Step By Step

Kellan's walking!  Pretty decent distances, too.  Here's a video we captured on the lawn last night.  Woohoo!

Except for the face plant at the end, not to shabby for a first-time walker, right?

Outdoor Photo Shoot

We've finally been getting nice enough weather to spend more time outside on the deck.  The other day, Kellan was looking particularly cute, so I decided to snap a few shots.

What? You wanna piece of me?

Happy toddler!!

Kellan's been doing this "thing" lately with his hand - a silly wave of sorts.  It cracks him up, so... whatever makes you happy, Kellan. :-)

Kellan Hearts Avocado

We're so pleased that Kellan loves his vegetables, though we'd be happy if he liked a few fruits as well (we're working on it).  His favorite food, however, is technically a fruit.  I'm speaking, of course, about avocado.

He takes fistfuls of avocado at a time.

Then he just smashes it in - most of which ends up in his mouth, but some ends up on his face.

An avocado mask now and then is good for the skin, right?

Walking Practice

Kellan's been hard at work learning how to walk.  Daddy has been practicing with him in the evening (when possible) on the grass, though Kellan gets lots of it at daycare, too.

This shows Daddy letting go of Kellan, and...

...Kellan took 5 or 6 steps on his own towards Mommy!  It's his biggest streak so far.

He's so excited to get moving!

First Haircut

On Saturday, Mommy and Daddy took Kellan to get his first haircut.  We went to "Li'l Klippers" at Wallingford Center.  They specialize in children's cuts, and afterwards we received a little card memorializing the event with a description of Kellan's reactions and a lock of his hair.  Below is an almost blow-by-blow account of the haircut.

This is the first pre-haircut picture we took.  As you can see, the chairs are pretty cute (Kellan got the airplane chair), and he got to wear a big kid's smock.

One last look at his curls (it was looking rather mullet-esque).

The first cry of "what the heck is going on?"

Susan (the stylist) thought maybe showing Kellan what she was using might ease his fears...

...she was wrong.

 

Eventually we found that the only way to get it done was to distract Kellan with toys (which they had loads of at the salon).

We still had our moments of fussing, however.

This is the first picture taken with Mommy's iPhone, as the batteries ran out on our camera (so, sorry for the bad quality of the remaing pics).

By the end, Kellan seemed to be pretty pleased with his new 'do.

Here's another look at the cut...

...and one more for good measure.  Doesn't he look older?

On a totally random side note, Mommy couldn't help but notice how much the stylist, Susan, looked like Peg Bundy from "Married with Children" (minus the oversized hair).  Judge for yourself:

Susan

Peg Bundy

Eerie, right??

Snaggletooth No More

Kellan's teething again, and it appears he's getting his 2nd lower front tooth, as well as both of his 2 upper front teeth.  Wow, he's been grumpy.  But, can you imagine?  Cutting teeth can't be all that comfortable.  Anyway, we're going to miss calling him snaggletooth.  He's pretty cute with just that one pearly white on the bottom, don't you think?

Peekaboo

Kellan's frequently playing forms of peekaboo with us these days, and it's pretty fun to get him going, as it always brings a smile (and most times a laugh) from him.  One of his favorite ways to play is to get on one side of the ottoman and peek above it to see us -

- then look underneath the ottoman until we show our faces on the other side to look at him.

Repeat about 20-30 times, and you've got one happy Kellan!