Headshots

Why do we have kids? For our own amusement of course! Kidding. But there is no doubt that a child provides endless hours of free entertainment. We are thoroughly entertained each and every evening watching Anderson play and figure things out. Just last night we were shocked when he decided he wanted to start learning how to stand on his own. He'd take a second to steady himself, and then all of a sudden let go! I think we all just stared at each other for the 5 seconds or so he was standing on his own. He started to wobble and grabbed onto his little car for support again. And it's also fun to take him to different things, even though he can't really participate, it's fun to see his expression and how big his eyes get when he sees something new. But, I admit that we do a few things at his expense for our own amusement.

A few weekends ago, I took Anderson to the UC Davis Picnic Day, which is more or less and open house for the school. All the clubs and departments come out and have fun events for the town. We went to a petting zoo (although Anderson was too timid to touch the goat) and watched dog races. We also went to a bug exhibit and took this picture:


Anderson as praying mantis!! Of course you can only do this when they are really young and don't know what's going on. Anderson even has that look on his face as if to say "I don't know what's going on but I'm pretty sure I don't like this!"

The next weekend, his daycare/school had a carnival for the kids. Again, there was another headshot opportunity and you better believe we grabbed it! Here is the series of pictures:

"What's going on? Why am I in this thing?"

"There's Daddy! Daddy help! Ms. Julie, Help!" (Ms. Julie is one of Anderson's teachers)

"Everyone's laughing! There must be something funny!"

Unfortunately he couldn't participate in much again. No face painting, no balloon animals, no sock puppets, and definitely no hot dogs and cotton candy. But he did get to make one of these fierce animal bracelets!

"ROAR!"