it's officially OFFICIAL

yep. it's true. we have a FULL FLEDGED WALKER. it is so cute. and wobbly. i love it.

Harvard Here We COME!!!

Disclaimer: the voice that you hear in this video is not mine. I don't know whose voice is speaking.

Note to self: never speak while recording. I always talk so exaggerated with Graham and my gosh, it sounds horrible. To agree certainly will not hurt my feelings. ha. chad won't stop making fun of me.

We Officially Have a Crawler

This weekend Graham started to actually crawl, not army crawl, not inchworm everywhere...but actually CRAWL. Now he is everywhere and into EVERYTHING!! He also waves too!

Graham, we love you so much!! We are so proud of everything you do and couldn't more blessed. You are so incredibly smart and we know you are going to achieve big things.

Rockin to the Music

He loves music just like his mommy and daddy. We are so proud. :)

My Silly Monkeys

open up and say ahhhhhh

in the last post, i talked about graham eating and opening wide for me while "saying" ahhhhh....we were able to catch it on video Tuesday night while feeding him sweet potatoes. So cute!

such entertainment...

...our little boy is to us. it's so much fun to do stuff and have him mock us. Sorry for sounding so vulgar in the video. I love how the video captures the many expressions that g always makes.

Tonight we tried out Squash and I think this may be his favorite so far. He barely let anything slip out of his mouth!

So far we have tried:

Rice Cereal - Jan. 8, 2009

Sweet Potatoes - Jan. 19, 2009

Bananas - Jan. 21, 2009

Green Beans - Jan. 26, 2009

Prunes - Jan. 31, 2009

Peas - Feb. 6, 2009

Carrots - Feb. 11, 2009

Applesauce - Feb 14, 2009

Squash - Feb. 18, 2009

And he likes them all. I'm so happy for that too because I certainly don't want him being a picky eater like his mommy. Now, people tell me...when do I start giving him stage 2 foods?

So...this past weekend while we were in Texarkana visiting with my family, Graham learned how to scream. We both thought it was soooo cute and funny. That was then. now, our ears are constantly ringing because he just loves to scream. all the time. just for the heck of it.

All is great with us! Graham is getting bigger everyday and is so much fun! He's turning into such a little boy and it's bittersweet! He loves to stand on his legs. I will lay him on his back and pull him into a seated position and he starts trying to push up cause he wants to stand. so I will help him up and he will stand on his legs for a good minute. his legs are getting so strong!

Below is how I found Graham sleeping in his chair. guess the tv must have been too loud for his taste.

g is screaming so i better go!

Sweet Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes...

look at graham holding my arm with his feet!! so funny!!!

....yum yum yum.

Sweet Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes

Gimme Gimme Some.

That's the song I sang when I started Graham on his FIRST veggie. Yep, we started with sweet potatoes and my lil oinker LOVED them. I thought he would give me a funny look as soon as I put it in his mouth, but nope. nothing. nada. just gobble gobble gobble. it was so incredibly adorable to watch him eat them because he was seriously smacking like crazy!

I don't know if you can tell in the video but he was holding my hand and the spoon trying to direct it into his mouth. so cute!! it was really hard trying to feed and video at the same time.

Well, my first night without my lil boy went pretty well despite the fact that I called mom just about every hour just to ask what he was doing. Chad and I missed him sooooo much and we were so happy to have him back home with us Sunday evening. I honestly don't know how much I am going to be able to do that. It was just too hard. My brother told me that I would do fine and that I will get to the point to where I am calling mom all of the time asking for her to take him when he gets into his terrible twos. I said, "Obviously we are talking about two different babies because my son is an angel and always will be." haha! Let's just hope he doesn't turn out to be like me. HELL ON WHEELS! ha!

I am so excited because Steven (my brother) is on his way home from Iraq. Oh, I am so stinkin happy!! He hasn't met his nephew yet and I just KNOW they are going to love each other so much! He has to go to Kansas for a week for his out-processing and then he will head down to Texarkana. I am going to go to Texarkana for about 5 days in early February to see him. He and Graham have a lot of catching up to do.

Until next time, lots of love from The Neipling's.