Sunday at the Discovery Museum

Sunday was a one nap day for Kekoa. What were we going to do for the afternoon with our boy that is so full of energy? We took Kekoa to the Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose. This is the perfect place for our boy with all the energy! He has been there once before, when he was just a little baby and spent the day in the carrier. This time it was so much different. He LOVED this place. There is a special area just for little kids and a special room for crawlers. It was so fun to watch him explore and roam. We only stayed for an hour or so because our one nap baby hit the wall. We will definitely be going back soon though. Next time we will have him get wet in the water area!

I love Kekoa's little face in this picture. He is concentrating so hard.
Throwing the balls down the spiral with daddy!

Kekoa had so much fun crawling back and forth underneath the dragon!




Oooh, big purple blocks!
So much fun!

Another tunnel!

Made it.
This was Kekoa's favorite thing to play with, the red wooden triangle and this table with "fish" in it. It looked like an aquarium. He kept gravitating toward it and would pound the wooden triangle on it. Another baby joined in on looking at the fish and Kekoa was so excited to share his triangle that he bonked the poor little boy on the head. There were a lot of tears and I couldn't stop apologizing! I felt so bad.



I love these pictures of Scott and Kekoa climbing the stairs together!





Check out how Kekoa spins on his bottom. So cute!

Onto the next thing

Now that Kekoa has mastered standing, he is onto the next thing...walking. We went to the park today and it was the first time he was not content crawling on the play structure. He wanted me to take his hands and walk with him!! We walked back and forth many times. Cassie has already warned me to be careful of my back (thank you).
He also loves crawling up the steps, all by himself. Oh, our baby boy is growing too fast!

Zucchini nuggets

I found this really yummy recipe for zucchini nuggets. I've been inspired to try to make some new and interesting things for Kekoa to eat, since he has been protesting eating. Maybe he needs some new flavors and textures. My friend reminded me to not stress about his change in appetite, that eating is supposed to be fun right now, a chance for Kekoa to explore with food.
Turns out he loves the zucchini nuggets, gobbled them up yesterday day and tonight for dinner. I decided to give him a whole nugget to see what he would do. First he looked at me, just to make sure he was supposed to have it. He picked it up and took a huge bite, too big for him and spit it out. Then he started to squish it in his hands. At this point, he was done eating dinner anyways and was having fun.

Yum yum, Ethiopian food

We celebrated Jenny's birthday yesterday at an Ethiopian restaurant. Kaiwei was SUPER excited to see Kekoa and these two boys were just too cute in their high chairs. After we ate lunch they were playing together and making us all smile and laugh. Kaiwei has so much love for Kekoa that he was putting his hands on the side of Kekoa's cheeks and giving him big squeezes! We had to remind him to be gentle!







Kekoa was having fun playing with his placemat and Kaiwei decided to join the fun!

Standing master

Kekoa is now a standing master. It is just amazing how quickly he progresses! Yesterday Scott told me to "come quick, run", so I ran into the bedroom to find my little baby boy standing on the bed, all by himself! He was so proud and had a huge smile on his face. Scott kept telling him to do it again and he would, just loved that he could stand on his own!
He also walked yesterday with the help of only one hand! Good job Kekoa! We are so proud of you baby! We better watch out, you're going to be walking in no time!














The one handed walk...