Happy First Birthday Asher!

(you can enlarge this pic to get a better look!)

More pictures to come of his special day and his party.

and we've been doing lots of this, too

so far this summer

First ice cream

learning about cicadas

staying up late playing kickball on the summer solstice

Uncle Dave came for a visit

Standing, WALKING (!), and wrestling

just like annie

Tessa is a little obsessed with curly hair (because Annie has it!)  And the other day she asked to have some curls put in.  And of course that called for a photo shoot!

She has fans. 

Asher's Room

I finished hemming the curtains in Asher's room this weekend (and got the straight pins out of them that have been at baby level for the past 6 months - bad mommy!) so I think I can call it done.

And child proof.

11 months

I cannot believe that he is almost 1!  With all of our travels/birthday/celebrations 10 months passed quickly by.  And I am late at posting this, and so at 11 months + a few extra days, he has begun to stand for short amounts of time (very short amounts!).

And now we have 4 teeth!  And still climbing, crawling and just a little less drooling than before.  He can repeat sounds pretty well - Mama, Dada, Tessa (which sounds like Dada, but I KNOW it's Tessa), and book.  And he LOVES books.  Other loves are musical instruments which all get played multiple times a day and his cars.

23 more days until his first birthday!

Tessa is (almost) four in Paris