Crap! It's been a whole year already?
Hard to believe that October is already here again! Ferris will be turning one in just a week!
We've had a great summer. Lots of fun adventures, lots of new tricks up our sleeves!
I think the last post was from just before we went to WI to visit Bri's family and show the little man around.
The WI trip was a blast. Ferris was ridiculously good in the car for 1000mi. trip (2000 roundtrip) We hung out at his parents' cottage for several days and Ferris went on his first boat trip and finally met his awesome Aunt Dawn, Uncle Dave and cousin Michael...actually he met all his awesome extended family a few days later at a beautiful campground owned by Brian's cousins.
He successfully made it through Brian and David's annual business dinner, way past his bedtime( that lasted several hours) without falling asleep OR turning into "that screaming, fussy baby that those crazy parents brought to the nice restaurant at 8pm".
We all had a great time and I think we'll be heading back in the Spring to attend the annual Holidome reunion AND welcome a new cousin for Ferris!
Shortly after we arrived back from WI, Ferris and I packed an overnight bag and headed over to Boston to wait for his new cousin, Camden Latimer Helme to arrive. He's a real cutie.
New baby, of course, meant more visits from Grandmas and Grandpa and Aunt Katie. It’s always wonderful to see the family up here. We're pretty bummed that Michael, Katie and Camden will be leaving Boston later this month back to Texas, but that'll just give us another reason to visit Texas more often.
This Thursday we will be taking Ferris on his first flight...a little anxious about how he'll behave, but we'll be optimistic and hope for the best.
We're heading to Texas. This will be Ferris' first trip there and hopefully he'll get to meet some of our friends that weren't able to make it up here this past year.
It's kind of exciting that this trip also falls close to Ferris' first birthday so I'm sure we'll do a small celebration for him. It'll be great growing up with a birthday that always falls close to a holiday that isn't a big deal, like Thanksgiving, but still gets him a day off from school. :)
Hmmmm, major accomplishments from the past few months...
Ferris started "cruising" the furniture and climbing our stairs in mid-June.
Clapping the hands came soon after.
He can dance and bop his head to music and he LOVES instruments and cans and boxes and the guitar...anything that makes noise. He's getting a mini acoustic guitar for his b-day.
He's a very good imitator. He makes grade A monster noises. He can successfully climb *down* the stairs now and climb off of furniture.
He can stand and take steps without any help, but god help you if you *try* to make him do either...you will get dead weight and nothing more.
He is excellent at turning the bath water on and off. Lucky for us we can just remove the faucet handles.
He's getting pretty good at feeding himself and he's not half bad with a fork or spoon.
He gives hugs and just started to give kisses.
He points at things. He babbles. He says "dada", "mama" and "baba", but for the most part *everything* is "dada"...unless he is crying, then it's all "MAMA MAMA".
Every now and then he sneaks in something like, "bye bye" or "hello", but they are so rare that we almost don't believe he actually said them....or maybe just that he didn't realize what he was saying...even when they were used in proper context.
He loves playing on the playground and going down slides. He loves to be tossed around like a ragdoll. The more precarious and dangerous the more he laughs.
He likes to play a peek-a-boo. he'll shut us in the bathroom with the lights off and then open the door for us to jump out and scare him. again, hysterical laughter.
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