Happy Friday!

I've slacked a bit, again, this week. Between Gymboree and story time and play dates, and outings, my social calendar has been quite full.

In addition, I'm starting to volunteer for Diamonds in the Rough Farm, a retired horse farm in my area (the one I visited the other day). Shockingly and conveniently, they need some help which happens to be exactly my skill set. Crazy, huh? So since I have some extra time in my days, I figured why not? I love horses and it's a good and worthy cause. Wish me lots of luck. :)

Anyway, on to the main event!

Today in 2/28. Turtle will become 10 months old somewhere between today and tomorrow, seeing as how we were cheated out of the 29th this month. In two months, he will be a whole year! Good grief, where has the time gone?

As you can see by the way he is manhandling this tub book from his Auntie L, Turtle is still teething horribly, but has no teeth to show for it.



He is starting to make weird faces at me when I point the camera in his general direction. Kind of like, Mom, we went through this. I've smiled a million times. I'm over it. Be gone.

Needless to say, I'm not listening.



He's been doing great with his walker. He has mastered going forwards now, and actually has a purpose in his travels. He zooms all over the living room and kitchen, sometimes taking a swing by the laundry room and once actually maneuvering down the little hallway to Daddy's office.

This morning, he was was pointing and laughing at Bentley, who was kind of pissed at being put outside.



The walker also allows him to explore fun things, like the cabinets. Good news is, because of the way the walker is designed, he can't actually open any doors or drawers. Yet. He can, however, reach the buttons on the TV. We have started using "No" and redirection, quite often.



And we have a wall!

Here's the living room side. J will be back next week to touch up the trim, but aside from my stencilling work, this side is complete. Woot.



Here's the office side, complete with a close up of the start of my work. J has to paint the trim, and drill the holes for the shelves, but he'll get to that. In the meantime, I am free to play and have my way with it. I love how it looks. It's just what we envisioned. Yay!