Pillowfight!

He found this chair cushion to be terribly entertaining.  Mommy scored a lucky focus shot!

Noodles!

My son is learning to feed himself with a spoon.  He's doing very well, but still prefers his fingers.  Here he's tackling a bowl of noodle soup sans broth.

Turning 1

It's difficult to believe that nearly a year has passed.  I'm trying to soak up the fun of watching my son enter his Toddlerhood...so I let him smash a cake.  He wasn't so sure at first, dipping a tentative finger in the sticky stuff called icing.  Daddy had to hide the candle between the layers of cake to try to get kiddo to dig in.  Eventually he did.  (He was much more interested in crawling, off the backdrop, on to Mom-mom's WHITE carpet.  Fortunately, three adults were able to keep him--and his mess!--contained!)

Not so sure about this.   Usually I get yelled at for making a mess or knocking things over....

Taking a taste

The end result, just before he got in the bathtub.

Such an awesome kid!

lil A

Yesterday was Homecoming at the University of Delaware. I marched in Alumni band (way fun) and dragged my DH along to shoot the day. I promptly stole back the camera after our halftime show--and between the two of us, we shot nearly 500 pics from 8am until about 4 pm. Needless to say, I'm still processing those. (I did manage to get a bunch up on Facebook, but that's just uploading....for the blog I really want to edit them properly.)

I haven't shot in quite some time (even the weekly belly pictures have turned into two- or three-week or monthly- pictures). Too tired, too busy, uninspired...whatever the excuse was at the time. Yesterday was really the first time I've had my camera out in about 2 months. And boy did I fall in love again! I had THINGS to shoot! (A football game, a college marching band, friends, kids, etc.) And the weather was great (well, it was homecoming, so it RAINED ALL DAY like it does every year, but that meant great overcast skies!) And this was really the first test for my 28-135 IS lens.....most of the other umpteen million shots I've taken with that have been stills or with flash. When I look past the grain of shooting in 800, I got some great shots. Very happy.

So, to whet your appetite, here's my friend's son A. He is such a ham (it makes me really excited to be having a baby, knowing they'll be this cute!) Here he's peeking through a railing in the bleachers....seconds later he ducked under and was modeling for me like a pro! (Also got some great shots of him splashing in the puddles in the parking lot afterwards!)

Thanks for sharing your kid with me, C., and for letting me share his cuteness with the world!