Happy Mother's Day!

Hey, so it's Mother's Day! Awesome! I hope all the moms out there are celebrating and enjoying the day. Kate and Cole and I are thinking it's a nice day for a walk in the sun, because yesterday it was all monsoonie and super rainy and chilly. Which sucks, because yesterday was the March of Dimes, which is a walk for babies and NICUs and things, all of which we think are important. We went down town to the Hatch Shell (appropriate much?) to the NICU reunion tent so we could say hello to all of our nurse, doctor, and respiratory therapist friends. We didn't see Liz, (but apparently she's knocked up! Yay!) and Stacy was out galavanting with her hunky boyfriend or something (awesome) but we did get to spend lots of time with Grace, which was so super fun! She rocks. It was perfect timing for Cole to show off his new trick: fully unassisted walking! He wandered all over the tent, accidentally grabbing random peoples' butts and collecting empty candy wrappers and used dixie cups. That's what toddlers are supposed to do right? All of the NICU people were thoroughly impressed with his perambulation and he kicked it up a notch by dancing to the live rock n' roll tunes the band in the Shell was pumping out. His version of dancing is waving his arms around and bobbing a little, and it is hilarious. He was a frigg'n star, and he loved being the center of attention. Huge success! Tons of fun! Yay for babies and NICUs and Grace!

If you want proof that he can walk, here's a silly video that we took a couple days ago. YouTube made it seem like sped up film, but we don't mind.



Hmm, I just noticed that Cole put some graham cracker bits under the space bar.

Also, there's this video which is taking the universe by storm (be sure to have the audio CRANKED because doppler shifted giggling baby is awesome, but quiet):



We had gone to spend some time with the Steins in Long Beach, and with all of Kate's siblings in attendance, there was sure to be some hijinks. And what can we say, Cole loves hijinks!

Speaking of Australian flightless birds, we totally saw an emu the other day at the zoo!



Cole had fun.


We saw a BUNCH of animals!

Scary Mandrills


Purty Peacocks


Snoozy Lions


Groovy Gorillas


And MORE! To see all of the stuff we saw, here's a link to the Flickr Album!

I think that's all the news we got so far. We're going to go get some Pino's Pizza (with orange soda) because it's Kate's favorite.