First Attempts

This new camera is definitely a great deal more difficult to use. There are more complicated settings than you can shake a tripod at. Tom fiddled with some settings and got a few nice shots. Click on an image to see a larger size.

Our Early Christmas Present...

To ourselves. The Canon 20D. We are uber-excited. We also ordered the EF 17-40mm f/4 zoom lens and the EF 50mm f/1.4 prime lens.

Chuggin A Coke, New Words

Some of Adrian's latest:

• Yeay! (as he claps his hands)
• Going upstairs, whether you want him to or not
• Playing peek-a-boo and just saying "boo" when he uncovers his eyes
• Saying and waving "bye-bye" when he leaves school... and during the entire trip home
• Turning on all his noise making toys to their "keep going until the batteries run out" settings -- ALL of them at ONCE
• Pointing to his nose and saying "no"
• Up (with hands up) and "dow" (with hands down)
• Feeding Mom (this means stuffing things into her mouth until she can't even breathe -- then laughing at her)

I want CANDY

Don't ask me why, but Adrian's Halloween candy is safely stored in his little pumpkin bag... in his bathroom. One night I gave him a few M&M's after he ate a good dinner.

Occasionally, when he doesn't eat all his dinner, I will let him finish it while he is taking a bath.

I did not realize that he would remember where the candy was after ONLY ONE OCCURRENCE of getting a few pieces in the bathtub.

So last night I am TRYING to feed him some chicken in the bathtub since he did not finish it downstairs. He pushes it away and I think, "OK, he's just not hungry."

HAH. Yeah, right.

He stood up, pointed right at the candy basket, and started making his little babble that means "I want that".

He also kept saying "cracker?" (his general request for food) and when I tried to give him a chicken bite, he would cry, stand up, and point to the candy.

Ohhhhhhh boy.

That Was Then, This Is Now

From a black-haired squinty-eyed helpless newborn to a running, talking, blond-haired boy with a ton of personality in just 16 months. Wow.

Here is what Adrian is saying these days:

• Go! (as he throws something)
• On! Off! (as he flips the light switch)
• Thank you
• There you go
• Hi (very occasionally)
• OK
• Up (holding his hands up in the air)
• Uh-oh (just GUESS when he says that)
• No!
• Oma (Dutch for Grandma, what we call Tom's Mother)
• Cracker (his word for food)
• Cookie (his other word for food)
• I know
• More (apparently only for M&M's according to Oma)
• Wow