Hills of Hayward

Anders started pushing chairs around at 12th month and now he can walk a long way without falling down. 

I used to take Anders to Starbucks when he was 7 months old.  I could always steal some time to work since he loved to watch people and always fell asleep there.  Nowadays, he was so active that he couldn’t stay still in the stroller for more than 10 minutes.  There is no way for me to work at Starbucks anymore.

Just a few days ago, I found a new trick.  He is now one year old and can drink cow’s milk.  I gave him a Vanilla milk and he loved it so much.  That milk kept him quiet for 30 minutes.  :)

First word: Ommmm
Definition: I am going to eat this.

Second word: AAAAOOOOO
Definition: I hear our neighbor’s dog.

I wonder when he will get to “mama” or “dada”.

Anders taking his first shower.

When we got back from our road trip to Texas to see my dad, we found that Anders had almost started walking.

Couple of little priceless moments from the last week:

• Trying to convince Christine that the nusery rhyme was in fact “Itchy Bitchy Spider”
• Anders points at things he wants to examine
• Taking Anders on his first hiking adventure and he demands to have Mom hold him when we go uphills
• Anders demands to drink what we drink during meals
• Pulling a bait and switch by giving Anders our cup, but filled with soymilk
• Tivo’ing every single second of NBC Olympic coverage on 4 channels
• Staying up to wee hours watching the Olympics on Tivo
• Cassandra and Mike’s Amia Bakery Tres Leches cake… yum
• Christine insisting that the Hayward Zuchini festival was pronounced ZU-CHEE-NEE
• Fried zuchini sticks at the festival were out of this world
• Anders now can kneel on the ground
• Playing catch with Anders, he sometimes throws the ball back