OMG! William is almost walking: 11months

William always seems to shock mommy and daddy on his monthly birthdays. For the past few weeks Julie has been able trick William into free standing by handing him food ^_^

This time, Julie handed William the house keys when they got off the elevator. William was so fascinated by the keys that he forgot he was standing on his own. When he realized that mommy had already walked away from the elevator, he took his first step... amazed by his own achievement he hurried and sat down to make sure he does not fall.

Since then, he's been showing off his one hand hold walking skills. He cruises next to furniture and launches on to the next furniture to continue cruising.

It has been so exciting for us to watch him discover his new skills!

pictures to follow.

William's first Thanksgiving

Eric and Julie were pretty excited to celebrate William's first Thanksgiving. After packing his dinner in little containers, Eric and Julie headed to Andrea and Mike's place to enjoy the Thanksgiving feast (from the gourmet kitchen of Safeway). However, William was not interested in his own dinner... he had his eyes set on the turkey and the mash potatoes on the table... can't blame him... it does look much tastier than his cold dinner from the little containers. SO... William officially upgrade himself to chunky food on Thanksgiving night ( with turkey, bread, and pumpkin pie).



Why stop there right?! While William's Godmama Carol was visiting that weekend, we also let William have some ice cream ^_^ acorn does not fall far from the tree... he loved it!



Besides surprising us with his interest in food, William also surprised us with his curiosity for adventure. Here is a picture Grampie captured of William stepping on Julie's craft supply box so he can get a better look our the window. It's been difficult to try to keep him off the box since then.



More pictures from November:

Two Teeth at 10.5 months

After watching William's library friends have their teeth come out like spring flowers, we started to wonder when his teeth are going to come out...



Well... here it is ^_^ this is a picture of Julie try to hold William down with her feet and open his mouth with her hands so daddy can take a picture of these two precious pearly whites ^_^


Also, here is a picture of William trying out Grampie F's baby outfit that was made by great grandmama many many moons ago. Doesn't he look great in this outfit?


Here is another one Julie really likes.

Here are pictures of William picking out his own pumpkin at the library:


Time sure flies!

Guess what else I found?

William loves to watch daddy get ready in the morning. Maybe because there is so much fun stuff in the bathroom. TP is William's new toy. He loves to unroll it, have us roll it back, then unroll it again.

Go Giants!

Even though we are not Giant's fans, it is hard to not join the festivity when we live so close to the ball park.

The evening when Giant's won the championship, we can hear the cheering even though we live so many blocks away. The cheering lasted past midnight. Eric did go out and take a few pictures while Julie stay behind to watch William.

Few days later, Julie walked William over to Eric's office to go join the Giant's victory parade. It is amazing how many people took the day off to come see the parade. The news said there were at least a million people came to join the celebration ( last time Giant's won was 50 years ago).



William sat on daddy's shoulder for the first time... it was scary for the both of them... but William did squeeze out a smile for mommy's camera.

Halloween outfit

It was difficult for Julie to figure out what to dress William up as for Halloween. After all this is his first Halloween. Finally, Julie decided to let William have multiple outfits. We know William won't remember.... But Julie will^_^



So Julie first had William try on the Chinese outfit he wore for his one month birthday... The shirt was a little tight and the pants ripped after William wiggled a few times (but the outfit did make it through the library and our apartment halloween party).



Then Julie dressed William up as Charlie Brown on Halloween. With the little amount of hair he's got, doesn't he look like Charlie Brown?


You would think that it would be easy to find a yellow shirt to put a brown strip on... It took Julie forever to shop for that shirt. She finally gave up and just bought a white polo shirt and some yellow cloth dye... Tada! Charlie Brown shirt!

William didn't get to have any candies this Halloween but Eric and Julie shared some of William's candies together.

We also celebrated Eric's 31st birthday by visiting the California Academy of Science.


William loved the aquarium!

Since we were close by the De Young Museum, we also tried to go and visit the Impressionest exhibit:

Julie had a little too much fun with the cutouts.




Here is more pictures from October:

What does this bottom do?

Our Curious George has found the flush on our toilet. He is heading into the bathroom to try out this new bottom every chance he gets! Luckily we pay a flat fee on our water bill...