11 months

Tomorrow Andrew will be 11 months old! His hair was getting long and scraggly in the back, so we gave him his first haircut. I've given him little trims, but this was the first time getting out the clippers and cutting it all. It made me a little sad to cut it so short, but it was hard enough to hold him still for clippers, cutting it even with scissors would have pretty much been impossible. He's walking pretty much full time now. He crawls only if the terrain is tricky, or if he's really in a hurry, like when he's trying to escape from mommy getting him dressed. He's quite a social boy. He loves to play mimic games with you or have a baby babble "conversation". He also quite a cuddle bug and holds his arms out to you when he wants to be picked up. Below is a short video of the kids playing with water balloons, and at the end Andrew claps and says "Yay!, which also seems to be his first word. He also says "Yay!" at the end of family prayers when the rest of us say "Amen". Besides walking he also likes to dance with Kara's singing hamster toy. I managed to catch a very little bit of his "hamster dance" on video.

Kara the gymnast

I'm pretty sure she figured this out from watching "The Wiggles", she tries to do handstands too.

Our big move

Between us and the two kids our stuff filled up all three bays of my Dad's garage. I think maybe we have too much stuff.
With the hardest part of our move over the 10 days went by surprisingly fast. We filled up the biggest truck that Uhaul has, also the biggest truck you can drive without a CDL ...

... and headed to our new house! While the guys were unloading I went through and took a few quick pictures of the empty house.

the upstairs bathroom

looking into the dinning area, keys and owners manuals on the kitchen counter

laundry room and downstairs bathroom

from the living room looking into the dinning area out the back door

play room

one of the first things on my list was to replace the shower doors in the bathroom with a curtain

and one of the first things Jeff did was set up the trampoline for Kara

the living room was the first room to be fully unpacked

we're still working on where to hang pictures

Today after church we layed a blanket down in a shady part of the backyard and then sat down with the kids, talked, read, laughed. Then, I pushed the kids on the swings for a bit while Jeff dozed off and had a Sunday cat nap.

After renting and living in apartments for so long its still a little surreal that this is our house. I feel like Mr Martini from "It's A Wonderful Life" when he is asked if he was renting a new house and he laughs and says "You hear what he said? I no more rent! I own the house!"

F is for Fernandez and...

Our First party at our new house. Celebrating Freedom with Family,

Friends,

yummy Food

Flags



Fireworks in the driveway



After we finished with our own fireworks we walked down to the lake and watched as a couple of the lake residents seemed to be competing for best display, lots of the big mortar shells and stuff. It was pretty impresssive! We had a Fun Fourth of July and we are looking forward to doing it again next year, hopefully with warmer weather.

P.S. Jill I hope you don't mind me borrowing your idea.

10 months

Today Andrew is 10 months old! He's got six teeth now. Two top, four bottom and more coming soon.
He's mastered the stairs, going up...

...and going down

He used his last size 3 diaper this morning and is now using size 4, which is the same size Kara wears. He stands more often and has also taken a few steps. They are very wobbly steps, and it's not a mode of transportation for him yet, but I managed to get a video of one of his successful attempts!

not so little brother

On June 7th, when Andrew officially turned 9 months old, he had his 9 months WCC. He weighed in at 20 lbs 13 oz and is 2 feet 5 inches tall! He also popped tooth number three. This one was a top tooth, his left my right. Then a few days later his second top tooth poked through, and another tooth on the bottom just came through as well giving him a grand total of five teeth. Hard to beleive that in a couple months we'll be turning this little cutie around in his car seat.

8 and 9 months

Tomorrow Andrew will be 9 months old! With all the moving madness I never did get around to posting when he turned 8 months, so here's a few highlights.

He sits up well enough he takes his baths with Kara now instead of in the baby tub.

He can feed himself Cheerios.

He made the all important toilet paper discovery.

He is no longer content to sit in the stroller and watch Kara swing, he want to swing too.

He loves anything with buttons, phone, remotes, computer keyboard,video game consoles, etc. He can stand without holding anything for about 5 seconds before he falls over. He is generally a smiling, happy boy who giggle when you tickle his tummy and is a joy and blessing to have in our family!