It's been awhile...

Matthew is finally DONE! Thank goodness, I get almost as stressed during his exam time as he does. He is now done the necessary classes and never has to take any ever again (but he'll probably take one every now and then for interests sake, because that's the way he is). Now starts the meat of graduate studies Reeee-search. I am glad to have my husband back on evenings and weekends, though. ... however, in reality I haven't spoken to him in awhile as he got a new laptop from the department (a MAC book) and it's shiny and white and has awesome widgets [whatever those are] and he wasn't allowed to play with it until he finished exams...soooooo, if you get his attention, say hi for me :)

Oh yes, my life has gotten busy since Bronson learnt to crawl! Our days have been a chaos of bath's (and then more baths), "No, Bronson, cords are not toys!", outings to grassy areas where he can dirty himself crawling around, more baths, fighting the kid to get him to eat, etc, etc. We thought he might have started saying "Da Da" and associating it to dad, however recently the trilling "da da da da da daa da ddaaa da da daa" has been accompanied to pointing at pictures of men and my face too, so we're still mot quite there. No ma-mas but I think he's said moo moo a few times.

In addition to his 2 top teeth, Bronson has also gained some hair, the ability to reach things previously inaccessible to him and a strong personality. He's become much more social of late, as he has repeatedly demonstrated in outings to the park and visits with Keira from next door.

Keira & B chill in Keira's couch (she said "sit, sit!" and patted the space next to her)

On Saturday we went to a Caltech/JPL family potluck picnic at the CalTech park south of campus. There were quite a few families there and we met 4 new kids within Bronson's age range. He enjoyed crawling around to the new adults and kids, and especially checking out their rides [strollers], as he seems to have a real passion for wheels and things that turn in general. One kid, Julian, an 8 month old who's crawling like crazy took particular interest to B and followed him around the park a bit. They had a lovely time shaking the leaves on the bushes and headbutting each other. At one point B crawled right over and kissed him on the cheek! Seriously! They were pretty cute together and the parents were therefore forced to exchange contact info with us and we'll be setting up a playdate soon enough.

Here's Bronson crawling through his new toy - a giant starry tunnel!