My talented boy

Tristan can pull him self up to stand. :)

10 months old tomorrow!

Tristans new car seat arrived today. He was way to big for his new baby car seat. When did this happen? what happened to my new born baby? What do I do with all this baby stuff? He is so big and it happened so fast. I love him more each day. I hope he has a happy 10 month birthday.

My talented boy 3.

Last time I took Tristan to the doctor he was so impressed with his fine motor skills and how well he communicates. He says and understands mama, dada, ball, yummy, hi and bye (with waving), BEEP (while poking things), batman and a few other things. The doctor also said it looked like he was a little behind on his gross motor skills :( It turns out his trunk was weak but we have been doing exercises to help him out. The best way to help him was to help him sit up it uses almost all the the right muscles.A few days ago he started sitting up on his own I cant even tell you how happy and proud I was and now he is doing to so often I was able to get it on camera.

Happy halloween

Happy first Halloween Tristan!

Baby shower! Weddings! New baby! Army crawling!

I knew when I started this blog that I would eventually forget to post regularly. I didn't realize it would happen so quickly! Since my last post so much has happened. As my sister's due date got closer I threw her a baby shower:

Our family attended two weddings. Shane and Lori's wedding was so fun, colorful and lively... just like them. I loved Lori's bright blue dress and that they had all the guests come in costume: Ben and Rachel's wedding in Austin TX was a lovely garden wedding with a really cool cupcake bar, and the next day, in the spirt of Texas, they took us to a really neat BBQ place called the Salt Lick:
Tristan has hosted and gone to several play dates. He is so social. He really likes his little friends:My sister had her sweet baby girl this last weekend. The baby is so cute and I am so happy I got to be there when she was born:Tristan has perfected army crawling He is getting really fast.

My talented boy part 2.

Tristan has been imitating sounds really well lately he has had the dada moma and Hi down for a while but now when dan say bye bye baby he replies baahhh when I say do you want some red raspberries I get a rrahh earlyer this week he imitated the word yummy perfectly I think he is going to be a early talker but I don't have that on video yet I do have this video from last week of him clapping He is so cute and so messy. I think he is so smart I am so proud of him

Our island party

As you can see our party went really well.

My talented boy.

Tristan doing old Mac Donald.

teething

Friday I took T to the doctor because he has been waking up in the night a lot and tugging at his ears a little. I was pretty sure he didn't have an ear infection but I wanted to make sure. His ears where fine but he has teeth coming in! I can really see one today it feels pretty sharp.

What I'm Reading Now.

I just finished Dead Until Dark. This is the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse novels, the books the HBO series True Blood is based on. The reason I picked up this book is my fourteen year old niece said she wanted to read it. My niece and I have a thing where I buy and read a book and then pass it on to her and then if they make a movie of the book we go see it. The last series we did this with was the Twilight series. I love that she is an avid reader and I love having long conversations with her about the books. My sister doesn't always love the arrangement, it seems like she objects to most of the books we read. But in the end we almost always convince her that the books are age appropriate. A part of me really thinks that people censor things from their kids too much. What harm can come from reading something that is a little spicy and dangerous? It makes the read just that much more exciting! That said, this is the first time I am NOT going to pass the book on. I just can't give my sweet little niece a book filled with murder, rape and child molestation. It is going to be hard to keep my cool aunt status after refusing to let her read a book, but I guess there is always a line and this book is it. Just because I don't think these books aren't good for a fourteen year old doesn't mean I don't think they are okay for me! I am already almost done with the second one.

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Tristan really makes us so happy.Today he mastered waving hello. He is pretty good at giving a high five too and of course he still plays a mean game of peek a boo.

Tristan's playdate

Yesterday Tristan had all his friends over for the first time. It was baby city.

What I'm Reading Now 3

Hunter's run was a pretty awesome sci fi book. The planet the story takes place on is settled by Brazilians and Mexicans from earth. My husbands family is from Brazil so it was neat for me to read all the citys named after real Brazilian places ( the planets name is sau paulo). It was also neat to have a sci fi hero that wasn't your typical caucasian character. I thought the writing was really good, with three great writers working on it i guess it would have to be. As you know from my last post George RR martin is my fave. I am Really excited because i found out the series of him I LOVE is getting turned into an HBO show. They already cast one of my favorite actresses for it . I don't think there is any way I can NOT like the show. Any way I have already started reading my next book "dead untill dark" the book true blood is based on I hope I like it as much as Hunters run.

