Ludacris

on our road trip this past weekend to visit some of my old friends from college days, lee tells me, "so, i was listening to (mumbled a band's name) the other day". "Ludacris?" i say, because i think that's what i heard. "no, hahaha," says lee. "i said Black Crows. i can't get Round Here out of my head". i am very confused. "do you mean Counting Crows??" "yes" he says.

a week of will

reading sweetly in the front yard (granted this precious moment only lasted for a minute or two - but i'll take it!)

last tuesday he figured out he could stand in his crib. this is him wondering if this means he will not have to take naps anymore. nice try. we went through 3 or 4 trying days of lots of crying during naptime. look at that tired face. he was also cutting his fifth tooth at the time. we're doing a lot better this week!

will LOVES bathtime. except i'm bad about getting soap in his eyes. any tricks? right now i have to lay him down in the tub on his big sponge to rinse the soap out of his hair.

hey, look at us! this was yesterday. we met daddy at the park for lunch.

will's crawl

will has become very mobile in the past 7 days. this video was taken about a week ago. he still crawls like this, he's just faster now. he prefers cruising along anything he can hold onto, including walls and unstable rocking chairs.

i love you through and through

will really does love books. (aren't you proud, grandma brown?) he loves pictures. you can see him flipping the pages for me in this video. lately, he's gotten very serious about his job of flipping pages that he doesn't give me time to read what's on the page.

baby einstein joy

will gets so excited everytime he hears the baby einstein jingle and sees that caterpillar move across the screen to smile at him.

will loves his naps - NOT!

this is how i found will yesterday during his morning nap. at least he was sleeping. yesterday afternoon, he figured out how to stand in his crib - no sleeping then, but there was lots of crying!

mommy's day

my first mother's day - see me with my chunky monkey standing behind my first mother's day gift - a 12 ft. long picnic table built by my dear hubby. how am I gonna top that on father's day? we had some family over for a spaghetti picnic. the weather was gorgeous. nothing like eating on china outdoors - makes the food taste so much better.

he decided to start moving a little. he liked it.

this is one of will's funny grins - just love it.

life is beautiful

a few nights ago, lee and i watched Life is Beautiful. we didn't know much about it before watching it. i don't want to spoil it if you want to watch it yourself. what a movie

it's interesting because we watched half of it one night and the last half the next night. it was like watching two different movies. i laughed the first night. the second night i could not stop crying. i almost could not finish the movie i was that upset. i came so close to walking out of the room. i don't think i've ever cried so hard in my life.

this movie made me realize how good i have it and how spoiled i am. it is a reminder of the evil of the holocaust and a great picture of sacrifice and love. get your kleenex for the last half.

mmm...books

Will loves to "read".

Apparently, he likes to eat books too.

those teeth are sharp.

my little ham

these are my favorite will pictures to date.
we had fun outside today in our front yard.
i love the way he smiles for the camera in the last shot - he's my little ham.