Get up, Stand up....

This weekend was a big milestone for our little man. Miles started practicing standing unassisted. Without any provocation from Mom or Dad. While standing and holding on to his radio flyer cart, Miles let go of the bar, first with one hand, steadied himself, then let go with the other. He stood, much to our amazement perfectly straight for a good 3-4 seconds. I rushed over to get my arms close enough to slow his inevitable fall. Miles gently plopped down into a sitting position. We were amazed. Quickly we fired-up the video camera and caught several practice sessions. The first to get on video is our favorite as it has Miles giggling at his own success in balancing himself.

What a wonderful experience. Our Miles is teaching himself.

Video from the Holiday Train

As promised, here are 2 quick videos from the Holiday train last Saturday night... clearly going to be an annual tradition!!!

Scoot, scoot

Miles still isn't up on all fours, but he is getting faster and faster! The other day he startled us as he darted a couple feet to get something that he really wanted. I imagine this kid is going to TAKE OFF once he figures out how....

"I promise I've been nice!!!"

Miles met Santa for the first time on Tuesday at the Intuit Winter Wonderland party for kids. Tim brought Miles down for about an hour, and the 3 of us walked through the party. They had tons of crafts set up for the kids including stuffing your own teddy bear, making a teddy-bear-t-shirt, painting maracas or clay figurines, building gingerbread houses etc... The only thing Miles could get into (he was a little young for all the crafts) was the maracas --- and there was no painting, just chewing. Tim and I did do the bear (frog) and the t-shirt mostly to commemorate the event, but we really enjoyed the party and the week-day time as a family. It's wonderful to work for a company, that despite these economic times, can still put something small scale together for us "working parents" I really do enjoy working for Intuit.

I can stand!!!

Peekaboo

Baptism Video

It's taken me a while to get the video software loaded onto my new work computer - but I've done it!

Here is the video of Miles being Baptized.