Swing Time!

Halima takes Stanley and Peter to the park and they get to ride in the swings together. She says they love it and laugh and laugh the whole time. Today we stopped by the park and gave Stanley a little hit of swinging. He seemed to enjoy it. Soon he will be strong enough to swing more vigorously, but for now it is just gentle swaying.

I can feed myself!!

I recieved this email from Steve and Stanley. I wanted to share.

Well, sort of. Dad still has to heat the stuff up and get it in the bottle...

Going back home

I'm on my way back home from Taiwan. For sure leaving a 5 month old baby for 5 days was going to be hard. Before I left, I was very curious of the emotions that I would have leaving little Stanley. I was expecting to miss him very much and to be annoyed pumping. Both ended up being very true, but thanks to technology, (pictures, email and amazing pumps) they all were reasonable. Probably the main emotion I had being gone was 'Poor Steve'. I cannot wait to be back and save my dear husband who has had a teething cranky boy on his hands for 5 days. Sounds like Steve had no sleep while I was gone.

Poor tired Steve!!

Strangely for me after a 5 day trip Asia, I feel more rested than normal. Below are some photos of my trip.

Studious Stanley

Trying to catch up to uncle Flounder, I guess...

Getting ready to crawl

Stanley is practicing for some self propelled locomotion soon. Hopefully he waits until Julia gets back from Taiwan.

Happy as a clam

Stanley sure loves sitting in his stroller even if it is in the garage while we are doing chores.

Fun Guy

Stanley has been a pretty fun guy lately.  He is quick to flash a smile when we get home and he first sees us and has been a lot more interactive with his play recently.  He will often just look at each of us and stare us down until we start smiling and then break out in a huge, wide open mouth smile once we lock onto him. 

He's also grabbing things more securely these days.  This is both good and bad.  On the one hand, he doesn't drop the thing he is playing with nearly as frequently.  On the other hand, he will grab onto a toy and swing it about wildly with his arms.  It used to be that the toy would stay on the ground when the arms decided to see how fast they could go up and down, but now the toy goes along for the ride and ends up acting like a small, blunt weapon if you don't get out of the way.  Julia and I can both attest that this stings if you catch it wrong. 

At any rate, we seem to be keeping our heads above water with the sleeping (for the time being) and are really enjoying Stanley's developing personality. 

Oh, and I liked this picture from the other day.