Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Today is Dave's birthday. We woke up early and had pigs-in-the-blanket, then he opened a couple of gifts. Spencer picked out a meowing cat card (he really did select it), and he also gave Daddy a pen/pencil set and some neat bookends for his office. Geep and Pop are coming this afternoon to celebrate, and then they will hang out with Spence tonight while Dave and I go see Avatar in 3D.


Happy birthday Dave/Daddy! We love you and are so lucky to have you.

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p.s. Look how little Spencer was on Dave's birthday last year...

Trail of Lights

We went to the Trail of Lights with the Poages and Garvens this week. Even though it is waaaaay scaled down this year, Spencer still thought some of it was "Wow!" It was really cold, as you can see by the bundled babies below (I forgot to bring Spencer's gloves!), but that made it feel more Christmasy and fun.



Here are some cool, psychadelic pictures Dave took along the way (click to enlarge).

14 Months Old

I just had to post this picture. I figure this is the last year I can get by with dressing him in animal-footed Christmas pajamas. Hey, it's not like I put him in a homemade bunny outfit!


Our boy is 14 months old today. He is really growing and seems to be having a language explosion. We keep hearing more new words every week. Right now, he loves to say "Wow" and "Whoa." Every morning when I carry him into the living room and he sees the Christmas tree, he lets out the sweetest, "Wowwwwwwwwwwww!"

Thanksgiving Recap

I'm a little behind, but we had a great Thanksgiving. Went to Angleton on Wednesday - first trip with the carseat facing forward (awesome!). Spencer got to visit with Great-Grandma Rives and Aunt Bobbie, we went to see Aunt Renee's new house, and popped in on Lolly and Don, too. Mommy and Daddy went out alone for Mexican food Wednesday night. We had a great Thanksgiving meal with Grannie, Paw-Paw, Renee, Steven, Dianne and Scott. Spencer had a blast playing outside and pushing Mommy's vintage Corn Popper.


We headed to the ranch Thursday evening to hang out with Geep, Pop, Janice, Gary and Austin. Spencer went to bed fairly early and managed to sleep through the Texas vs. Texas A&M game, despite lots of grumbling going on downstairs. Dave had the quote of the night, "Is this really the best time to discuss the proper spelling of 'silhouette?'" (You'll have to ask someone for that story.)


Spencer is such a lucky little boy to have all four grandparents nearby. He had a lot of fun celebrating his second Thanksgiving with everyone.

Piano Man

We had our final Music Together class of the semester last week. At the end of every class, Miss Larissa lets the kids play the piano for a few minutes. Spencer always gets a kick out of that. He seems to love music. We play Pandora radio on our iPhones pretty much all the time now. One of Spencer's favorites is the Justin Timberlake station—he can really get down to that one!


Ever since I wrote the entry about the words Spencer is using now, I keep hearing more and more from him. One of our new favorite things is that he says "jet!" when he hears a plane fly over. He remembered that from the weekend at Geep and Pop's—we haven't even been practicing it with him. He also says his version of "truck" when he hears a big truck outside. Today at lunch he pointed to his water and said "cup." Hope I'm not being obnoxious, but when the day comes that I finally fill out his baby book, I plan to reference the blog for milestones!

Tweedle-Dee

We call Spencer Tweedle-Dee when he wears these jammies.


I uploaded a few pics in the November folder. Been a slow month for photos so far. Not too much to report either. We went to San Antonio last weekend so Daddy could play in a golf tournament with Pop. Spencer had a blast playing outside at Geep and Pop's house. He got to play in the dirt, throw rocks, stick his hands in the pond, and see lots of airplanes fly over (which he wasn't too sure about...).

'Nana!

Your volume needs to be all the way up to hear this one. Spencer likes eating bananas and saying, "nana!" I need to start using the good video camera so I can post some decent vids.

'Nana from Susan Rives Horridge on Vimeo.

His list of words is growing. Off the top of my head, he says mama, dada, 'nana (banana) mowmowmowmow (a meow sound when he sees the cats), go-go (yogurt), go, ball, book, moo (for cows), bath, duck, dog, cookie (or something close to it for Cookie Monster), I think he says baba (bottle), and he says something that seems to mean "this" or "what is this?" - at first we thought he was saying a four-letter word... He also makes a gesture for "all done" when he's finished eating, and he now understands the sign language for "diaper change," "milk," and "more." It's fun to be able to communicate with him more and more.