He is officially bi-pedal

Well, it took him longer than most it seems (14.5 months), but Forest is officially a walker! He has been getting around upright now for about a week. Because he crawled for so long he is pretty sure-footed. He already knew how to get up and down off of things safely... like the couch, beds, stairs, and he's got the ballance thing down pretty well too:)
I am so glad that he is a walker now... it was nice that it took a while, but we were ready. Some of the littlest things are easier now. Like this morning we went on a walk, and while I was setting up his stroller I was able to set him on his feet and free up my hands. Anyway... he's cute and hillarious!!!
Aside from this week of him being super sick... croup, and a cold (that as the Dr. said was borderline bacterial), oh, and a crazy ear infection, we have been having a fun winter! J has been boarding a ton, and I am excited to hit the slopes too.
I am so grateful to be up above the fog this time of year!!! It is nice to be able to get out and enjoy the days in the sun:)
Here are some pictures from this winter...

365 Days & Counting!

Well, he isn't starting Kindergarten... but he has made it to day 365! I know it sounds very cliche, but I can hardly believe that it was only a year ago that we were in the hospital staring in amazement at our little guy!
We had such a fun, successful 1st birthday bash at our house with all of our local friends and family. Lots of eating, drinking, sidewalk chalk drawing, pumpkin painting, sandbox devastation, visiting and just all around fun! I baked the yummiest pumpkin cupcakes from scratch... but I think the most impressive edible treats were the cheeses that I cut into shapes using small cookie cutters. White ghosts and moons, and yellow pumpkins and owls:) Forest could have cared less about them, but everyone else liked them. He didn't plant his face into his little personal cake for the ideal photo-op; instead he daintily batted at the frosting with his finger, and tried small bits of it.
We just love this little guy so much! Happy Birthday Forest!!!

Summer!

Excuses and Re-cap

Well OK, here's the situation, I took the summer off for a 10 week vacation... (It sounds way better when I am singing like the Fresh Prince in my head)
Anyway, excuses are lame, but here is mine: I was super all over the blog thing during the school year last Spring because I used my lunch time at school to do all of my internet things. At school the internet is very fast, and I didn't have a little person grabbing at all of the cords connecting me to the world. So I pretty much took the summer off from any computer work that required that I sit here at the desk for more that a few minutes at a time.
I have a totally new teaching assignment this year, and do not always have a free lunch.. but I am going to try to carve out a little time at home here and there to actually keep up with this thing:)
We had a super fun summer! My mom, Woody, Forest and I flew to Washington for a few days in mid-July and had a great time with our family! We had lots of days at Pinecrest and a few at Sugar Pine lake playing on the beach, splashing and floating in the water and kayaking too:) We camped as usual, and had loads of fun all around.
Forest started army-crawling/scooting when we were in Washington, and is now jamming everywhere using a bonafied crawl. He has 7 teeth... 3 on the bottum and 4 on top. Pretty cute:)
We have been holding on to his infancy and have continued feeding him only mushy home-made baby food until about 2 weeks ago, when I started giving him cut up fruits, veggies and breads. He likes it!
Summer is making a quick escape and we are ready for Fall:) Hopefully next time I update this thing I won't be posting Kindergarten photos;)

We 3 Reeds

The River.....

Tent-trailer baby!