christian vs. yogurt

Christian insisted on feeding himself yogurt this morning. It's not often that he lets us feed him these days. By the time he was done I had to laugh at what a mess he had made -- and he had just been showered too. At least I had the sense not to get him dressed for the day till after breakfast.

I think the yogurt definitely won...

one little monkey jumping on the bed

Recently, Christian got a new crib recently and he was super-excited. Well, I should say he finally got a crib. He's been sleeping in a pack'n'play in our room almost his entire life. I thought he'd have a hard time adjusting to life in his own room, but he's doing just fine. If anything, Shane and I are the ones having a hard time adjusting. It's weird not to see him pop up out of his crib in the early hours of the morning begging to sneak into our bed. The other night he wasn't sleeping well and it was kind of fun to have him nestled in between us like old times.

as promised: birthday footage

We took a lot of video and pictures on Christian's big day. Unfortunately, half of them are on other people's cameras so I have some gathering to do. Here's some raw footage:

Cake time. We did sing. Luckily Grandma Larsen got that part on camera. This is the aftermath.

All-time favorite gift..? Just might be. Not sure how we'll top it.

dancing king

from the start, christian has been quick to react to music. but it wasn't until we watched the dance scene from "500 days of summer" that we saw him react so fully to it. he couldn't stop rocking, bouncing and waving his arms in the air. when the scene ended he was so sad! he started whimpering until we backed up the dance scene and started it up again. this probably happened five times before we realized we needed to distract him with something else if we didn't want to watch the movie all day long.

sadly, we didn't capture that day on film but we did pull up the scene on youtube a week later and he still gave us a little bit of a show {i'll just apologize now for my laughter and squeals...couldn't help myself!}:

he had more energy when we turned on the "dancing with the stars" version of "bleeding love," although i'd still stay the "500 days of summer" song is his all-time favorite for now. we're going to have to buy the soundtrack because it makes him happy day or night. {although he still prefers to actually watch the dance scene while he moves to the beat, rather than just listen. too funny.}

{don't you love christian's old school striped shirt? another hand-me-down from shane's babyhood. it kind of reminds me of what ernie wears on sesame street. awesome.}