Present Time!

Austin had so much fun eating the paper from his birthday presents.  Isn't he adorable!

Maybe my knees will stop itching and burning now

After he started taking so many steps at a time, we rushed out and did the most responsible thing we could think of doing...

We bought one of those monkey backpack leash things.  Sure, we always laughed at parents in the mall when they had their kids on the leash, but we are just going to tell ourselves that Austin is a special case and those other parents are still really poor parents.  If they saw Austin sliding down the slide headfirst on purpose or gnawing the sides of his crib like a beaver, they would let their children roam free and donate their backpack leashes to us.

One less chore for Zach in a few years!

He just isn't tall enough to put the dishes up or get them out of the sink.  Not to mention how much he likes to throw everything.  Maybe I should work with him on taking out the trash...that is more on his height level.

Never mind the footed frog pajamas

The point is that he can slide really good by himself.  If he would have had bare feet or shoes on and tried to slide, he probably would have dug his feet into the slide and pulled off one death defying front flip.