Video by Dada:

Video by Tovar's babysitter Cristina:

These have been a long time in coming! Thank you to everyone who attended Tovar's birthday, he enjoyed your celebrations and still talks about his birthday all the time. And also, thank you to everyone who brought gifts. Tovar now has a lot of age appropriate toys that he enjoys. Here are the pictures! I'll post a few, but I encourage those who were there to check out the whole album. Sadly I didn't get everyone, but I did get some nice shots of a few people, especially the Leonards and my parents.

From Tovar Birthday 2008

From Tovar Birthday 2008

( Friends and Family )

( TMI Gross but funny )

Tovar and Dada laughing like maniacs



After much enthusiastic dancing, this video starts with a tired Tovar flopping around, who is then reenergized by a twirl from Dada.

Spriong!



Cheers!

We went to Miriam and Walter's wedding today. The kids were incredibly cute. Its a shame Sofia lives so far away, they were immediately best of pals :)

Videos:

Tovar and Sofia fall on their tochuses:



Sofia and Tovar groove to "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun:"



Patri twirls the toddlers:

Tovar rocks out to his keyboard demo songs with his blanky and binky:



Tovar and redaly discuss the ABCs:



Tovar tries on Mama's boots




( more video for the hardcore fans )

Tovar sends his love to elphie:

The book case is vertical with shelves close together, so he couldn't get very high, but he managed to hook both knees. We're going to need to move those soon ;)

Thanks to laughingstone, we now have video of Tovar's mad Pat the Bunny skillz ;)

Head bob, hand wave, and more ;)

I'm on a quest to get some good video of T doing his music grooving where he shakes his head and bounces to dance. I managed to capture it a few times, but not well, so I'm holding out for a good shot. In the meantime, some baby dj pirate booty ;)

This video (by daddy) is actually after Tovar calmed down a little, he *really liked* me playing the kazoo and was laughing hysterically about it for awhile ;)



( still shot )

_{p.s. My new videos should not be out of sync anymore, yay! I finally looked it up and saw that the problem was probably the audio codec I was using. After a few experiments, it turns out that "Qualcomm PureVoice" works.}

Now that T's not trying to eat the camera every chance he gets, I managed to get some video of him talking. Or at least babbling. The talking is hard to capture but by editing a few clips together I was more than able to make of for quality by volume.

A lot of baby babble from Tovar @ 10 months adjusted:



;)

p.s. In answer to the questions about the big scratch on his nose, he pulled part of our makeshift fence over on top of himself a few days ago. We'd taken into account that it was light enough that the weight wouldn't hurt him if he did manage to do as he did, but we didn't take the scratchiness factor into account. Babyproofing has improved since.

Yay, T's letting me get video again! ;)

Betty, Grandpa David, Becca and Bill came by to visit over the weekend. Much baby and WoW geekery was had :)



( more video and pics )

Even though most of the videos I take look roughly like this, I figure it shouldn't stop me from posting one once in awhile ;)

Right before this one he'd just figured out how to open the cupboard to the pots and pans by himself, so he starts off a little slowly, like "I don't know why you called me over here but it better be good," and then he gets happy because he realizes he's actually got a shot at the camera. To extend the footage at the end I leaned back and let him crawl over me to get to the camera.

So as not to have teased him without paying off, I capped the camera and let him hold it afterward, and then gave him the lens cap for a bit. He seemed to approve ;)




He can actually crawl about twice that speed when he gets *really* excited, but that's a bit harder to stage ;)

Also, pictures from our visit to Google for the pirate party, including a very cute Camilla grumpy bear ;)