State Fair

I took Blake to the NM State Fair last week. We went Thursday with a friend of ours who has a little boy Blake's age. Blake LOVED the petting zoo. There was a yak, brahma, pony, cow and of course goats. There were a few goats that weren't in the pen and were just laying out on the hay. Blake had a ball pushing their fat tummies over and over and over. They really are squishy (like santa's tummy). I was going to buy him the food to feed them, but he saw someone else's and tried to eat it himself, so I decided against purchasing it.

He also had a good time on the tractors. They had these small tractors that are operated like bicycles, although he couldn't reach the pedals. I got a few cute pictures of him on the tractor.

And then I made the mistake of showing him a light-up toy in the exhibit hall where they sell all the junk. He used to have one of these toys that my friend affectionately called "baby crack," because her son had one too and could never put it down and would get upset when it was taken away. I figured Blake could handle it. wrong. I let him hold it, which was my first mistake and ...... yep, you guessed it, we ended up having to buy it. He dropped it only about 5 minutes later and yes, it broke. $7 down the drain. I think I learned my lesson though.

It's official!

Blake is officially walking now. He actually prefers to walk these days, so I guess that's what makes it official. He will walk about 8-10 steps by himself before he falls and if you hold his hand, he will walk and walk and walk.

We went to the grocery store tonight and I let him down to walk (holding my hand) and he found these HUGE pumpkins. Seriously, like state fair sized pumpkins. I have no idea how much they weigh, but there are $60 so you can imagine how big they are. He kept trying to climb the pumpkins and then he would tap them and walk around them.

Then he found the balloons. Yep, the mylar balloons that are about $5 each. We like to go to Trader Joes and when we go there, he gets a free balloon, so now he believes every balloon at a grocery store must be free. No, I didn't buy a balloon. You don't realize how many balloons are in a grocery store until you go with a one year old. This kid will find a balloon anywhere. Next time you go, look around and I'm sure you'll be surprised at the number of balloons in a grocery store. I can't say I have ever seen anyone actually purchase one though.

Anyway, he's a walker now and I'm not so sure it's a good thing.

Tonka

Gotta love the Tonka Dump Truck.

Grammie and Grampie bought this dump truck for one of the other cousins and he never really liked it so on their recent trip to see the other kids, they re-bought it at the family garage sale so they could give it to Blake. He LOVES it!!

He pushes it all over the house and along the way, he stops and picks up all his towels and puts them in the dumper. Then he goes to another room and takes them out and then puts different combos of the towels in the truck, picks up all the towels and heads off to another room. Sometimes he even climbs into the dumper. S and I like to push him back and forth down the hall while he is in the truck.

Today he went to the living room and picked up his dapper dan doll (S thought his name was "diaper dan") and put him in the truck with the towels. Now he isn't the greatest driver, so I have had to cover the edge of the dumper with a towel in order to save our walls, although we will have to do some patching before we leave.

I just think it's funny how the other little guy didn't like it at all and Blake loves it. kids.

walker?

Perhaps.

Blake has started walking while holding my hands and I can usually get him to go about the length of the hall or possibly a bit farther. Most often he can do this while only holding one of my hands.

Today we were at the Q (outdoor shopping center) and he started pushing his stroller around (no he wasn't in it) and he went the length of about 4-5 store fronts then would turn around and come back. Everytime I asked him where grandma was, he'd let go of one hand and turn around and wave to grandma and then start walking again. We must have gone up and down about 5-6 times.

Then tonight when daddy got home, Blake walked back and forth to us in the living room. He was going about 5 steps all by himself. I have video, but can't seem to post it right now. I'll work on it. It's cute.

So, one of these days he'll finally get going. My mom says I didn't walk until I was 15 months and look at me now. Now Blake is 15 months, so he's right with me. I guess we can expect great things. :)