nap marks

Eamon loves burrowing his head into the rails of his crib.  He does this more often during his nap than at night.  He'll wake up with a rather deep and reddish indentation on his forehead.  Not visible in these pictures is the corresponding indent upon the top of his head.  I love his rosy cheeks in these pictures and his eyes that are still trying to open and wake up.

16 months

Easter Sunday

reading with Gpa Smith

checking out the piggies with H and F

cousins

before bathtime

a few days shy of 14 months

Dear Eamon, Eamonster, Bubsy, Bubzipan, Bubsaboodle, Lovebug, Sunshine, and Eams,

You have about six teeth coming in right now. All your canines and your left molars have been causing you some terrible pain. You get a little whiny and you stick pretty much everything you can get your hands on in your mouth. You still sleep like a dream at night, though, so we'll try not to complain too much.

You sure make a lot of noise and a lot of different noises, but we have noticed you know the following words and now use them on a daily basis: hi, bah (ball), bahbah (bottle or sippy), Dada or Daddy (that one's pretty obvious), bye bye. You love waving hi and bye; your kiss blowing skills remain about the same--your hand can't seem to get blown away from your mouth, so there it stays as you blow, and sometimes whistle.

You love playing at the park and we go there almost every day now that we're so close to one. You have a lot more fun at the park if there are other kids there. You are still so gregarious and outgoing. You love interacting with babies your age all the way up to your gramparents. You gave Nana the sweetest kiss a few weeks ago, by the way. It was so precious.

You love to climb and you're so strong. Your favorite thing in your room is a box full of diapers. You climb on and off that thing at least fifty times a day. You also love to swim. You love bath-time and when we took you swimming with Finn a week ago, you did not want to get out at the end. You splashed and kicked and drank lots and lots of water. We certainly have a fish on our hands.

We love you, Eamon, and hope this helps us all remember a little bit about what a sweetheart you are at 14 months.

years from 6 February 2010

Two Years Ago

One Year Ago

Here's to many more years. Love you, Andrew.
Happy Anniversary tomorrow!

at the park

13 months and almost over the wood-chip eating phase.

Eamon loves being outside. Snow fell between the taking of the above photo and today, so today's activities at the park included: snow-eating, snow-slurping, and snow-snarfing. He loves the stuff and became rather peeved when we left after only 10 minutes. His hands were freezing, though! He won't keep his mittens on. Lucky him, even more snow came down tonight. We'll see how tomorrow looks and hope to play outside once again.

one year

Eamon is one! His birthday was two days ago and we celebrated with family the night before his birthday.

Andrew was lovely and took care of Eamon so I didn't have to deal with him underfoot while I made his cake and several dozen cupcakes. Stupidly, I still spaced adding any baking soda to the first batch. I was frustrated, but pressed on and made a few more batches. It's hard to bake with a lot of noise and people. But I am spoiled because I got to use two ovens. So luxurious.

We had a matching game with pictures of Eamon from almost every month. Everyone had to match the month with the picture: not an easy game. I even had to double-check my key for the five and six month pictures.

After that little game, we did a spin on a Korean tradition. We placed several of Eamon's favorite objects on the floor and had him select one to tell his fortune. The objects and what we said they meant were as follows:

• whistle: musically inclined
• telephone: gregarious and a socialite
• book: intelligent, scholarly, and bookish
  
• goggles: athletic
• stethoscope: doctor
• play pizza: foodie and/or chef

And what did Eamon choose? He went straight for the book, one of his favorites, Who's House is This? We even gave him some extra time to see if he'd go for something else, but he stuck with the book. We'll see how intelligent he really becomes.

Then he got spoiled. He got oodles and oodles of presents from everyone. He had a lot of help from me in unwrapping the presents, but he really didn't do too badly of a job. It was good practice for Christmas unwrapping. Mostly, he kept clapping and looking around at everyone for approval and attention--such a ham.

After opening all the presents, we sang to him and I ended up blowing out his candle. I thought he would be able to do it since he can whistle and has been practicing blowing kisses, but no luck. All he wanted to do was touch the candle.

Caketime: he loved filling his fingers with frosting. Some of it got all the way to his mouth, but not tons. He had fun flinging it all around.

The rest of the party for Eamon consisted of following Finley around and giving him loves. Eamon could be a professional loves giver. He seriously has talent. He gives love pats and kisses. So sweet.

It was a great day and a fun night. We are so blessed for all the love and support we receive from all our family members. Our baby is one and we're still alive and we love him more than ever.

The pictures are out of any sort of order I'd like, but no more fussing. Here they are:

Eamon giving loves.

(Or is he practicing giving a blessing? Haha.)

More loves.

Holding his birthday balloon from G and G Clyde.

The cake.

The cupcakes.

Having fun making a mess, like always.