Disneyland!

We took Sage to Disneyland last Friday. Here are some highlights:

Checking things out at the entrance

With Grandma on the Jungle Cruise

We found a spot to crawl around. Sage was minding his own business when a little girl (about 2) sees him, screams "Baybeeee!" and runs up to give him a big hug. He was taken a bit by surprise! He immediately grabbed her arms and threw them off! It was hilarious.

His favorite ride seemed to be the double-decker bus that shuttles people up and down main street. Go figure.

Looking at the pretty lights at "It's a Small World"

"It's a world of laughter, a world of tears. It's a world of hopes and a world of fears. There's so much that we share, that it's time we're aware..." Let's sing it again! Over and over and over and over.....

It got a bit chilly at night, but Sage is keeping warm!

Not at Disneyland, but...can you guess? A trip to L.A. wouldn't be complete without a visit to this place (that is, if you're traveling with Chris). Now, who (as a baby) does Sage look like in this picture?

11 days until we are in Toronto! Woo hoo!

The Sage man is 1!!! Here are a few pics of his birthday party:

The first thing he went for was the camcorder. Never mind the presents.

Eating a toy pager...Grandma got him this after he drooled on our cell phone and broke it.

Showing his teeth

Wow! Look at that stash! That's cousin Addy helping him unwrap.

Look at all this paper to play with! This is the best party ever!
Daddy helping out.
Time for cake! (A gingerbread cake with lemon frosting, in case you were wondering.)Mmm. More sugar than I've ever had in my life.

On Saturday we went to the parade of lights and tree lighting at Bass Lake. Sage got to ride on the Pines Resort float!

And he got to see Santa!

That's all folks!

It's Mommy again

We've got all kinds of new photos of Sage, and Daddy is to busy to post them. So Mommy's stepping in again. That means no pictures of planes or trains or pretty landscapes this time. If you want more of those you'll have to bug Chris. This entry is purely Sage.

For the last few weeks he is seriously into climbing...climbing the stairs, climbing mom and dad, and climbing anything else around. Open boxes are definitely a favorite.

He also loves making music of any kind!

Mommy saw this horse at the consignment store and couldn't resist! Sage's legs are a little short yet, but he still loves riding it with a little help!

What a great hairdo!

Halloween puppy

And who's the guy in the background with the funny-looking mask?

I told you he was musical!

There's that silly-looking guy again! Where does he keep coming from?

And here's Sage with the sage we planted after he was born.

Eureka! Something Sage will eat! He really liked the tofu feta mom made.

Last weekend we took Sage to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. He thought the fish were soooo cool! His favorites were the jellies, anything with tentacles, like shrimp, the otters, and fish that schooled, like the ones in this picture.

Whoa! Looking at fish is so exhausting!

After the aquarium we took Sage to the beach, thinking he would like to crawl around in the sand before the 3 1/2 hour drive home. Nope. He loved the beach a few months ago, but this time he hated it! He started freaking out if I even acted like I was going to put him down. In this picture he's looking like he thinks the ground is way too close.

So instead of playing in the sand we went flying. That was fun.

Hey, Sage! Shouldn't that sock be on your foot?

Let's see, news...Sage's third tooth popped through the day before yesterday, and his fourth just about to come in as well. Strangely enough, they are not his top front ones. The new tooth is to the right of the as-of-yet absent front right tooth. The one about to come through is next to his bottom front left. He's going to have one crazy smile!

About a month ago Sage started saying his first word (besides mama): "Uhrrrr" or "Buh-uhrrrr" aka "Bird"! He hasn't been saying it much lately, as the giant vultures who used to hang out in our tree (and who inspired the word) have mysteriously dissappeared. But he said it last weekend when we were in the aquarium aviary.

In exactly 15 days Sage will be one! Woo hoo!

That's all for now, folks!

Our new house, new cats & new teeth

I know what you're thinking, and we haven't published anything to the blog in a long time for a different reason.

We've moved to a new house here in the town of Oakhurst. It's really a pleasant place to live, although the house is a bit on the older side. Here is a photo. It's a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house with a woodstove, 2 floors, balcony and screened-in back patio that really rocks.

To go with the house, we adopted a pair of kittens. Their names are Charlie:

And Brooks, which is short for Brookscroft which is the road on which Amy and I first lived together.

We're not really sure of the gender of either of them, but we think they're both females.

Meanwhile, Sage has grown two bottom teeth which have remained impossible to photograph until I got a shot last Saturday morning.

After I took this photo we all went to Yosemite for the day, as an anniversary outing. We got some cool photos which I'll share...the first was taken at Glacier Point with famous Half Dome in the background,

The next on the road up to the point again with Half Dome in it,

And finally at the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias.

And I'm not sure what Sage is eating, but he hasn't seemed to get much of it in his mouth.

Sorry for not posting in awhile. We got a new computer and are without Photoshop which makes processing photos for web viewing a whole lot easier. But I will get more photos online soon.

It hasn't been that long since I've posted, has it?

Don't answer that.

Well we're in the final week before coming to Toronto for a few days so I thought I would flood the netwaves with more images of adventure and excitement. Starring Sage! Here he is just before bugging the cat, as he's apt to do.

We watched fireworks on the 4th of July on Bass Lake from Donna and Terry's boat. Here is Sage wondering why he's allowed to stay up so much later than normal.We went to San Francisco for a weekend away in early July, here are a few shots of the cable cars in the city by the bay.
We all drove across the Golden Gate Bridge for some evening photos on the other side. We also got to pose for a few. There was a heat wave going on in the Central Valley at the time, but it was so freezing cold and windy up there, we couldn't believe it. We had sweaters on the whole weekend.
The money shot!

Amy and Sage while wandering around the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park.

And a nice shot of lily pads.

Sage's first encounter with sand.

Back in the hills, Sage went in the spa with Donna.

Here's a photo from our weekend in Los Angeles. Amy and Jessica are posing on the grounds of CalTech University on Canada Day.

Sage isn't sure whether he likes solid foods yet...definitely not avocados. He does like plums, peaches and cucumber slices though. We're not giving him anything pureed, choosing to do a child-led introduction of solids, which means we give him real whole food. If he wants to take a taste then that's cool, if not then it will probably end up on the floor and life goes on!

Taking a bath in the sink...to be small and flexible like that!

Almost a peace sign!
Just yesterday he made his first shaky attempt at a crawl!
That's it for now!