Video backlog!

Here are a few recent Simon videos... first, Simon feeding himself Cheerios!

Eating all by self! from Anne Reynolds on Vimeo.

Next, doing a little climbing over Mommy's legs:

Climbing from Anne Reynolds on Vimeo.

And finally, playing with a new toy! (With some bonus close-up shots at the end, as he climbed up to see what I was doing with the camera.)

Simon's work bench from Anne Reynolds on Vimeo.

Scenes from a move

Photos from the week of our move:

First, playing at "Aunt" Diane's house, where we stayed for a few days before the move (thank you!)



Sleeping at Diane's in his Pack N Play - he wasn't thrilled to be sleeping in it all the time at first, but settled in all right.


On the plane (taken by 5-year-old Zoe, our very talkative neighbor across the aisle). Simon was thankfully asleep!


First lunch at Potbelly's not far from our apartment - Simon likes pickles!


And when we arrived, Simon started figuring out how to pull himself up on things! The suitcase was the perfect height for him to reach up and pull up on.

Photo backlog!

We're finally getting settled in and have located the cables that connect the camera to the computer, and have a reliable internet connection! So without further ado, here are some of the many Simon photos from the past two (crazy) weeks!

First, with a very cool gift from our friend Chad, who works at GE (who sponsored the Olympics) - the Olympics mascot, Quatchi!


Hey, what are you doin' up there? (Sporting a new 9-month sleeper outfit - he's getting so big!)


Showing an interest in the family business. (He opted for "The Logic of Chemical Synthesis" and "Frontier Orbitals and Organic Chemical Reactions.")


With the coolest going away gift ever (sorry to anyone else who's ever given me one - this one takes the cake) -- a beautiful quilt made by Peter, the director of the Old South Ringers. He even hand-dyed the fabrics, and the ringers all signed the squares! It will find a place on our wall in our future home, but I had to get one photo of Simon with it. :)


And fun with daddy:


More during-and-post-move photos and videos to come!

Quick update from WI

We made it! We're in Wisconsin and survived the journey. Simon was an absolute champ on the flight... he drank a whole bottle on takeoff and then slept for more than half the flight.

More when we are a bit more settled!

up on the knees

Simon's getting closer to actually crawling. He's really perfected the "slide forward on the belly" move, and can get to where he wants to go pretty fast. But this past week we've seen him really up on his hands and knees a lot more. Very seldom is there forward progress, and he always reverts back to the sliding, but he's starting to figure the crawling thing out.

Today as we were packing, he was pulling himself up on to his knees to get inside one of the containers I was putting things in!


Nope, it definitely won't be long now. :)

more fun gifts

Simon got another wonderful gift recently - a bib with his name on it! Susana brought it all the way from Spain, where it came from a store in Barcelona that sells only bibs with baby names on them.


I think he likes it very much!

Mommy and Simon weekend 2

Troy went to Milwaukee again this past weekend, to scope out houses. Simon and I were supposed to go with him, but then Simon got kind of sniffly and snorty on Thursday and it turned in to a full-blown cold on Friday, so we stayed home. Fortunately Friday was the worst of it and he was significantly better on Saturday, and even better on Sunday.

He and I had a lot of fun together over the weekend, helped by the fact that it was BEAUTIFUL out on Saturday (low 70s!) We got out for a walk, which included an iced treat for Mommy:



(I tried to get him to smile for that photo, but he was very focused on his rings.)

We also worked more on drinking from a sippy cup, which he's getting better at!


He took a nice nap covered in a blanket his Great-Grandma Peggy knitted for him (and his Grandma Karen embroidered his name on):


And to demonstrate how nice and long his hair is getting, I put it in a mohawk :)


All in all, we had lots of fun!