Happy 4th of July

We spent the 4th at my grandma's house. It was nice to get away. While we were there my mom's cousin and his family came for a beauty pagent and came to see everyone. Duncan feel in love with all of them.

Children's Museum

My little flower

Duncan was finally able to leave the house this summer, so I took him to the Phoenix Children's Museum. He had a fun time with his cousin Ava.

Pancakes

Duncan is entering the world of people food, he won't eat baby food anymore. I don't blame him, yuck! This was his first time with pancakes with syrup. He wasn't sure of it at first, but then he started to enjoy it. Yummy, it was good

Some Summer Fun

This hole blows air out of it and he thought that was really funny.

Living in Arizona there are very few things you can do out doors in the summer. In fact you don't want to do anything outside if you live in Phoenix or the surrounding cities. Unless you live in the cooler parts of AZ you spend your time inside. Thankfully there are a few places here that you can go and they are indoors. We do have a fun Science center, but Duncan is too small for that. Across the street there is a Children's Museum. We decided to go there because I had heard there is more to do there for small ones. I was really excited to find out they have an entire room just for 3 and under children, and what is better is that it is a shoe free room so no one can wear their shoes in there. Which eased my nerves a bit since I am a little bit freakish about Duncan and germs.

We had a fun time. It was fun to see how Duncan did interacting with other children. He doesn't really. He plays really well all by himself, but he does have fun playing with his cousin Ava, she is one of the only kids I have seen him interact with, well besides Aubree and Kyler (who he totally loves). I didn't get to take a lot of pictures or very good pictures because as soon as he looked at one thing he was off to the other. He is a very active boy and loves to discover new things.

Catch up

This summer has gone by so quickly and for some it is not over. I guess "summer" isn't over when school starts, it's still hot. I should say summer break is over. I went back to work on Thursday and this is going to be an interesting year in many ways. Duncan is going to a babysitter for two days a week, Nana and Papa two days and Grandma one day. So he will have a variety of venues to keep him busy. He is doing great. His top two teeth FINALLY broke through and that has seemed to bring him some relief. He isn't as whinny as he was anyway. The big thing is that he is trying to walk. He started by walking around things, then he started climbing over and through EVERYTHING!! Now he is standing and letting go of things and walking to them. I also see him trying to stand up from sitting position. I think in another week he will be walking. He is curious and adventurous and loves to open drawers and he can't stand for tables to have anything on them and feels it his job to clean them off. He is eating more and more solid food, he loves watermelon, peaches, cantaloupe, cheerios, nutrigrain bars are a new thing he loves and Goldfish. Oh and he loves pasta.

We took him back to the NICU this week as well to visit his neonatologist Dr. Naser and some of the nurses that took care of him. It was really nice to see them. They were so shocked by how big he is. He got his picture taken and they put it on the wall of NICU Graduates. It was strange at first walking down the hall that I walked everyday for three months and two weeks. Sometimes alone, sometimes with family and then this time with Duncan.

So now it is back to reality and the daily grind. I am going to miss my afternoon naps with Duncan. I'm just going to miss being with him all day.

Cry Baby

Oh, he does like to cry. He is teething and I can't really blame him. Instead of being a compassionate and loving mom and picking him up and soothing him what do I do? I go and grab my camera to capture these precious moments.

Disneyland 2010

Our first picture with Mickey, Duncan was too tired to really notice who he was with.

Nana and Papa with Mickey

Tea cups-can't spin this one with dad, he has a sensitive stomach.

We decided last year when Duncan was in the Hospital that after his first birthday we were going to take him to Disneyland. I'm so glad we did. I know people don't think you should take kids until they are older, but it was a lot of fun. The only thing I would recommend is this-if your baby is not crawling yet go- if they are walking go- if they are just crawling don't go. That is the only complaint I have. When they are crawling that is not a good time to take them there. There is no where for kids to get down and crawl so it was a little frustrating for him.

My mom and dad went with us and I was glad they were there. Duncan is definitely a Papa's boy. He wanted my dad to carry him all the time or me. It was so cute watching him just look around at everything there. He was in awe of everything and every one. He loves other kids and older women. He loves the characters- he wasn't afraid of them at all. He met Pooh, Eeor, Tiger, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Rabbit, Chip and Dale, and Pluto and loved all of them. One of his favorite area's was Toon Town and The Bugs Life area in California Adventures. He loved everything except the Haunted Mansion, but that could have been because he was tired, but I think we'll wait until he is older to try that one again. He loved Pirates though. He just looked around at everything on each ride.

He was really good. He slept in his stroller and didn't have a hard time getting him to sleep in the hotel (i was worried about that) and he LOVED the ice cream. Justin and I both agreed that having kids at Disneyland is a lot different than going by yourselves, but it was better in a way. We were just happy to be there as a family.