time it took for her to jam a Cheerio into Jack's mouth as he was playing unsuspecting in the exersaucer! Luckily I was able to swoop in and extract said Cheerio from the boy before any damage had occured. He can barely manage to swallow diluted rice cereal so I don't think he's quite ready for Cheerios!