The Slide

This past weekend we went to Pittsburgh for a visit with Daddy's family there. Grandpa T set up a plastic slide to go down the hillside in front of their house. Mr. Mister loved going down it (although it took some wax paper on his butt to make him go fast enough). Here are some really cute pictures of his progression down the slide.

Abuelita

We had a fun surprise visit last Friday from our Mexican Mama. She is the field director for the missions organization we worked with in Mexico City, so we spent a lot of time serving under her and with her during our time on staff there. We hadn't seen her in over a year and she hadn't met Mr. Mister yet! She was in town for meetings and got to sneak away for lunch with us. It was wonderful catching up, speaking some Spanish, and hearing all that is going on in la Ciudad de México. And Mr. Mister enjoyed getting to meet his Abuelita!

I Love Walking!

Football

Fall means football. Daddy and I have opposite loyalties so we had to make rules early on when it came to influencing Mr. Mister's choice in teams (assuming he even likes football). There are two rules:

1. We can't buy him clothes for our team...only our friends and families can do that.
2. We can build up our team, but we can't talk negatively about the other person's team.

So, here we are into Mr. Mister's second football season of life, and unfortunately it looks like he's choosing the wrong team. But he does look cute in that little jersey! (And if he's going to have a Steeler's jersey, at least it's Ben Roethlisberger, representing my college Alma Mater.)

Nice Hair

We haven't given Mr. Mister a hair cut in a while. Here are some cute hair pictures...

Famous

A couple weeks ago, we went out to eat with my parents. While we were waiting for our meal, Mr. Mister began to get a little fussy, so my mom took him and walked him around. When she came back, she told us that a woman she didn't know stopped her and said, "I know that baby!" It ended up to be a woman who works in the nursery at church. We were laughing that the 1 year old knows more people than we do!

Growing Up

Here are some cute things Mr. Mister has been doing lately...

• He loves to go down the slide at the park. He has a huge smile the whole way down and can almost do it all by himself.
• He is becoming quite the helper. Whenever I'm folding laundry, he likes to help. He'll take a piece of clothing out of the basket, look at it and move it around and then put it to the side...just like what he sees me doing!
• He's getting better at walking. Today Daddy and I were in the kitchen and Mr. Mister came around the corner walking completely on his own, all the way to the table. It was the first time he's initiated such a long distance walk.
• He's (finally) in a cuddle stage! He has never been much of a cuddler and now he'll lay on my chest and just rest with me. It's such precious time with him.
• He has many new words that he says very seriously, thinking that we should know what he's saying. A couple are consistent like do-da (doggy), but others are completely random. They are all very cute and it's fun to see him communicating.
• He's added a new face to his repertoire - the angry face, which he makes on command. I'll try to get a picture of it to post on here.