Bath Time

After 6 months of screaming through baths Malcolm has decided its not half bad. Here he is actually enjoying his bath and splashing around. He made a huge mess...guess its time to move to the tub now.

Car Crazy

So Bear and his Papa spent Sunday morning (and afternoon) at the SF Car Show. It's one of the biggest car shows in the country, and our second year in a row attending. Wyatt loves to pick his favorite cars, then climb in and pretend like he's driving. This year he gravitated towards the big SUVs (hopefully not a trend). He also really liked the 1 Series BMW Convertible (because he loves convertibles) and the Mercedes C class (because it has a really cool flip-up navigation system). He also really liked the orange convertible Camaro (because it's orange AND a convertible)...Uncle Sean would be proud of that one. Here's a photo of him checking out the latest Hummer H3.

Lazy Saturday

Wondering what the boys did this morning? Well here is a little snapshot of each: Malcolm practiced his crawling - he's getting very close. He is already mobile if you count his face plant crawling technique of scooting across the floor on his big fat cheek. Wyatt, among other things, watered "plants" in the sink. We also had coffee and breakfast at the coffee shop where Bo entertained Wyatt and Malcolm with her dancing and visited friends Ellie and Alyia at the playground.

Crissy Field

The tide pools at Crissy Field are a toddler's paradise...a toddler who, unlike our toddler, likes to get dirty. Wyatt didn't want to splash in the water or even take his shoes off but he still had a great time building sandcastles, sailing his boat and making sand coffee. And despite his best efforts he even got a little bit dirty! The highlight of the day was when he saw a blimp, boat, airplane and helicopter all at the same time. Malcolm loved hanging on the blanket with mama and watching the puppy dogs run by. He did not, however, like getting sprayed by doggies coming out of the water and shaking.

Day Out With Mama

Wyatt has been going through a very clingy phase lately. On Friday I took advantage of having some help from Gissela and spent some one-on-one time with the little guy. We started out the morning at our local coffee shop where he requested his own cup of decaf with soy milk -- luckily they are very used to having kids there and whipped him up a hot cup of his own "decaf" which in reality was steamed milk. He loved it and requested another this morning. At the coffee shop we ran in to Wyatt's buddy Stella so we decided to invite her on our outing to the zoo. We saw LOTS of animals but Wyatt's favorite part of the zoo remains the train. His second favorite part is now the carousel.

About half way through our trip to the zoo Wyatt heard a baby crying and he asked in a very worried tone, "where is Malcolm?" I don't think he minded that we'd left him at home, we had a fun afternoon together.

Malcolm Update

Here are some fun facts about Malcolm at six months of age:

He loves to snuggle and be held.

His favorite game to play is “make mama and papa think I’m suffocating.” He carefully places his giraffe blanket across his face and starts flailing arms and legs erratically as if gasping for air. At the last minute he removes the blanket, smiles, takes a breath and places it neatly across his entire face repeating the process. He has done this for months now. It took me a few weeks to figure out he was doing this intentionally and actually enjoys the feeling of having the blanket on his face. At that point I finally stopped removing it for him when I realized that he can be trusted to remove it himself.

His second favorite thing to do is staring at Wyatt. He laughs hysterically at his brother when he dances/runs around with papa.

He sucks on the corners of his giraffe blanket. He loves this so much that sometimes he even tries to slide a corner of the blanket in his mouth while nursing. He gets VERY frustrated when this causes the suction seal to break preventing milk from coming out.

His least favorite activity is bath time. He screams at the top of his lungs from the second his toe touches the water until you take him out.

He doesn’t cry often but when he does he has the loudest cry of any baby I’ve ever heard. Strangers have even commented on it.

He is very determined to be mobile and scoots around by scrunching his legs up, doing a side face plant, straightening his legs and sliding.

He loves Laverne and despite having been scratched in the face by her once, continues to reach for her tail every time she passes by.

6 Months Old

Happy Birthday Mr. Moose! Today he had his first solid food meal. Well...actually it was his second solid food experience if you count the real estate flyer he ate over the weekend. Today he had some rice cereal and water. He really enjoyed meal time and sitting in the high chair. He wasn't too interested in getting food in his mouth but immediately grabbed the spoon and started trying to "feed" himself. He loved smearing the food on his face and high chair. Needless to say, it was straight from the high chair to the bath, his least favorite activity.