In Rochester

We spent a week in the east coast in July. It had been a year since we had been back to Rochester, so Stanley spent the time exploring their toys. Papa Doug is now clearly called Papa and Stanley enjoyed reading with him. Lolo (called 'OO') spent a lot of time throwing dice with Stanley and he picking them up by the color.

Papa Doug and Lolo (called 'OO') spent lots of time showing Stanley new and different things. Stanley loved seeing the turkeys in their backyard. And then OO and Papa Doug took Stanley down the street to see more turkeys. Stanley is still talking about the 'turkey' that he saw with OO and Papa. When we got back to San Francisco, Stanley went to the front door and asked to open the door to go see the turkeys. I don't think Stanley understood my joke when I said there were no non-human turkeys left in SF.

Too bad Papa Doug and Lolo don't live close to us, but thankfully we got to see them the following weekend in Santa Barbara. 

 

4th of July

We spent a great 4th of July in Denver. Stanley entertained his cousin Will as you can see in Steve's video. Here are some other photos.

At the 4th of the July parade. Stanley did not really get it. 

Stanley dressed in Steve's old clothes and playing with Steve's
bear. 

What more could a kid want? 

Carefully studying the mechanism

Stanley love to play with the garage. He recruits whomever
will play with him. 

Stanley still has to have items in his hands. Now he has
graduated up to 3 items and learned that his pockets can old things too. 

Random photo--Stanley LOVES choo choo trains. He plays with them where ever we go. Here he is enjoying Ronan's trains.

Tahoe Trip

We have been away for the last 7 of 10 weekends. Here are some backlogged trips.

Tahoe was fantastic and relaxing early in the summery.

Relaxing with Dad

Cool guy!

Airport playground

Chicago airport thoughtfully put a playground in the airport. Since Stanley and I had a 4 hour layover on our way to Rochester, we spent a lot of time at the playground. It was lots of fun except for one small panic moment when I was standing with the luggage and he surprised me by climbing up a small staircase to the toy control tower. Thankfully a mother saw my panic and asked if I was looking for a little blond boy with a blue shirt. She pointed to Stanley who was laughing on the phone in the control tower.

Check out this video of Stanley flying the plane:

Here are some photos:

Driving the luggage trolly

Driving the plane

Flying the plane

Fun with Cousins

Another back logged video post.  This one is from our trip to Colorado over the July 4th weekend.  Stanley and his cousin Will had a lot of fun playing together.  Stanley would run around and surprise Will from all different sides.  Fun times!

Piano with Clyde

A backlog post from our trip to see Paul, Maureen, and Clyde a few weeks ago.  Stanley and Clyde decided to serenade us with a little improvised piano music.  Quite a duet!

We're back...

As you may have noticed, we are really far behind on blogging. Stanley hates when we spend anytime on the computer and after he goes to bed, we do a little work and then crash into bed before doing it again the next day. We'll try to be better.

Besides being gone every weekend for the past 7 weekends, Stanley has really developed his vocabulary.

- Stanley now says 'sentences'. He has the cadence of a sentence where he puts a bunch of babble between up to 3 words per sentence. For example, Papa blah, blah, dah, dah, door, turkey. Translation: Papa Doug took me out the door to go see turkeys. If you understand the context, you can easily figure out what he is saying
- He knows a few colors: pink, red, blue, white, purple. Lolo taught him these by asking him to select different color die. We now walk down the street looking for blue cars or white trucks. Today he even said Blah, Blah, mama, blah, blah blue car. And then he went up to my car and wanted in. Amazing that he actually wanted in the car, he knew which car was mine along a random street of parallel parked cars, and he told me my car was blue.
- Daddy Steve now has his own name 'Addie'.
- Stanley has been very good about telling us when he has 'poop' and then running to get a diaper change.