Nikki was fortunate to capture his first major crawling on video. Since Friday (the day before he turned 10 months), he has become extremely mobile. He has begun going from a lying down position, to a sitting position, to standing-up, and of course (drum-roll please) crawling. It's time to get baby gates! I'm afraid that I'm going to come home from work one day and he'll be running circles around my feet... I'm sure that day is coming soon enough!

Like a Fish...

Over the past couple of weeks Drew and I have been attending a "Mommy & Me " swim class. It has been a blast to watch him in the water. I hope that I am training up a little fish because if I could, I would waste my summer days in the pool! So in hopes of some day having a pool buddy, we began swim classes on June 11th. The idea for this first session is to teach them how to float and when under water how to roll and float on the surface. He is getting the hang of the floating, but the underwater part seems to be a bit traumatic. Here are some pictures from the first class where he was apparently in so much shock he didn't know he should cry...at least not right away! He has cried the entire time, the past two classes! We go tomorrow for class number 4, hopefully with less tears!

9 Month Check -Up

On Wednesday we took Drew to his nine month check up, where we confirmed that he is indeed growing like a weed. Here are his stats:

Height- 30 inches-95th percentile
Weight - 22 lbs - 75th percentile
Head 18 in- 9oth percentile

Getting Big!

Well it would be an understatement to say we are a little behind in keeping up with Drew's blog. Since he is 9 months old today I thought I would share what he has been up to for the last month.

His biggest accomplishment is that he is finally eating things other than cereal and enjoying getting it everywhere!


Sweet potato mmmmmmmm!



Yeah Cheerios!


He is also on the move quite a bit, although he still isn't crawling. He seems to think that there is nothing worth crawling for that he can't reach by rolling. I think if he has it his way he'll skip the crawling and head straight to walking!

How do you make a kleenex dance?

Answer: put a little boogie in it.

Here's how Drew boogies.

The Monkey That Escaped at the Zoo

Drewbie had his first zoo experience on Tuesday, when Nikki, Heidi, and Greatleaps Preschool went to the Wildlife World Zoo. Over thirty people were there, between the parents and kiddos, and I gained a new respect for what teachers of a preschool encounter. I was able to hang out for a few hours and see Drew's reactions to all the crazy animals. He enjoyed the spider monkeys, and anything that was brightly colored. Although, I didn't get to see it, Nik told me that Drew loved the giraffes. When we play with Drew, we'll stick our tongue out at him, and I think he thought that the giraffes were playing with him, when they stuck their long tongues out to gather food to eat. Anyway, we had a ball! (PS-Mom, did you notice what exhibit we are standing near in the picture above?)

My First Road Trip!

Last weekend we took Drew on his first road trip to San Diego. We met the rest of the Palmer family there for a long weekend. We had a blast enjoying the weather and experiencing a bunch of "firsts" with the Drewbie. Here are just a few pictures of our adventures!

We took Drew on his first Carousel ride!

We went to the beach!

I think we wore the kid out!