Can I help with dishes, mom?

Seth has discovered the dishwasher lately. When I have it open he will come over to it and put his hands in all the crevices to feel what they all are like. Just as long as I don't roll anything over his fingers he is fine. This is a great fun new toy!

This is great fun, mom. I can help with dishes...

Seriously, maybe that will come true some day for real.

Happy boy

Seth has this habit of chewing on his shoes, particularly ones that don't fit him anymore. I don't know why he likes this so much, but he does. Just give him a shoe and he'll be quiet for a bit!

Climbing

The other morning, Seth was in a mood to climb all over me, so I had to get some pictures. He has great fun doing this, except when he does a face plant without knowing how to stop his momentum.

Let's just climb over mom's leg a minute...

This was a very precious smile!!!

A trip to the mall play area

A couple weeks ago we went to the Aurora mall play area they have for kids so Seth could play with the things they have there. He had a good time even though he couldn't get around as fast as the bigger kids. I don't think it will be long before he's running and jumping just like the rest of them.

This rocket was pretty cool as kids could sit in it. So, we took advantage of that and sat Seth in there. He had a good time "touching" everything.

This pig was just adorable!! As you can see from the picture below, Seth loved it!!

All boy!

We have recently found some soft balls in our house that Seth can now play with. He really enjoys the basketball, in the picture below and the raquetball. We also have a real baseball that he enjoys quite a bit too. The balls typically get away from him and he chases them all over the basement floor. Quite cute to watch.

Seth has also taken to climbing on things lately. He's really pulling himself up against different things like this stack of shelves.

How much money is there in here???

Seth has discovered Jason's piggy bank from when he was a kid. We used it as a door stop to keep Seth's door open and since Seth can now crawl all over, he discovered this. I had to take all the change out because it kept falling out and I didn't want Seth to swallow a penny or something else. But, he still has fun with this latest toy and rolls around with it all over the house.

Hmmm, let's examine this, what else can I do with it? Pretty precious!

I amazes me how Seth can find so many toys around the house that I did not think of as being toys. Kitchen towels he can pull off the stove where they are hanging is a favorite of his. He also gets into other less than desirable things such as today when he got into the cat's water dish and sloshed it all over the floor! Seth has really started to "follow" our cat around the house to wherever she is. It is fun to just watch him get up and go so fast to catch her. One of these days he will catch her. Wonder what will happen then.... All in all, Seth hasn't gotten into any real horrible trouble with crawling, he's just exploring the house on his own for the most part. Our baby proofing has been taken to a whole new level though. Today he has started to pull himself up on furniture, so that will be the next thing. I have been having a feeling that maybe he would walk before he turned 1 year, so we will see.

Swing!

Yesterday we took Seth to a park that had baby swings in it. It was quite fun to watch Seth swing, and I have a bunch of photos to remember it.

We all had fun even though it was a bit windy, but the sun was shining and there were very few clouds.

At the top of the slide Seth seems to be saying, what is this all about? He wasn't so sure the first couple times we took him down it, but after that he was really liking it.

This picture really shows Seth's pretty blue eyes again. It helps that the slide is also blue.