The birthday boy!

A whole year old. Who knew he'd make it this far?


As spring rolls around, Milo's thoughts turn to the outside: he loves to play on slides and touch plants and eat sticks and just generally be out of doors.

But never fear, there are good things about inside, too:



But we already knew that Milo rocks, right?

Sitting like big man

Milo is sick again - started out like the stomach flu again, though it hasn't been too vomit-y since then. This means his parents (one of whom is enjoying the same illness) do not have a lot of energy for recording his mostly still enormously cute antics. So here's one from not too long ago: Milo sitting on a stool. I guess stool sitting is pretty fun.

Milo and Jenny slide

It doesn't come through well in the video, but Milo loves sliding a whole lot. He will be very excited when he's old enough that we let him slide without at least having a hand on him.

Saturday in the park with Milo

We had beautiful weather on Saturday, and spent some time at the park. Enough time that I can milk it for several posts.

Eleven month update (a bit belated)

At eleven months, Milo has become a pointer. Generally, we tell him the name of the thing he's pointing at. "That's Mommy, Milo." "That's the light again, Milo." "That's the outside world." He spent a solid two or three weeks of month ten not feeling well: stomach flu, ear infection, still ear infection, diarrhea from the antibiotics - but he seems fine now. His appetite's certainly come back strong; he's very interested in anything we're eating. Tonight, in addition to baby food style sweet potatoes, he had some cheese, toast with hummus, pear, and a couple of bites of taco.

For a while it seemed like he had finally learned a trick we could show off to people: we could ask him where our noses were and he would identify them, but when we took the show on the road, so to speak, it fizzled. I think we may have confused him by trying to teach him 'mouth'.