Here’s Sean sporting his birthday suit! It’s so hot here we frequently go out after dinner to “water the garden.” Really it means to splash around in some water. We strip Sean of his clothes and let him run around our fenced backyard bare-bottomed. (But not shoe-less, as the ground is rocky and sharp, covered […]
Since Sean learned to walk, we have become playground connoisseurs. Sean, in particular, is always eager to explore a new playground. Here we are at Austin’s Zilker Park, one of its best-known. There’s a big fire engine to climb on, which delighted Sean, as well as the standard playground equipment. Slides are always a hit, […]
On Fathers Day we all drove down to the southern Austin to bike on the Veloway; it’s a three-mile paved loop for bicycles only. We’d heard about it and Ben wanted to try it out. We took our Sean bike trailer and biked for a little while before Sean became antsy and wanted to get […]
I knew a long time ago that Sean was listening to everything we said. He’d hear a key word that he knew and repeat it or ask for it. I imagined it sounded to him something like “blah blah blah banana blah blah blah.” And he’d say “ba! ba!” and make the sign for banana. […]
Sean loves to eat fruits of all kind, but he particularly enjoys chomping into a nice juicy pear…
Sean *adores* trains. Loves ’em. Can’t get enough of ’em. His favorite toy is a little toy train. He starts making train noises whenever we see railroad tracks. He points out pictures of trains at daycare. So you can imagine how excited he was a month and a half ago when we went to Ben’s […]
When Sean first started saying “no” a couple months ago, it was *so* cute. I almost wanted to ask him questions to which the answer was “no” just to hear him say it. (I did so here to capture it on video.) Sean’s original “no” as shown below has transformed into a more normal single […]