The Rambler

8 Months Old

I told Grandma Egli I would post some videos of Gabe's development towards crawling...

And here's one of several still-shots taken within about 2 minutes time.


On other news, Gabe turned 8 months old this week. Here are some pictures from that day. (He doesn't like wearing hats and is quite good at taking them off as soon as I put them on.)



And I finally got a tooth shot



And just a few more of my favorites from the past week...

Doesn't quite get the concept of how a recorder works yet. All in due time. 

He likes to lick the bowl when he's done eating.

Fun with the box Grandma Egli sent.

Family pictures

Cute (and some not so cute) family pictures

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Pedals and Peas

Here are a few of Gabe's activities for the week:
Playing in peas (he wasn't eating them so I thought we'd have some fun exploring different textures)







We couldn't make it all the way upstairs to the bathroom with all those peas on him, so he took a bath in the kitchen sink


Playing with the organ pedals


This next video isn't particularly amazing, but it's just Gabe being Gabe so I thought I'd put it on


And a few more pictures of Gabe playing...

The Story of Gabe's New Pajamas

I decided to finally do some grocery shopping since our fridge was down to garlic and 3 week old gravy. So after Gabe's morning nap, we headed out to Meijer (similar to a Walmart, but not). Since it was snowing, I thought it would be a good idea to wait until we got in the store to get a cart, so Gabe wouldn't be sitting in wetness while we shopped. While juggling Gabe, the diaper bag, and all our grocery bags into the store I noticed "hey, Gabe doesn't smell too good", so we made a stop at the restroom to take care of business. This is when I discovered a simple diaper changing would not be sufficient --- we were looking at a full blow out. "Not a problem", I thought - I always keep an extra outfit in Gabe's diaper bag for just such the occasion. Always. Except for today. Last night I took the outfit out to replace it with a warmer one, but didn't quite get to the replacing part of the job. So there I am in the Meijer bathroom with a naked Gabe pondering my little conundrum. I pondered too long. Gabe apparently had other business to take care of and did so, leaving him in a puddle of his own urine. After wiping everything down (including just about every surface of Gabe), and diapering the poor boy up, I had nothing to do but put his jacket and socks back on, gather everything else, and walk into the infant clothing section to buy him an outfit. So here I am with a half-naked child, three grocery bags, and an aromatic diaper bag in tow only to find out that the 9-12 month size is very popular at Meijer. So much so, that I couldn't find a SINGLE outfit for this boy. Finally after 10 minutes, I grabbed his New Pajamas a size too big, and checked out (why I did self check-out with my hands and arms completely full, I'm not sure). We headed back to the bathroom, got the naked boy dressed, and had a great time grocery shopping. 

And today Gabe tried carrots for the first time. My goodness he had a good time eating them. 

Christmas 2008!!!

So Gabe has learned that if he does something funny, people will laugh. He's also learned if you do it over and over again, they'll keep laughing. I think we've created a monster...or a show monkey.

Gabe turned 7 months on the 23rd so here are some pictures of him.

We've been in Logan with the Maw and Paw Egli for Christmas. Here are some of the highlights so far...

Gabe by his first Christmas Tree

Aunt Tiffy gave Gabe his first Dr. Pepper...

(the cold can was good for those two teeth coming in)

Gabe has been hanging out with...

Great Grandma Aldridge
Aunt Tiffy
Uncle Sean and Ivan

and of course, Grandma and Grandpa Egli

He also got a new snow suit -

...so we also had a chance to play in the snow a little.








We made a family of snowpeople











Christmas Day!!!

A little bit of random

I included the picture above specifically for my nephew, Cole, who loves trains. Brian and I took Gabe to the Toledo Zoo (thank you EMU SOAR for admission) light show. We didn't see much of the light show because it was -75 degrees out or something like that, but there was a huge TRAIN display inside- about 30X10 feet. I took a picture for Cole, but am sure he would have enjoyed it much more in person.

The picture below is with Gabe and his cousin Claire. They were born 3 days apart, but Claire feels like a sweet little doll compared to Torrito Gabe. (Brian's grandparents call Gabe "Torrito" or "little bull".)

Here Gabe is with his cousin, Elijah, who likes to read to Gabe. Elijah would get quite offended with Gabe's arm flails and told him, "no Gebe, no hitting." Gabe was also banned from chewing on his books when Elijah was around.

Bath time. Don't worry. We normally don't have that much water in the tub when he's bathing. 

And a big thank you to Aunt Tiffy for the cute vest (and other items) she sent last month.