Little Music Man

We have begun to notice that John really likes music. He will start moving around when he sees a commercial with music or a concert on TV. He also loves watching DVD videos with music so Matt decided John would like watching a Dave Matthews concert with him. Sure enough, John watched the concert for almost 45 minutes before falling asleep in his lap.

Here is a video of John watching Matt tap his hands during the concert.

Here's what happened shortly after that.

First Valentine's Day

Emmalie had her friend Shelly Negrete who is a photographer come up to Crop-Paper-Scissors on Saturday to take pictures for families for Valentine's Day. We of course didn't miss the opportunity get a few pictures of John. We even spiked his hair for the occasion!

Crib Video Monitor

Now that John is moving around so much, he has begun to periodically play with the video camera over his crib. It is the funniest thing to see him crawling up to it because it looks like he knows we're watching him!

Here he is moments after making some "adjustments" to the camera.

SNOW!

John had his first experience with some snow today so you know we had to take some pictures. We both laughed when saw him in his bear coat. It reminded us of the movie Christmas Story where Ralphie's brother was all bundled up on the way to school or when Ralphie had to wear the bunny suit.

Last Morning Without Mommy

John is excited to see Mommy tonight when she gets home! He channeled all that excitement into his morning play session. He also realized he can crawl through the door of his playhouse this morning after he accidentally opened the door and rolled a ball through.

I'm ready to play with you Mommy!

Visiting the Baylor Bears

John met Pops (Emmalie's Dad) down at Baylor on Sunday to visit the bears. The bears were inside when we got there, but once they heard John had arrived, they came out to greet him.

John was only slightly curious in the bears and was really more interested in all the other people there .

John Says Dada!

John has said 'Mama' for a little while now and just started really saying 'Dada' consistently this week too. He must have been getting ready for his time with Daddy! I managed to record him saying it to today while we were playing this afternoon.

Dada 1

Dada 2

Playing at the Park

The weather has been so nice here for this time of year so Daddy and John went on a walk to the park. John had so much fun watching all the other kids playing and running around.

After watching the other kids play for a while, we decided John could swing in the little kids swing too. John enjoyed it, but he was really more interested in watching the other kids swinging.

Baylor Basketball Game

John loves to go to basketball games! Today's game was especially fun because the Bears won a close one, and John got to hang out with some other kids. He especially like hanging out with the girls.

After the game, John was still in good spirits while we stocked up on some groceries at HEB . . . most of which was for him anyway!

Daddy & John Time

For those of you who don't know, Emmalie is out of town for a few days so John gets to spend some one-on-one time with Daddy. Here's a picture from the first morning . . . We had to reassure Mommy that everything was alright!
For lunch, John got to eat with Daddy and GiCi (Matt's Mom).

Later that afternoon, John still wasn't feeling well from a week of being sick so Daddy took him to the doctor to be sure everything was alright.