Trail of Q-tip Destruction!

We're finding that everyday house items have the most entertainment value for all.   Yesterday morning he helped himself to the q-tips and today we played with my Nalgene bottle and some clothes pins.  He got so excited about the clothes-pins he hit himself in the face from all his flapping arm happiness.

Rain Rain Go Away

It was VERY rainy over the weekend and all of last week.  Luckily we had two birthday's to lighten the weekend up! (figuratively, not literally-I'm still low on my weekly vitamin D quota).

First we celebrated Grandma Laurie's birthday on Friday with some pulled pork, angel food cake and tissue paper (see upcoming blog post showcasing that entertainment).

Next up, we celebrated Auntie Angie's birthday on Saturday with some Patrick's deli, cupcakes and a trip to the playground.

Sunday we caught up around the house and went to the toy store to play with the trains. 

Good Morning Birdies

We were up a little after 5 Saturday morning.  Asher likes to sit outside, so I thought that would be a good activity to pass the time until the rest of the world woke up :)

How Stuff Works Episode 1

Episode 1: The Toilet

If you flush the water goes down...ooooooooooooo!

Kitchen Table Fort

We spent a good 15 minutes tonight pulling cushions off the chairs and rearranging in his fort.

Crawling Right Up To 11 Months!

Gooood Morning All!
Asher here to give a report on life as a baby at the Plante house.  Life is getting more and more busy around here and I'm keeping Mom and Dad on their toes with my antics!

I've grown up quite a bit since last time I wrote. My favorite things to do right now are:
- Follow my favorite people throughout the house and ask to be picked up. ( that's right I crawl!- that's not news for most of you though)
- Brush my teeth. I grew my first tooth recently and love to brush it. (Poor Mommy is out one toothbrush though- I liked hers so much I carry it all day when I'm home.)
- Climb on...furniture, pillows piles, chairs, walls, drawers, dish washers, piano benches, boxes...
- Open the spice cabinet and shake all the spices up. They make fun noises!
- Chase the ball with Mommy or Daddy and then steal it from them!
- Open and shut doors/containers as well as empty and sometimes fill containers. The louder the sound and more impressive the mess the better :)
- Read Goodnight Moon over and over and help turn the pages (whether they're ready or not)
- Wave hello to my friends and family! I'm always excited to see them!

Things I do not like are:
- Grass and sand- what awful stuff. I really don't understand why anyone would want to sit on that stuff *shiver*
- Carrots
- Swinging

That's about it! Mom and Dad are lucky that I'm so easy going :)

Well that's all from here! Ill catch back up once I make that 12 Month mark- I'm excited for cake and ice cream! YUM!

Grilling

Tonight Asher helped Casey to grill up some brats. When they came in the house Asher had the tongs in one hand and our push bottle opener in the other :) I took him to put him in his high chair to eat- when I tried to take the tongs (which he was licking) out of his hands I got this reaction. He wouldn't part with them without a fit until halfway through dinner and went through great efforts to keep them up to that point! It was a very interesting behavior we'd never seen before...