Festival in the Park

We went to the annual Festival in the Park this weekend. It was hot but a good time. Holden went on his first carnival ride. The first of many I presume. He was pointing at the ride but Jeremy said he didn't think it was as cool as before he got on. He did like the giant slide however.

Holden is pointing to the carnival ride Holden on the carnival ride, not so sure anymore

He loved the giant slide

For Your Enjoyment

A Dancing Fool

Go Big Red!

Holden is all set for college football season. Our very own Lil' Red to help cheer on the Huskers this year.

18 Months

Holden is a year and a half old and since he is fast approaching 19 months I thought I'd try and squeeze in an update. Now everyone seems to think its ok to ask when were having another baby, 18 months must be the magic number. No answer on the homefront yet, we are still on the fence.

He is 23 lbs and 32 inches. He went from the 10% to 50% in height, grew over 4 inches in 6 months. We thought he could reach a lot more things now a days. Everything else, doctor gave him a thumbs up.

He is getting pretty good at using a fork but not so much with the spoon. He is also very good at throwing temper tantrums, actually had his first timeout at home last night for hitting dad and laughing.

He is a fan of music and becoming a picky eater. All of that hard work to make sure he had lots of different kinds of fruits and veggies when he was smaller doesn't matter anymore, we are lucky if he eats his green beans. We also have found out that he doesn't like his food to touch unless he does it. Like put his banana in ketchup.

He is quite the talker and even though probably no one other than Jeremy and I can understand, he has a pretty good vocabulary. I would say only about 12 words are actually understandable to others, and some two syllable words like 'nana' for banana and 'ditty' for kitty and he is pretty good at 'bubble'.

Bath time and playing outdoors are probably tied for favorite activities. The separation anxiety seems to be waning but the shyness with new folks in the house is very strong. Even with friends that have been around since he was itty bitty.

Sorry for the lack of photos, I promise to get some up soon.

I haven't stopped blogging

I have just been overwhelmed with work and blogging is at the bottom of the list of things to do. I have lots to tell just haven't found time to post. But I see the light at the end of the tunnel and hoping that by the end of the week I will be back to some normalcy at work. Even photos haven't been taken recently. I have two decent ones from our last trip to the beach 2 weeks ago. We took Holden to the aquarium, he was not as excited about the fish as we would have expected. He did a lot of quiet observing.Holden wanted to slide down the giant fish's mouth