Some new additions

Lately we have some new additions around here- with the grandparents in town- here are a few pictures.

The rocking horse (Den's parents bought this for Will and he loves it!) - he rocks so hard the horse moves backwards as he goes.

Another thing is as he rocks he like to have his milk and blankets- but this does impede the rocking a little.

FISH! We went to the aquarium and Will loved it- everything on his level. We didn't bring any fish home though- as many of you know me and pets don't mix well together.

This may be difficult to see- but the scar on his nose is a new addition- Will had a nasty fall and so has his first scar at 19 months- sniff sniff.
Will's blankets: All of a sudden Will has decided to bond with two blankets- he carries them around all day- dragging them behind him. Its so cute but of course he gets upset when they can't go outside or in the high chair or in the bath with him. I know life is tough for a one year old :). 

A Will Snuggle

A Will snuggle: scrunch your legs up as far as you can on mom and lean in so as to get as close as possible. I love it :)

Bathtime w/ friends

I have written before about these required childhood photos that every child must endure and well here is another one for Will- we don't want him to miss one. :) This is the quintessential bath with other kids of the opposite sex- so cute and this age- weird and inappropriate 10 years from now. (Why do we do this?) Anyway Wendy, Vera and Will so love the bath together and as you can see were in constant motion splashing. And now of course its documented online so he can be embarrassed years from now- aren't we great parents? :)

Feeding Himself

I think I'm ready for this- Will loves feeding himself. You give him a spoon and a bowl and he is happy- problem is he is definitely a novice at this (we are still working on getting the spoon upright- he flips it over so only sticky food works for now). So as you can see its kind of a mess and somedays I think oh so cute and other days I think, ugh can I just feed you? He literally will disgustedly wave off some food that I offer to feed him, but then if I put it in his bowl and let him eat it himself he will happily spill ...I mean eat it himself.

Our Little Patient

Sadly this is an image we have seen a lot over the last month. This is Will in the hospital - he is sitting with Dennis watching a Baby Einstein (totally a lifesaver in the hospital) while he gets his antibiotic. Let me just say - tethering a one year old to an IV pole is a little challenging (big understatement). During our first hospitalization he had to keep his IV in 24/7- I had to keep unwrapping him at night while he "slept" (there was not much sleeping done by any of us). But I should also say I am thankful for the care he received. Living internationally we can worry about medical care- but it was great.

I didn't take many pictures- I wasn't sure if this was something I should document but I did snap this picture- he looked so cute in his hospital pjs.

We're Still Here!

I know many of you may have given up hope on this blog- goodness knows I almost did too.  Its been 2 months since I posted- wow! Well a lot has happened. Let's see- we went to Thailand, Will got pneumonia and was in the hospital for 3 days then we came home, my parents came (yea woo hoo- so much fun- see pic), we started our move to a new apartment, Will got sick again (cabbing to the hospital with a cold cloth over his head trying to bring his 103-104 fever down- ah!) then a 4 day hospital stay (I will write more about these later), then back to our new apartment to continue moving, (meanwhile our landlord continues to try and squeeze as much money out of us- he's like a cartoon villian- you know not that scary but annoying), then I got a cold, and now we are all finally healthy and almost settled. Phew! Oh and somehow during the move we lost our camera memory card AND the cord that connects it to the computer to load pictures. AIYO! (as they say here- aka: Oh MY!) So for now the only pics I can post are the ones taken with the computer camera (hence the above picture) but we will prevail and get more pics up here somehow, someway.  Don't give up on us.... 

Will and Vera

Will has a couple of little girlfriends here and Vera is one of his favorite friends. They both are very active and love to climb and get into EVERYTHING! When they play together (or should I say next to each other) they are in constant motion. Here they are riding together in a double stroller- Vera's mom Jenny had a meeting so I was watching the two of them and took them on a walk together. Now I usually get lots of questions when its just me and Will out (i.e. He looks Chinese? Is his father Chinese? etc.) but the sight of me pushing these two cute kids just left many speechless. Though some did ask about our relationship. Basically these two together made quite a scene- I mean of course they would- look at those beautiful faces!

Having a snack...