A Year in Kieran

Happy Birthday, little boy. It's been a long short year:

At the beginning:





Discovering his horrible fate:

 

 

 

Getting settled in:

 

 

 

Finding the fun stuff:

 

 

 

Resigned to his fate:

 

 

 

Finding his face:

 

 

 

Learning new things:

 

 

 

A well-groomed boy:

 

 

Can't think of a summary for October:

 

 

 

 

Turning on the charm:

 

 

 

 

On the move:

 

 

A New Year:

 

 

 

So big and so small:

 

 

On the prowl

 

A fierce grab for the camera

 

Happy snarf

 

How does he do it?

 

Food on his face, in his hair, on his hands, on his arms, covering the tray, on the wall (not pictured), maybe on the ceiling, and, if we're lucky, some of it might have made it into his mouth. From which he promptly removed it, but we try.

Lawnmower, sidewalk mower, whatever

 

 

Driveway mower?

 

Oh, there's the lawn.

 

Topiary: you're doing it wrong

 

 

Dynamic duo

 

Good dental hygiene starts young

 

Fine, I'll get the ball. Again.

 

But we'd better do something fun after this.

Not for playing

 

There's something very interesting on the driveway

 

Not how diapers work

 

I'ma gonna getcha youa

 

All these possessions, but no fulfillment

 

Ghetto walker

 

 

Hiyooooo!

High-fiving

 

 

Stairing contest

 

Caught in the act

 

Oblique strategy

 

Tribal slide whack

 

 

Swing of things

 

Wheee!

 

Aaaah! Too fast!

 

That is not what I meant.

Please tell me we're walking further than the driveway

 

Heck, I'll get out and crawl to the sidewalk.

Not too impressed with his new perspective

 

Gah, this store is soooooo boring

 

Oh boy, a stick!

 

I am totally going to put that in my mouth.

The ascent

 

Wondrous, glorious crackers

 

Sometimes this boy is sad

 

Hoodlums

 

The remake.

Zen-like calm

 

Streeeeetch

 

Why does this sound hollow?

 

Stop following me

 

Go get a hobby or something. Whaddya mean, I'm your hobby?

Watching me in the kitchen

 

 

Watching me watching him.

Teaching him Marco Polo

 

Needs vitamin supplementation

 

A lot of supplementation.

He'll be wearing red pajamas...

Last night Kieran had kind of a tough night. At one point I took over, and he was very upset to see Mommy go. Lots of screaming and thrashing while I tried to soothe him. Patting, shushing, rocking, singing a lullaby.... None of it worked. Until I remembered his favorite song. I was just a couple words in, "She'll be..." and he immediately changed. He relaxed back on to me and stopped yelling. By the time she'd come around the mountain, he had laid his head back down. It was like magic. There's just something about that song. Sadly, that was not the end of his distress for the night, but it certainly did the trick just then.

Morning constitutional

 

A charming face

 

 

Now you do one.

Deer, headlights, etc.

 

Kieran crawls around

Yay food

 

 

Oh no, it's almost gone!

Kieran likes the boom boom

Things are looking up

 

Sideways

 

 

Swingy

 

 

 

Not eating gravel yay!

 

 

Mmm, comb

 

My God, it's full of cheese!

 

Shakespearean

 

Hand!

 

Bus stop repair shop

 

 

 

Choking hazards are fun

 

Kieran's world

 

A resemblance just for me?

Bandana of brother

 

 

 

Floor games

 

 

 

Pop for me!

 

Unconvinced of the merits of chairs

 

White fang(s)

 

 

I know he's been making this face a lot lately, but I don't get tired of it.

An appreciative connoisseur of the banana

 

Ready to blow this joint

 

There's something very interesting about that wall