Tristan is changing so much! This week he has started making mama and dada sounds, he learned to clap his hands, he likes to brush his gums while I brush my teeth, and he has started to refuse to eat baby food. He wants to feed himself, so he has been needing A LOT more baths!

Tomorrow I'm hosting a mother's group meetup at our house. Tristan always has so much fun playing with the other babies!

peek a boo

Tristan's Fave thing to do lately is play peek a book. He doesn't ever seem to get sick of it

Cousins first birthday

Tristan got invited to a party last weekend he had so much fun.

Tristan loves his cousin .

Best teddy bear ever

Someone looks just like his daddy.

What I'm Reading Now 2

Last night I finished reading Inside Straight. The book is number 18 of the Wild Card series. I haven't read all of them yet but I gotta say I am a sucker for long series. I really love getting to know the world and characters. These books are not the best I have read but I will come back cause I'm hooked and gotta read em all. I guess it's the collector personality I have. I think my husband is the opposite of me. Even with a great series he starts to get bored near the end and is ready for it to be over. The Wild Card series is a brain child of George R. R. Martin who has been one of my top favorite writers in the last few years. His series A Song of Ice and Fire is the best. I love love love it. So pretty much anything he writes I will read.

Tristan 6 1/2 months

Tristan is 6 1/2 months old today. He has been hanging out with his cousins and Nana spears who was in town for a visit. I weighed him on a scale and it said he is 16.5 pounds and he is leaning to sit on his own enjoying swimming and getting used to me sticking his hands and feet in clay, paint and cement to better document this stage of his life.He continues to be the happiest baby I have ever seen I don't know how we got so lucky.

Happy half birthday Tristan!

What I'm Reading Now

I just finished reading Death's Daughter by Amber Benson. It took me a really long time to read because I don't have as much time to read as I used to. But the family and I went to the UCLA Book Fair and met Amber Benson and got a signed copy of her book. I'd always liked her on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I was surprised how much I enjoyed her book. It was an easy read, and went down like candy.


I also read Cedric Hollows in Dial M for Magic by my friend Sina Grace. It was really good! I had no idea Sina was such a pervert... well, maybe I did. I knew he was a good writer because he wrote a comic book series called Books With Pictures, about me and the other employees of Hi De Ho Comics. But his writing has gotten even better since then (even though you can't really have a subject as good as me).

P.S. I learned how to make links to other websites while making this post!

My husband Danny rules

He is so sweet and ever so handsome. And I love that he loves my favorite movie, "Event Horizon". I have decided that I am going to make him chicken sopa every day for a whole week just to show him how much I love him.

God my husband is the best... I love him so.

Tristan tried carrots for the first time. I think he likes um.

Tristan is going to be half a year old on the 12th. Its going by so fast and he is really getting big.The first picture is from when we took him home from the hospital and the second is from this weekend .

Tristan is getting so BIG! This week he has really started sitting up better. He really loves drinking out of cups and he had his first taste of solid food. mmmm rice cereal!

Our summer part two

Who ever said having a baby ruins your social life has not seen our calendar. We have had such a busy couple of weeks. I hosted a dinner birthday party for our friends Will and Linus. I went to a house cooling party for my best friend Melanie and her room mate Katie. Went to our friend Holly's art show. Had brunch with Auntie Jess and soon to be Uncle Chris.Got some gardening done. Had coffee with my friend Rachel. Went on a shopping trip with my sister. Saw my friend Molly's band The Lost Patrol play at the Whiskey http://www.thelostpatrol.com/ Their CD is quite good by the way. Had dinner and scrabble night with Manash and then we hit the road to go back to northern California for Peter and Grace's wedding . The wedding was so wonderful it was really worth the trip. It was really lovely and Tristan got to meet most of his family on the Lee side includeing two little ones really close to his age.