All You Need is Love: 2012

07 June 2012

04 June 2012

The mastery of skills, and other random stuff...

He gets food on his fork without help about half the time while eating,

I just haven't captured that particular feat on film yet...

Yesterday was a big day...

This is a funny little video from a few days ago :)

It rained almost all day yesterday, so while it wasn't necessarily fun being "stuck" inside all day, this was a pretty nice treat at the end of it...

03 June 2012

We went on a "little" walk yesterday...um ya... We followed a great walking trail along the coast to the neighboring coastal town of Port de la Selva. It only took us 1 hour 45 minutes! ;) It really was so beautiful, and the only "hard" thing about it was the heat; not a hard walk at all (except for the 25-lb sleeping Kaian hanging from my body ;)). Here are some pictures!

If you can see close enough, the house to the top left with the orange chairs is our "little place"and this is the beach we normally swim and lounge at!

A nice panorama looking back towards Llanca

We saw some beautiful houses along the way!

The lighthouse we can see at night from our place!

The Mediterranean, instagrammed (pretty idylic)

Enjoying a beer at the beach bar after our long walk!

And doing some exploring, of course (under a stack of chairs :))

On our way to finding lunch we happened upon this Catalan men's choir performing in the middle of the street! Pretty cool!

Pretty nice lunch spot ;)

YUM!

Sweet boy :)

And of course we made a pit-stop at the beach...

Waiting for the bus (thank God) back to Llanca!

My sweet, sweet boy...who is 16 months old today! And took his first independent steps today!

Anywhere from 3-9 of them! Several times! Aaacckkk!!!!

02 June 2012

More instagrams...

(Including the 'half-birthday-suit' ;))

(and by the way, when did my baby become not a baby??)

01 June 2012

Yummy...

Fruit smoothie :D

31 May 2012

New-ish Kaian things

* Says 'oops,' 'ouch,' 'toes,' among others...
* Blows on his 'hot' food (even if it's not necessarily hot anymore ;))
* 'Smells' flowers
* Pushes small coffee tables around
* Takes 1-2 steps
* Stands alone
* When he does the sign for 'please' it's actually the sign for 'cheese'...even if we show him the sign when asking him to say please!
* When he eats something really good, he kinda sucks in and smacks his tongue and lips and makes lots of yummy moaning sounds. And when somethings especially good he calls it "nana" for his favorite food :)
* He goes to 'hide' in another room (or just around the corner) and waits, facing our direction, for us to find him.
* His fine-motor skills and manual dexterity are really quite amazing- Michael taught him how to unscrew a bottle cap, and later that day he took off (unscrewed) the lid of one of his water bottles! Aahhh!

And now for some videos (make sure you have a bit of time on your hands ;))...

This was a favorite indoor activity during our rainy-stuck-inside week...

Silly Kai...

His new favorite word ;)

We played with sock puppets one morning; Kaian wanted one and left it on FOR-EH-VER...it was so funny! He liked making my sock puppet eat toys...

A day at the beach :)...

Still loves clothespins...

This was in the town center in Llanca one afternoon. The next day he picked up a drum Molly and Brian had gotten him in Jamaica and played it 'correctly' for the first time all on his own!