Birthday cake!

Aaaand the big finale--Victor's birthday cake!! Is he going to smash it in confusion?? Hellooo, who do you think you're talking about here! Victor knows exactly what to do with food, shove it into his mouth asap!! Too bad he grabs the wrong end! I hope this video isn't too dark, we don't have good lighting in our sun room. Victor had a nice birthday today (for the most part). He slept in all the way until 8:30, he got to go grocery shopping (his favorite, just like daddy!), he got to play with all sorts of people: Mommy & Daddy, Grammy, Auntie Laura & Vito, Great-Grandma & Great-Grandpa, Stephanie, Aunt Beth, Uncle David, and cousins Sarah and Davy!! So many people to feed him!! We had ham, macs & cheese, and green bean casserole, plus fresh fruit and rolls from a bakery. Beth made the adorable little elephant cake from scratch. The downsides to the day: taking a header right into the edge of the coffee table and getting a giant goose egg & bruise; and having so much fun naptime went to the wayside! Hopefully he will sleep well tonight despite the overstimulation and the sore noggin!! Happy birthday to my sweet little boy :)

Still busy

So busy, in fact, he doesn't even have time to break for a snack, he has to do it on the run! He still eats everything he can get his grubby little hands on. He's great at feeding himself, and his favorite foods are things like blueberries that are easy to pick up and eat. I still spoon feed him some things like cottage cheese or baby foods (the baby foods is just me being to lazy to cook and puree veggies, mostly). Sometimes he tries to use the spoon--he'll take it out of my hand when it's on the way to his mouth, suck the food out of it (sometimes after flinging the food over his shoulder), then put the spoon back into the bowl (usually wrong end in first), then relinquish the spoon so I can fill it back up for him. So, that part still needs a bit of work. He's good at begging, though. You can't eat a sandwich in front of him, he wants to take a bite (and he does take big bites right out of them!). Pretty much any food you eat in front of them he wants to have, too! Poor Damian never gets a whole banana for breakfast. Breakfast is a good one, though. He gets 6 oz. of formula plus 3/4 cup of baby oatmeal mixed with applesauce. Yum! That's the only way he'll eat formula (smart baby, that stuff tastes awful!). Hopefully he will be freed from the formula at his one year check up, but we shall see...

Busy busy

So many things to do, so many circles to walk around in! He is a busy little man all day long. Knock things off the table. Empty out the drawers. Put small things into larger things. Lift lids. Take small things out of larger things. Bang things together. Chew on things. Rip things to shreds. Move things from one room to the next. Someone has to do it, and Victor is determined that it shall get done!!

Drunken Sailor

Walking down the hallway, trying to eat my gum box. He has been trying to eat a lot of paper lately, especially his books (and mine). I wonder if he's getting enough fiber in his diet?

Trash can game

Yes, I know, it's been a while since I've posted, but to make up for it, now I have a bunch of movie goodies! In case you missed the memo, my little man is walking now and he is getting so much better at it! This is a video from a few days ago, and he's walking so much better already! Appropriate timing for this, as today is Victor's first birthday! I can't believe it's been a year already--so cliche but so true, they grow so fast!! He has eleven teeth, and he's approximately 28 inches tall (we'll get the official measurement on tuesday at his checkup). (Interestingly, at one year of age I was just under 30 inches, my sister was just over 30 inches, and my brother was a whopping 32 inches. I imagine Damian was around or over 32 as well--we have a short little baby so far!)

Anyways, this is an example of the "trash can game" at my parents' house, only the lid is already open (he opened it himself earlier). Enjoy!