California Adventure

John asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday and I asked him what my options were. He replied anything I wanted and I said Disneyland. So we packed up the car and drove down after John came home from work.

 Scott babbled to himself, napped, and snacked the whole drive. He slept well in the hotel and was an angel all day. I'm not even bragging, I'm truthfully reporting his perfect behavior.

 We checked out the new Radiator Springs, which was cool. The Cars racing ride was unexpectedly fun.

 Scott does not love his Mickey ears. He does love reaching his hand out to touch things.

 When I saw Mickey out with only a few people waiting I wanted a family picture, so we stood in line for one.

 Scott found a young lady to flirt with. He makes friends very easily.

 He was unsure of Mickey until he let Scott touch his nose. You can see him grabbing Mickey's mouth in the picture. He's very into faces lately.

 After lots of rides we had a Ghirardelli sundae. They replaced the Mission tortilla factory, which was sad, but if they had to take it out at least they put ice cream in its place.

 While digesting and coming down from a sugar high, we went through the animation studio.

 It was pretty empty in there, unlike the rest of the park, so we let Scott out to play.

 Carpet means crawling around--his favorite--and he started walking all over the place.

 John let Scott touch the screen to find his character match and he chose the evil path.

 Helping Grandma pick her character.

 Karen sat him in this chair and waved at him.

I took a video because he looked like a little prince waving to his people.

We stayed to watch the World of Color show, which was absolutely amazing. I've been so excited to see it since we came in 2010 and saw them working on it, but it was even better than my high expectations. Then we headed back to the hotel and crashed.

Tool Bench

Since I won't be buying a Pottery Barn Kids tea set or doll house any time soon, I was really excited to find this floor model for sale.

 We'd already bought Scott some toy tools and pulled them out for him to try.

 He loves them.

 Then I picked up a cheap tool box to complete the set (mostly because I can latch it and he can't spread the toys around the house without me opening it first.)

 Now John wants a work bench and tool box.

Stepping

Scott decided he wanted to stay up late last Saturday night, so he started showing off with some steps.

A week later, he has gotten a little braver and just gets up without being prompted. 

This was Saturday's conference session and by Sunday he was going across the room without help. He still prefers crawling, though, and I'm okay with that. 

Easter

The Friday afternoon before Easter we went to an egg hunt with some families in our ward. We each brought a dozen filled eggs per child, hid them, then the kids found them.

Scott found this Darth Vader egg and loved it. He became disinterested in egg hunting after that.

Some of the kids found the extras and Scott was interested in their piles.

I wish I hadn't focused on someone's hair instead of Scott because his excitement was over the top.

The kids went through and picked their 12 based on candy preference and we picked 11 from their reject pile to take home. Luckily all Scott cared about was the plastic egg.

Easter morning Scott found his basket magically refilled with some of his favorite things.

 He was really sleepy.

 He found a puzzle and Teddy Grahams, but preferred the bucket and shovel. He loves playing with them and the tanbark at the park.

 My parents and sister came over for Easter brunch. We had cinnamon rolls, French toast with fat sauce, scrambled eggs, ham, fruit and freshly squeezed orange juice from our tree.

Scott liked all the food.

 Then we quickly changed for church. Scott's shoes stayed on about 15 seconds.

 He was ready to nap and started whining to get down. He held this "rattle" that my dad brought to cheer him up. This was the best we took.

Then Scott fell asleep on the way to church and stayed conked on my lap through sacrament meeting. Easter can be so exhausting when you're one.

We look pretty much the same as last year, but I'm not sure what happened to that tiny baby.

Scott in March

I'm trying to take less pictures and narrow them down better so I can have a monthly random-pictures-of-Scott post instead of a weekly one. We'll see how it goes.

Scott tried out the kid cart at Lowes. He was in heaven.

Late church means slow Sunday mornings.

Putting that kid to work. Has to earn his keep.

Mooching my cereal.

Enjoying his birthday toys.

The Duplo cars seem to be a favorite.

He helped himself to a snack after church. 

I guess we were taking too long on dinner.

Scott really loves to help cook.

He puts the lid on and takes it off, stirs, then tastes.

He also likes his water bottle. He drops it when he's done, then later when he's playing and thirsty, he crawls over to the floor by the highchair and finds it.

He tried using a spoon at dinner. He'd put food on it with his hand, then lift it to his mouth and the food would fall off. Eventually he just chewed the spoon instead.

He's been doing this little pose a lot. It seems to be a combo of shy and flirty. He does it to his grandma about halfway through the cooking video above, too.

Scott's also been waving and clapping all the time, except when you ask him to do it. The only thing he does when asked is high fives.

Hanging out with his bff, food mixer.

Scott's grandma took him to the grocery store and came home with a pineapple yogurt. He is really fast and has long arms.

Helping dad make crust for pi day.

Playing with dad.

Showing off his standing abilities

and refusing to take a step despite his obviously sufficient strength and balance.

His hair is getting long and fluffy. Probably time for a trim.

 Since he was enjoying our pots and pans so much I bought him a set from Ikea.

They've been keeping him entertained while I play with the bigger-sized ones making lunch and dinner.

Having a few puffs to stir and eat in each pot doesn't hurt.