Damien got to meet his newest cousin last weekend: Guinivere Moffett - Paul & Jan’s first baby.

He had a fun time showing her how to play hide and seek:

And giving her hugs while she sat in his bumbo chair:

Damien spent a great deal of time last weekend with this bucket filled with cloths that he took from my dishcloth/towel drawer. He would empty it out in various places, and then pick them up one at a time and put them back in. And once they were all in, he would cram them down nice & tight so he could carry them to the next location and do it all over again. It kept him entertained for several hours (or maybe just minutes) at a time!

We also spent some time out in the leaves last week and got some pretty good pictures.

Today Damien high-fived me after he farted exceptionally loud.

(single tear) They grow up so fast…

Oh, and he took his first (self initiated) steps on his own, if that’s important?

We’re still around, and still taking lots of pictures of Damien. We kind of forgot about this site for awhile, so here’s a bunch of new pictures to get us caught up.

Damien has started crawling up onto things - chairs, stairs and now into his wagon:

It makes it harder to just leave him in a room to play now as he can get into so much more stuff as he figures out how to climb up higher.

He’s still not walking on his own - though he’ll gladly hold your hand and walk along with you. He _loves_ to push around his wagon and walk around the house with it:

Sorry for the lack of updates. We’re busy trying to finish a patio and enjoy the outdoors before winter comes again…. anyway. Here’s Damien eating breakfast. EXCITING!

Password is ‘damien’

Damien Eating Breakfast (13 Months) from Chris Enns on Vimeo.

(password is damien) - Click here to watch the HD version

Here’s Damien’s 2nd attempt at climbing up our stairs. Only a couple slips. I don’t want to ruin the ending for you, but I will say he doesn’t fall to his doom.

Happy Birthday (a couple of days early - 24th is his actual birthday) Damien! 1 year old now. It’s hard to believe how much has changed in his life, and ours, in that 1 year.

Update: Way more pictures available here if you’re interested.

Its been a while since we’ve posted, but I thought I’d share a few things that Damien’s done lately. He seems to take on more and more of Chris’ traits everyday. Yesterday we were at Matteo’s 3rd Birthday. With lots of kids to play with, you’d think Damien might enjoy the interaction. But what does he do instead? After looking stunned & overwhelmed at everyone for a while:

He finds the safest, quietest place in the whole room to just hang out by himself.

Once he got in there, he was quite happy!

Chris & I talked about it on the way home, and we both thought it was likely something he would do as a kid too.

One more cute story…. the other day I was typing a quick email with Damien on my lap, but he kept on wanting to type himself. So after getting a bit frustrated with him, I set him down on the floor. About a minute later, I look behind me and he’s made his way to our closet and pulled out the keyboard from the old computer. It gave me a good laugh (and I worried that he knows too much about computers already!).

Damien’s been going back and forth on whether he’s going to sleep through the night for the last couple of weeks. It could be teething or it could be just that he’s decided he’s not going to sleep just to test us.

But he’s still just gotta smile and we cave. He’s going to have the run of our lives.