A household of bipeds

Well, I think it's official. We are finally a household of people that know how to walk. Noah has finally gotten the hang of it and spends a good bit of his mobile time up on two feet. He's still not that great at it, but he's progressing quickly. As I observed him this evening, it seems like walking is almost his first choice. He has also gotten really good at standing up without holding onto anything.




It's hard to tell, but here's one of him actually walking.


The only problem in all of this is that Noah is such a shrimp! He has the hardest time keeping his pants on. Hopefully he'll start putting some meat on those bones soon.


Hannah and Noah are starting to play (and fight) together a lot more now. Here they are playing doctor. My guess is that Noah will be an otolaryngologist (I'm not sure how that is supposed to be spelled, the spell check didn't help, and I don't feel like getting out the dictionary...sorry.) when he grows up!


They like to race up the stairs too. When Noah wins he delights in slamming the gate shut so that nobody else can get up.


Okay, so we can't have a post without talking about Hannah! She just wouldn't have it.


As most of you probably know, Hannah and Noah are obsessed with their rags. These are just cloth diapers that we've had around since they were babies. (No...we did not use cloth diapers, we just used them a lot for cleaning up their messes.) Anyway, Hannah does this cute thing where she holds them up to her head while she sucks on her thumb. Very cute. It reminds me of Linus.


Now, all you parents out there, I'm sure you'll agree with me on this one. I don't know why we spend so much money giving kids all of these toys. They turn anything, and I mean anything, into a toy. Here's Hannah sitting in one of her toy storage baskets and playing with the top off of a can of mousse (or some such hair care product).


And, lest you think I staged this little affair, I have documented proof that I did not.


Wow, that was a lot of pictures. I think I'm done with that for tonight.

For those who are trying to keep track of my travel schedule for work, I wouldn't. My trip that was originally scheduled for Nov 30 that got moved to Dec 7 has now been moved to Dec 14. My other trip that was scheduled for Dec 12 has been moved to "hopefully before the end of the year," which translates to "sometime in January." Who knows!!

Oh, and another major step for us. We have decided to part ways with TiVo. We have had TiVo since we switched to DirecTV back in 2004. We were immediately sold on it, have become very spoiled, and have converted several others. Well, the problem now is that our TiVo box is starting to die, DirecTV doesn't issue TiVo brand boxes anymore, and there is no way for us to get high definition programming on a TiVo box without going to cable (which I refuse to do). So, on Monday we will be getting a DirecTV hi-def DVR. The DVRs have come a long way since they first came out. They seem to do pretty much everything a TiVo does now, with just a couple of exceptions. I think we'll survive. I'm excited about all of the HD content, and especially about the ability to record it.