Dancing King

So Eben can officially dance...and he's got some good rhythm too, haha.  Here is a video of his moves and at the end is a short video of Eben doing his funny face while eating.  Enjoy!



And some more pics...these with his favorite toy of the day, the rings.  He literally played with them all day, whenever we were inside today anyway.  He just loves carrying toys around while walking, which he has gotten incredibly good at.  He is now walking about 99% of the time.  He still falls a little, but gets right back up to continue walking.

Big Boy

There are few things that make a little boy look like a big boy more than big boy pajamas.  These PJ's were Dane's first purchase for little Eben before he was born...gotta love them.  (But I suppose the pacifier in most of the pics keep the babyish look in him, haha)

Funny Face

Here are some pictures from a few weeks ago that I never posted...you will notice a couple of pictures of Eben's "Funny Face" - too funny.

 Always pointing at things.

 This is Eben's "Funny Face."  When we ask him to do his funny face, this is what we get.  Hilarious.

 Just an afternoon outside exploring.

Oh the adorable funny face again.

Hello Neglected Blog

So it has been a long time since I posted something on this thing,  mostly due to Eben and my trip to Fargo.  I was very nervous to take Eben on a plane all by myself, but was pleasantly impressed when Eben did a great job.  He was a little wiggly and fussy on the first of four flights, but a perfect little angel on the last three.  He is such a great little guy.

We had a great time in Fargo.  It was so incredibly nice to spend so much time with family and friends.  Dane missed us though and we missed him, so it was great to come back home.

Since I posted all of our Fargo trip pics on Facebook, there's really no point posting them all here, but here are a few of my favorites.

Thank you family and friends for a fantastic time.  We look forward to our next return home in January!

Randomness

So I decided to clean out my small camera and post some pics from it.  Enjoy the lengthy randomness:

 We took Eben to Chuck E. Cheeses for his Birthday.

 We put a token in this one, but it was broken.





















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 I took Eben to a place call My Urban Toddler in Ann Arbor/Saline and it's a great place for kids 0-5 years old.  It has a place in the middle for infants which Eben enjoyed a lot.  Eben also crawled around the toddler area, but since he can't walk, it just wasn't the best place for him.  It's really a great place and I am sure we will go there quite a bit in the winter.

 It has different "buildings" that each have their own themed activity area.  The green one is the "house" play, like kitchen stuff and baby play.

 This is the fine arts building, which explores art and music.

 There is a huge theater for children to put on puppet shows or whatever else they want to do.

There was also a reading building, food market building, fire station, and cafe.

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 We went to the Henry Ford Museum last weekend to the Maker Faire (which was basically a bunch of home inventors showing off their stuff).  This car was awesome.  It was covered in those singing fish and lobsters singing opera. 

 Robot Chess

 We saw the Coke and Mentos guys.  They are on YouTube if you haven't seen this (they have been on many TV shows showing their talent).  Basically putting Mentos into cola causes the cola to shoot up.  The perform it to music.  Pretty fun to see.

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 We took Eben to the Petting Farm which is pretty close to where we live.  He really liked it...except...

(notice the little red dot on his face...it seems that a spider attacked him during the previous night.  He also had a bite in his hairline and a huge one on his hand...sad).

 ...this goat bit his finger, so he sobbed (but no mark, so I think it just scared him).

...and there was a baby goat crying quite a bit, which also scared him...so more tears...

...and every time the rooster cock-a-doodle-doodled, Eben just sobbed.  And the rooster did this many times, so there was a lot of crying at the petting farm, but also a lot of smiles.