Here's my first try at posting some video... Just a few little snippets of Will taking some steps as well as a little clapping & peek-a-boo after dinner the other night. Please excuse our annoying high pitched voices and/or baby talk. Enjoy the cuteness!

Sesame Street Live

Aubrey's friend, Kendra, got front row tickets for the show... Aubrey loved every minute of it! This was her first live performance of any kind and she got really into applauding at the end of each song and actually starting clapping on her own several times when no one else was, very cute! During the 15 minute intermission, she asked me when it was going to start about 50 times.

Almost show time...

Lots of the characters on stage -- Aubrey got her words mixed up and has been calling them the "Sesame Street Live 'customers'" instead of "characters"

The "customers" would come off the stage and shake hands with the kids and Aubrey was thrilled that Ernie shook her hand. It has been almost a week since we went and A can't atop talking about it or asking if we're going again tomorrow. We've also been acting it out daily and she keeps assigning roles to herslef, me & Will through out the day -- she's usually baby Ernie, I'm Bert & Will is Grover. I had a great time at the show, too b/c I loved watching Aubrey enjoy herself so much. That's one of the best parts of being a mom -- getting to experience life through your children's eyes. Robert's mom was in town and watched Will, so it was fun for us to have some one on one time together, as well.

Playing with shaving cream & food coloring...

... and chocolate pudding

Windy day the the new park

Action shot of A jumping off a dinosaur bone

Compassion

Some of my favorite bloggers, Sophie and Shannon, are in Africa this week visiting children & families that are sponsered by Compassion. Compassion's mission statement is "Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name". I have been very convicted about how much we have and how much I take for granted. I just signed up to sponser a little 3 year old girl from Uganda. My friend Ruth, who already sponsers a child, suggested picking a child the same age & gender as your own child. I thought that was a great idea -- so Aubrey can write letters to her and we can pray for her, etc. Check out Compassion's web site and see how you can sponsor a child in need, too!
Here's little Nomugisha, isn't she cute?

Will crawled by the mirror and caught a glimpse of himself & started smiling and laughing at his reflection

Feeding himself a snack -- I love watching him pick up things with his cute his pointer finger & thumb

We checked out a new park close to us with a large sand area with dinosaur bones. Here's Will in a dinosaur's mouth!

Will flipped a truck over and started spinning a wheel, which amused him for quite a while!

Making some Valentines

Rocking at the Amy's playscape

Excited about her rainbow sprinkles

Nine months!

Will posing as a cow at Amy's Ice cream after his 9 month well check last week. He's doing great and only had to get 1 shot, which seemed so easy after getting 4 at his past 3 appointments. He was 19 lbs. 1 oz and 28 inches long.

Cruising along the picnic table at the park. By the way, Will took his first steps on 1/29 last week, the day he turned 9 months! He's been taking about 3-4 at a time every day now. Hopefully, I'll be able to capture it on film soon. Other than that, he's starting to "talk" more and sounds like he's speaking some foreign language with all his babbling. He's a great eater (unlike Aubrey at his age) and loves picking up food & feeding himself. He also loves to bang on everything and wave his little fists in the air in circles, over and over again while shouting! He's starting to get more hair and his 8th tooth is coming in. He's still not a great napper (he takes 2 short naps a day), but I really don't think he needs much daytime sleep b/c he's happy all day. This weekend when we went to a wedding, he didn't sleep in the car the entire way home, about 2.5 hours. But he didn't cry either. He just played in his car seat the whole time. You'd think that he'd crash in the car if he were sleep deprived. Anyway, we love the little guy so much and are so thankful for him!