well, we’re in Mexico. C’est Magnifique! C’est la vie! Oui oui oui!! Oh hoh hoh hoh monsuer! Tres Bien! Ohhh la la la la! It’s hot and wonderful down here. Art ate his first sand this morning, and tried his first papaya.

The three of us are gonna be away on vacation for the next week in Mexico (woo hoo!). So don’t expect any blog updates for a while… however, expect loads of photos and video when we return. see you then……….ben and jessica and arturo.

 

Today Art was in the living room with Jessica and I when he took three tiny steps. After that he got really excited and would shoot up and down standing in place or fall into our arms over and over again. But he did take his first steps! It’s a big day in the world of Arthur and his proud parents.

  

This is Art with his new friend, Riley (almost 2). Riley comes over every
Thursday to hang out with his his Momma, Marcy, while she takes care
of Art. Well, she takes care of both of them. Looks like they’re
having fun to me!

 
 
  

Art has been standing up on his own for a few weeks now. And boy is he tired!!! But seriously, he can stand unassisted AND play with a toy without tipping over! We’re going to Mexico the first week of November and we kept thinking he would be walking by then. At this rate it could go either way. He seemed to try and take a step the other day, but it was so small it really could have been our imagination. Mostly, if he’s standing and we try to encourage him to come to us he just gets down and crawls. Any bets on whether he will cross the border on two feet?

I’m trying out YouTube on the blog. Kinda clunky, but loads lots faster. This is a four minute video of art fetching, clapping, destroying, and making wonderful sucking noises. You can watch this video below on the blog, or go directly to YouTube by clicking this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_lSNV72JBw

Art was sitting on my lap this morning looking around and drooling on himself and I said, “Clap hands!”. And he did. It was the surest I’ve been that he understands language. Then I said, “Where’s Carma?” (our cat). And then he pointed to her! In-fricken-credible. It made him so happy, too.

I tell ya’, it’s super fun watching Art figure things out. He can stand on his own now and it looks like a magic trick. Where are wires? And just today he put the ball in the top of the toy and after I showed him how he hammered it through. He used the hammer! And he would take the ball out of the bottom of the toy, where it spits out, and put it back on top and hammered it through AGAIN! It’s like a development EXPLOSION around here!!!