Year in Rewind

For those of you thinking I had fallen off the blog wagon already, I am happy to prove you wrong! I have merely been catching up for lost time with this monstrosity of a post. It has been several nights (and a new computer) in the making, but the end result is worth it, I think. I hope you enjoy some of the highlights of our past year with Henry.

June and July 2008. Uncle Corey came to visit from Breckenridge, CO. He lives in Austin now, and we are happy to have him closer! Henry started school in July. Here he is looking handsome, and feeling excited about the occasion.




August 2008. Henry tried solids! Aside from the super cute pics, it was rather anticlimactic. He took to solids slowly, until I started making his food. (Can't say I blame him much; some of the stuff in the jars is just weird.) Considering he will be eating us out of house and home soon enough, I should probably be grateful for that. He is great little eater these days; likes what he likes, but always willing to try something new.



September 2008. One of my dearest friends and college roommates, Susana, married one of my best friends from high school, David. Before their wedding in New Jersey, we enjoyed a few days in Newport, Rhode Island.






October 2008. We visited the Birds in Westminster, CO. Meggan and Brady welcomed their first child, Sloan Bentley Bird in December of 2008. Impressively, Meggan was still running in October. While the boys partook of football festivities, Meg and Kim worked the Netflix queue. Henry, meanwhile, snuggled in his new Patagonia fleece -so stinkin' cute.




November 2008. Henry is officially on the move. (This video was actually taken in October, when he started crawling, but for the sake of the completeness of my timeline, we'll pretend it was November.) The second video really was taken in November. Just one of those purely joyful moments I never want to forget.







December 2008. Merry Christmas! We are so thankful for our many, many blessings. Henry had a great time exploring the Christmas tree and opening his gifts. A couple days after Christmas, the three of us had a great time breaking in one of Daddy's presents -a hiking pack, which is clearly comfortable enough to nap in!







January 2009. Happy New Year! Here is Henry looking longingly out the kitchen window at the new swing on his swingset. For a change, it was too cold in Texas to play outside.


February 2009. Kim completed her fourth marathon in Austin, Texas. It was nothing short of torture, but seeing Ben and Henry at the finish made it all worth it!

The starting line...


Henry looking concerned after seeing Mom at Mile 22.5.


March 2009. Kim and Henry visited Susana and David in NYC. Unfortunately, Ben had to stay home and study.

The plane ride to NYC... It was H's seventh time on a plane, but his first time flying solo with mom. Both did great!


Central Park... Cold, but beautiful.







"The Keyboard" (and then some) at FAO Schwarz.





April 2009. Henry Hubert Scott turns one!





We also traveled to Wichita Falls (a six hour car drive!) for the first time. We visited GG, as well as the resting place of Henry's namesake, my grandfather, Hubert Griffith.

Henry and GG...


Henry and Papa...

I Almost Forgot!

Ben has gotten so good at video editing these days. If you haven't already seen the clips on You Tube, here you go.

Has It Really Been a Year?!?

Let me begin by apologizing. I am embarrassed that more than a year has passed since my last blog. If you have children, you understand (although many of you are inspirational "bloggers" who put me to shame, nonetheless); if you don't have children, at the risk of sounding cliche (and maybe a little -okay exactly -like a Johnson & Johnson commercial), let me just say, baby changes everything. Being a mother, a wife, and a professional officially whips my tail multiple times in the same day (all in the best imaginable way possible, of course). I am also not so tech-savvy. But, whatever... excuses, excuses, excuses. I know what you all really want to see are pictures of Henry, which I can handle uploading. And I love reading and seeing pictures on everyone else's blog, so I figure it's only fair I share our joy in return. What's a few more minutes of lost sleep these days anyway? Certainly a small price to pay for keeping in touch with our far-away friends. So, that said, I am committed (or at least seriously well intentioned) to blogging once a week. If you haven't given up on us already, please stay tuned.

Now that I have fed my guilt monster, on to Henry... He is 15 mos. old now! Wild. He has been walking since 10 mos., so I consider him an old-timer toddler at this point. I know every first time mother thinks every age (with the exception of the first six weeks) is the best age, but truly this child grows more entertaining by the day. At 15 mos.:

• He can show you his muscles and how old he is.
• He can pat his tummy, rub his head, stomp his feet, wiggle his fingers and toes -all in a book he loves to read right now. (It is called Clap Your Hands, and I highly recommend it.)
  
• He can also moo like a cow, bark like a dog, baa like a sheep, quack like a duck, and roar like a lion, to name just a few.
  
• He loves camels, but I don’t know what sound they make. (I think the spit, but not sure I want to start that.)
  
• He also loves tractors and points to airplanes in the sky.
• He adores going to school (most) everyday.
  
• His favorite thing to do in the morning before leaving for school is to give the dogs treats.
  
• He can say Boo-Boo and tries to say Scout.
  
• He also shakes his head “no” when they try to steal his food, although more often than not, he ends up feeding it to them anyway.
  
• He gives kisses and lots of hugs.
  
• He can say water in Spanish, and if you ask him where his shoes are, also in Spanish, he will get them for you.
  
• He likes to dance while watching So You Think You Can Dance, and claps for himself when he is done.
• However, his most recent noteworthy accomplishment... A couple of Sundays ago, he took off his dirty diaper and dumped his "earnings" on the kitchen floor… Very proud moment for him. Me? Not so much.
  
• Tonight, he pooped in the big boy toilet. Marked improvement from the kitchen floor. Don't worry, we aren't potty training yet. It was just bad timing on my part with the diaper change. He is super squirmy for diaper changes these days, so I didn't think I'd have enough time to get another diaper on. Plus, what's another terd on the floor at this point? So instead, I just ran him across the hall. I am happy to report he made it, and waved bye-bye as we flushed. Who knew poop could be so cute?

Enough with the narrative, on to the visual...

Like Mother Like Son

First train ride -he took it VERY seriously.

A perfect Saturday morning: a fun run with friends, followed by feeding the ducks.
It's too hot now to run, even at 8:00 a.m.
But the three of us (and the ducks, I am sure) are looking forward to fall!