Merry Christmas!

Yes, we are several days delayed on posting!!! We are all up in Reno visiting with Grandma and Grandpa Reeth! Our days are filled with playing and laughing (Miles and his Grandparents) and napping (me and sometimes Tim)! I think the arrangement is working out perfectly for everyone!

hristmas day was a big success. The cousins (Kevin, Jeannie, Cody & Kylie) came down from Incline in a blizzard to spend the afternoon and early evening with us. Miles did a pretty great job with all of the commotion, but needed to have a couple of lower sensory moments when I took him aside to read to him. Miles more than cleaned up on gifts and such with lots of toys and clothes. He has spent the last week on the floor playing with most of them. Such fun!


More postings to come! We have lots more photos and videos of our little man and our vacation!

Week 0 - 42 :: Visually

Time for an update - way past due actually.

9 Months!!!

Wow.

9 months old.

So wonderful!!!!! He has changed so much and so quickly lately. He is really engaged with us, he is learning all sorts of new tricks, and continues to be such a lovely and happy boy.

We had our 9 month well-baby visit this morning. Miles only had to have a flu shot and didn't even cry -- big boy!!!

Here are some of his stats:

• Height: 28.5 inches 55th percentile.
• Weight: 19 lbs 7 ozs. 25th percentile.
• Head: 47.2 cm. 90th percentile.... I think I'll call him "noggin".

He is doing really well. He is advanced on his leg strength and standing up. He is super interactive and chatty. The doctor thinks he looks great and we are thrilled. Just love our little guy so much!

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.