The first part of December we went down to Utah. While we were there we got to take a five generation picture. I was wanting to get this picture since Erik was born and it took us a year to get everyone together. This was the first time that my grandpa and great-grandma had even seen Erik.
We also went to Jamie's graduation. Go Jamie, you rock! Erik did well for a lot of it especially whe he was held by his grandpa. Can you see the resemblance?
This was a picture was at grandpa's family party. It is a great profile of Sandy. Isn't she hot!?!
If only Erik was laughing and smiling, too. This is still a fun picture of the guys.
Those are my sisters Jamie and Laurie. Oh yeah, the goofy looking one is me.
Then there is Erik. His tatoo is from the Jazz basketball game we had gone to the night before. Erik now is doing so much all at once. He is quite the engineer. He knows which buttons to push to get out of his car seat (Don't worry. He's not strong enough to actually push the button down.), he did figure out how to open his baby gate the other day and had it topple down as he was using it for balance, he knows how to open ziploc baggies, and what impresses me most is the way he takes two unrealated objects and figures out their relationship to one another (eg. "This one goes in the other one", "I can bang these two together", and "I can take this apart and but it back together again.") I can just see his mind working.
What is just as impressive is what he says. We have been teaching him signs so he doesn't just say "uhh" all the time and we can figure out what he wants much quicker. Well now he is putting words with those signs. He is consistently saying "more" for everything, which actually sounds like "Mo." I've heard him say please, but not much. Words that he doesn't have signs for include "ball", "dog", "mom", "dad", "eye" and our favorite "No." Signs where he is not yet using words include "milk", "up", and "all done". Lots to keep track of, but he is doing it and amazes us every day.
4 comments:
Fun pictures. I'm so glad you got the 5 generation picture. It will be a treasure. Erik as a big vocabulary for such a youngster. We knew he was a freakin genius!
They are amazing at that age and start getting so many things all of a sudden. I must say he is quite a smart little fellow! and soooooo cute! You guys are doing so great as parents.
That's impressive. It's not very often you get the chance to take a 5 generation picture like that.
Erik definitely has my chubby cheeks.
He was really fascinated by the orchestra at Jamie's graduation. He also wanted to reach out and grab the 'fro of the woman in the row in front of us.
It was a great trip and I was glad to have so much time with the Idaho kids (P,C and E). Thanks to JuLee for letting us hog so much of their time.
See you all at Nick's graduation. Oops that is supposed to be a surprise to him. Shhhh.
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