first steps?

i think so. last night while at the klimas' house (holla!), jack spent a good amount of time practicing his walking. no he's no expert... yet. but! he did take several steps from kim to me or from me to her SOLO! and then he would lunge at whoever was closest - but he's really trying. these steps were preceded by other first tries at our house - most notably with plus (holla squared!) that ended with him lunging into the bottom of the couch. awesome baby only gets awesomer with age.

a little less greco

poor guy got the big snip today. he was wandering around the house like a sailor just off the boat. and he has a "party hat" that he has to wear for TWO WEEKS! poor babe. i'll get a picture to post later.

beach day

went to the beach with the scoob today... he decided to finally try that greatly under appreciated delicacy... sand. at first he was cool with a couple fistfuls in the mouth but soon decided that it was not for him. he did a lot better in the water, though. this was his third time in the water and he was much more excited about it than he has ever been. he only cried once. when i accidently let a wave hit him....

we're back

wow! it's been too long... really. so here's a quick update. we moved! after much drama, many mishaps and just as many chiropractor's visits to work it all out, we are moved into our house! little by little we are fixing small things, painting, and trying to figure out what the previous owners were thinking....

jack is loving having a big carpet area to sit on. and that's about all he'll do on it. sit. the boy has zero interest in crawling but i did see him scoot on his bum to get a block once. once. he will, however, walk like a crazy person if you hold onto his hands for him. he loves it! we "chased" pepe through the house the other day - i use that term very loosely... it was more of a slow mosey but we caught up to him a couple times.

both dogs are stoked about our big backyard that they can run in... pepe kind of does a perimeter check every once in a while and greco is trying his best to sniff out gophers. so far he's done a fantastic job of catching quite a few dirt clods. give that dog an "a" for effort.

matt and i are enjoying having the summer off... we all went camping for a week right after school is out and we're trying to get the most out of our zoo passes. matt is also channeling his inner "mommy" and watching jack during the week when i'm down in del mar. (p.s. you gotta hand it to del mar - they may have money but they still have some wackadoos).

anyway, matt went to vegas for the weekend and so i got some quality scoob time. we went to brunch at the gaare's and the beach with the brockhaus (holla!)! i think a good time was had by all. i'll try and add some pictures to this post when i get them uploaded (and backed up on something, right andrew?)

the waiting game

i'm not particularly good at it.... waiting.  and matt is even worse i think.  so waiting for our new house to close escrow has been excruciating!  apparently, everyone has a "hiccup" in their escrow and ours came late in the game.  now that we are 2 weeks over our original closing date the time crunch is starting to set in.  we have to be out of our current rat palace by sunday.  so....  say a little prayer for the mitches.  

real quick i want to say "congratulations!" to my friend kelly who just had her baby!  kaelyn (i think i spelled that right) elizabeth jacob is here!  you can catch up with them at their blog.  just give them a chance to settle in at home a bit first!

also, as i mentioned before we aren't very good at waiting for things and it must run in the family.  jack saw something he wanted the other day and couldn't wait for it... so introducing...

Greco!  our new boxer puppy.  we love him and hope you will too.  pepe's still working on summoning some love...

firsts

we have been so blessed in the past week!  we've got a lot of firsts happening..  primero.  jack's first easter!  so much fun!  he had a blast watching us run like crazy all over papa's yard from the safety of his new ride.  segundo.  a house! a house! a house!  we opened escrow on a great house and can't even wait to get in there!  beyond exciting!  and tercero.  jack's first little tooth came in!  he had been acting a bit crabby but i wasn't really thinking "tooth" since he's been pretending to be teething for like 4 months.  but i couldn't find soothie quick enough yesterday, stuck my finger in his mouth, and sure enough - tooth #1 was popping through on the bottom!

we're back to school tomorrow after  two awesome weeks of spring break.  eight and a half weeks left until summer... =)

awwww rats... up since 4:30am

so we've been up for a little bit already this morning... our furry friends are back and bolder than ever.  i woke up to the sound of things falling off my table in the living room and then some rummaging noises...  it seems they may like girl scout cookies.  nasty, right?  i know.  so i woke up matt (who apparently can sleep through almost anything) and he went out to investigate the situation.  he didn't see anything at the time (invisible rats?), but i found some incriminating poop - i mean evidence - this morning.  ewwwwww.....  matt said he's gonna take care of it today.  i think that's manly talk for "gonna kill me some rats tonight!"  (i imagine this in a kinda foghorn leghorn voice - i said, i said).  hopefully we sleep better tonight.  =)  also, this is what i imagine the rats look like..  kind of like the scary rats of nimh...  it makes it easier to want to kill them.