Hello Ladies and Happy Wednesday!
It was a beautiful, sunny day in Portland today and all the flowers of spring are blooming. Those (sunny days) do happen here more frequently than you'd think. In fact, I'm now convinced the whole "the weather sucks in Portland" thing is a hoax to keep people from moving here. But, I digress.
So tonight I thought I'd post a couple of recent pictures of Ian, which first required me to download some photos into iPhoto. In the process I realized that we took a few pics of him last weekend (St. Patty's Day) in the new house. Which then lead me to start flipping through my photo album of our Arlington house (we kept an electronic album from the pics we took for the sale). And before I knew it, I was singing Babs and my eyes were welling up with tears. Don't get me wrong, I'm totally stoked about our new house. And, I think you'll find that it's basically the complete opposite of our old house. But, I think there's nothing like the fondness you feel for your first home. It was a cute place, if I do say so myself. And I just loved sitting in the glider chair in Ian's room after he was born. But really, there is no point to this except maybe to say I guess I haven't left my "old" life totally behind...yet.
So, to get back to the original point of this post - Ian recently became a full-blown walker. It was several weeks ago that he actually took his first very unexpected steps while we were sitting in the hallway of our rental house. But after that, no real action for a few weeks until we were in CA over President's Day weekend and something inspired him to really start taking steps at his grandparent's house. Since then, he's quickly gone from our little Speedy G crawler to our Speedy G walker. Boy, it happens fast. For the first couple of weeks he walked like Frankenstein with arms out in front and a smile plastered to his face (clearly very proud of himself). Now he's getting a bit more skilled and is starting to master carrying something while walking. We are proud parents.
2 comments:
Melin he is GORGEOUS! I can't believe how big he looks and he looks so much like you around the eyes! I love his hair :) Can't believe it's been so long since we've seen him (uh, and you!)
Believe me, I totally get the hard to leave the old life behind thing. I get waves of missing DC wildly over here now and then. Especially now that the cherry blossoms are coming out and it's such a gorgeous time of year. And how can we not miss it - it's where we all met! we're awesome!
Ok, that karate chop pose he is in makes me want to steal him -- he is the cutest boy ever!!!! I can't wait to see the little devil again and give him a big squeeze!!!
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