This weekend, Chris and I took David to CuriOdyssey, a children’s museum in San Mateo.  He was very clearly overstimulated and would run from exhibit to exhibit.  Regardless, he seemed to have a good time and was very tired when we left.

The first time David climbed onto the kitchen chair

Hanging with Mom

Enjoying a tomato (He prefers them whole.)

David has recently started to enjoy putting things into other things.  What types of things?  Pretty much anything.  It’s always interesting for me to open the bottom drawer in our kitchen to find some sort of surprise: a bottle of purell, some hair curlers, the garage door opener, the bubble wand, a piece of bread … you get the picture.  Today, he spent quite a long time breaking up a slice of bread into small pieces and then putting them into one of the vacuum attachments (see video below.)  Then, he spent the rest of the afternoon putting raisins into his shoe.  I’m not really sure what he’s trying to accomplish, but he’s definitely having fun.  In addition, I included a video of one of his new skills: clapping.

Thank you very much to all of our family and friends who helped us celebrate David’s birthday! People came from Georgia, Louisiana, and all around the Bay Area.  We even had tons of help cooking, decorating, and cleaning up.  David sure did have a great time!

We had David’s one year check up yesterday.  He’s doing great and developing normally.  He weighs 27 pounds and is 30 inches long.  He had to get blood drawn and 4 shots, so it was a little traumatic for all of us.  Thankfully, he get a reaction to any of the shots!