Friday, May 21, 2010

in fourteen hundred and ninety-two

Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
Having a new crawler in your house is a lot like having a mini Christopher Columbus-
exploring uncharted waters, discovering previously unknown lands and places.

Unfortunately most of my pictures of this little Columbus turn out like this:A blurry-faced, open-mouthed, I'm-ready-to-eat-that-camera Mom, picture.
Now before you judge my camera skills, why don't you try and take a picture of someone who is rapidly crawling towards you with the intent to drool on your camera.

Let's take a look at what Nicholas has discovered since he began crawling.

The dishwasher: Endless sticky entertainment.

The piano: Experience the music from directly under the feet of the musician.
The shoe tray: The best place to do studies on where Mom and Dad have been. These studies are best conducted with one arm in the air.

The household media: It's really fun to help Dad learn new techniques for game playing by attempting to take his controller from him.
What's more fun than a barrel of monkeys? Eating a barrel of monkeys, of course.
Under the kitchen table: We are beginning to think that Nicholas tosses his food down here on purpose so that he can come back later for a snack.The stairs: So far, he's only made it to the third step. It's time to buy a gate.

6 comments:

Shannon b said...

Yes, it looks like it is gate time. We lived in a one-story house when all of our kids were crawlers, so I never had that worry. But on the other hand it took our kids an extra long time to figure out how to do stairs. :)
He looks so cute exploring all these unknown regions. Have fun!

The Tibbitts said...

What a cutie! The explorer stage is fun and definitely keeps you on your toes. The baby trying to drool on the camera pictures don't get better once they start walking either. In fact, they are faster, so you're lucky if you get more than a blurry mouth in the frame.:) Love the pictures.

Lisa Brown said...

Love this post!! They are so cute, and yet so sneaky of full of trouble at this age :).

Teresa said...

So have the baby locks been installed yet? =) lets hope he waits a long time to start opening doors.
Cute post.

heidi said...

i love Kent's technique to play video games.

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