New Pictures

The first picture is of Todd and Spencer before church. Spencer loves this train tie. The second picture is of me and Spencer before our first bike ride. We love our bike rides. Spencer loves holding on to the handle bars and helping mommy steer the bike. He sometimes tries to push my hands out of the way so he can steer by himself. Of course I tell him no. A few times he has said, "I'm helping mommy".

The Angels

Today we went to my parents' house and my mom had my brother's trophies out. Spencer looked at them and said, "The Angels". I kept thinking, "How does he know about the Angel's baseball team?" Then it hit me. I think he was talking about the Angel Moroni on top of the LDS temples. They're the same gold color and we also had an Angel Moroni on top of our Christmas tree that looked like it was made out of the same material as the people on the trophies. So I think that's what he was talking about. Any how, I thought it was cute.

We also went to visit my grandma. We visit her and my parents once a week. It's fun to see Spencer and my grandma interact. I can tell that she adores him and he just loves her. She gives him rides on her walker around the house and she usually has M&Ms lined up in a row on her side table waiting for him. He usually sees them and goes over and eats them without even asking. When we leave she walks us to the door and when we're outside she looks out the backdoor curtain and plays peek-a-boo with him. I'm so glad she has been able to live this long to get to know him (She just turned 90 this year). We've been going over to her house almost every week since he was a baby.

To bring the Camera or Not to Bring the Camera

Lately, I have had a few experiences where I wish I had my camera with me. One was a few weeks ago at a local mall where we exercise on windy or rainy days. As we pulled up to the mall, there was a huge black hawk helicopter on a trailer in the mall parking lot. Spencer and I went with our friends for a close up look. Luckily my friend had a cell phone and took some pictures.

Yesterday, as we were getting ready to go to Disneyland I decided I didn't need to take the camera every time we went. Well, it turned out to be a great day for pictures. Such a great picture day, that I am seriously considering paying the outrageous $12.95 for the pictures the kind staff at Disneyland took of Spencer with Goofy and Mickey.

When we entered Main St. We saw Goofy and Spencer got excited so we went over to see him. Goofy took the leash to the backpack Spencer was wearing and started to walk Spencer around. He then gave Spencer the leash and I took this as him saying, "You're free".

We also saw Mickey in his house at Toon Town. Spencer went up to him and gave him a kiss.

It was so fun to see Spencer’s excitement as we drove up to Disneyland.

Creche Festival

This was a picture taken at a local Creche Festival that Spencer and I attended in December.

Colors

For the most part Spencer seems to learn things quickly. However, colors seem to have taken a while. Todd and I were beginning to wonder if he was color blind. Recently, however, he seems to be learning his colors. A few weeks ago he correctly recognized the color of his towel as orange,which suprised me because I don't think we do orange a lot, and when I was doing laundry the other day he again pointed out the orange towel on the couch. Then tonight as I was getting him ready for bed he identified my shirt as blue,it was probably more a tourquoise but i think it counts as blue, then I pointed to some other things that he correctly identified as blue. I then pointed to some red things and he correctly identified them as red.

This morning when I was getting him ready for church he said he wanted to wear his red socks. After seeing that he had red in his shirt I put on his red socks. He then told me sometime after that he wanted to wear his pink socks. I told him he didn't have any pink socks. He sometimes talks about pink. That's a color that I don't think we've talked about much. I think we mostly do red and blue. Anyhow, at one of his doctor's appointments a few months ago he got a pink sucker. So I'm wondering if that's how pink got into his mind. Any how, it's so fun to watch him grow and learn.

As far as numbers he seems to be recognizing things in two. For example, yesterday we went on a little run/walk and, since we've recently started going on bike rides, I would point out people riding by on their bikes. Sometimes two people would ride by and he would say something like, "there's two bikers".

Halloween

Hey. If the stores can start putting out Christmas decorations at Halloween then I can do a Halloween post at Christmas time.lol Any way, we had a great Halloween. Spencer enjoyed eating the candy out of his bucket. When I was little we always went trick- or- treating around my Grandma's neighborhood,so that's where we took Spencer. My mom passed out candy at Grandma's house while my dad went with us. Spencer wanted to walk right with Grandpa the whole night. Enjoy the pictures and we would love comments.

Bye Bye Uncle Sean

Just a little background before I tell the story. Spencer has an Uncle Sean who lives out of state. Spencer has only met Uncle Sean a few times and probably doesn't remember meeting him because he was less than a year old. However, we have a little photo book with Uncle Sean and his family in it and we talk about them.

Alright. On to the story. Last week we were at the park and Spencer met a little boy named Sean. When we were ready to leave, I told Spencer to say good bye to Sean. Spencer then responded with, "Bye, bye, Uncle Sean". I thought it was so cute. I guess he doesn't quite get the concept that multiple people can have the same name.