Happy First Birthday!

Here are some photos from the Baby Einstein-themed party. He enjoyed opening the presents, but once he got his first toy open he wanted to play instead of open the rest of his presents. And yes, he got his hand in the cake while we were taking the pictures.

Sam's first visit with Santa.

Happy Holidays everyone and here's our little guy before he lost it on Santa's lap. You'd never know that he started crying after these pictures were taken.

But first, here's Sam with a few words of his own:

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I think that's Sam's way of saying "Happy Holidays everyone!" or "Buy me something!" I'm not quite sure which.

At any rate...on with the photos.

Fall fun and a Halloween ... Skunk!?

More pictures.
Enjoy.

As Promised...The Walk

He's covering much more ground during each attempt now, but this is pretty cool stuff.

It's been a while!

Sam is getting so big and darn smart. He's getting into everything now and we've locked and bolted down everything we can that we want him to stay out of. He's an excellent stair climber and he can walk with assistance from either furniture or his little walker toy. (video coming soon!)

He now has six teeth and is eating a variety of new foods. He enjoys feeding himself with a spoon from time to time. Just today he was eating fruit medley (not mashed), part of a pancake and well, his standard mashed foods too. He's not so keen on the macaroni and cheese or any of the other jars of dinner food yet, but he's warming up to them.

It's exciting to see the progress he is making, and though I'm sure he'll be even more of a handful, we're really excited to see him take his first unassisted steps.

And if you would like full size images to make prints of just click the pictures below and (on a PC) right click to download the image and save to your computer.

Enjoy!