Learning to Walk

So Miles is 13 1/2 months old now and he still isn't walking with consistency. Wanting to have the most wonderful child ever who excels at everything, this is very perplexing. Anyway, we took this video about a week ago where I am trying to encourage Miles to start walking. Since this video was shot, he has made leaps and bounds in the walking department. It makes me realize that Miles has a little bit of my personality in him. When I saw him learning to crawl he attacked that task in the same way he is learning to walk. He studied it, watched others, learned all the steps individually, thought about it, and then feeling confident that he would succeed, he tries it. How do I know he does this, he has been pacing furniture since October, he has been practicing standing on his own for awhile, and he stood up with out the help of any furniture or people on Sunday. Next up will be a video of him walking on his own.

Miles' birthday continued

Miles is an easy going kid and loves people and other kids, but this video is pretty funny. I guess he doesn't know his own strength.

Miles' Birthday

Miles' first birthday was on Friday February 12th so we had a party for him on Saturday.

Miles plays with his friend Emilia

Miles opens presents. Among others, he got a tie for church and I made him a book of activities

Here is the cake. It was a simple yellow cake with chocolate frosting. A dinosaur candle topped it off. Miles loved all the attention he was getting.

We put a piece of cake in front of him, but he is always skeptical of new food so I needed to feed him a little bit before he decided to go for it.

The cake has been destroyed, but he is still going.

Climbing Stairs

Miles has not started walking yet, but he can climb stairs.

Miles learns to feed himself

Miles will be moving to the next class at daycare soon (he turns 1 in a little over one month) so I have been working all week on getting him to feed himself. Tonight he ate risotto. Then I thought I would give him a break and feed him his dessert which is always yogurt with fruit. Tonight I cut up banana and put it in the yogurt. I guess he has grasped the "feeding himself" thing because he did not like to be fed the bananas. Instead he did this.

YEAH Christmas is over, here are family photos

We got our pictures taken professionally by Jeramie Shoda in November so that we could create some awesome Christmas presents for our parents. Here are just of few pictures from the shoot. I have to say, I have a good looking family.

Christmas..A whirlwind of activity

On Christmas Eve, the cousins re-enacted the nativity to remind us all why we celebrate Christmas. Miles got to play the part of the baby Jesus



Looks like the elves delivered pajamas right before bed


Miles had a crazy Christmas morning


Here we are at my sister's house celebrating Christmas with my family

All I can say is it was a busy day and Miles didn't know what to think of it all, but it was fun to spend his first Christmas with family.