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We’re all recovering from a cold. Thankfully we experienced this in Sun Diego where it’s been 75 and perfect each day.

Time with Asher is always so sweet. In the picture here I caught a moment of him playing content lay with every device and container in the cupboard. I love to watch him explore and learn. And boy does he do that quickly.

While we’ve been here he’s mastered pushing the doorbell. It is a resistant button and takes both his index fingers while he’s perched on a stool to get the needed height.

We don’t let him play with our cell phones but grandma Silvia has a 4 handset home phone system that Asher has learned to use. He managed to call his mom, using the redial key I presume, and I overheard the automated attendant for a medical insurance toll free number. I was going to excuse him if anyone answered his call but he’s fast on the keypad and disconnected the call well before the call was answered.

Today is one of the first times I’m out and about with Asher sans mommy. Right now Kathleen is at a yoga workshop with Ki McGraw at the Hawthorne Wellness Center and a group of wonderful yoga students.
Normally about now (12:30) Kathleen is nursing and putting Asher down for a nap. The napping goes well sometimes and other times not.
Well with today’s activities, I’m out with Asher to do the grocery shopping and make a trip to Laurelhurst Park to play on the awesome play area designed for 2-5 year olds. Asher likes the play equipment but he also likes to wander the park and check things out. For example, we were there yesterday and he roamed all over the area from the play equipment, to teeter-totters, to swings, then over to bang on the bathroom door ( I believe signaling to me that he’s seen me in there before), around the building to watch the bigger kids shag fly balls, and finally to the water fountain where I held him up for his first time drinking from one. Next he went behind the bushes to the utility metering equipment and pulled and tugged on the pipes, fittings and gauges. He was very intrigued.

He played with a 5 year old girl named Cypress who has a 9 month old brother named (another tree?). She was sweet and inclusive with Asher. Her grandmother took a couple pictures of Asher. That was nice of her.

It’s times like this, sitting in the back seat of the element watching Asher sleep and reflecting on our adventures and the joy he brings me and others that I find myself grateful to be so fortunate to be a father.
Now to dig into my book with the unknown amount of free time I have before he wakes and we go into Trader Joes to get those groceries.

Today a new lamp came in a nice big box. It looked like the kind of box a little boy who watched me intently put the lamp together would enjoy playing with. I handed it over to him and he quickly pulled most of the card board packing pieces out. It then looked like a perfect place for a couple pillows and a new cargo. I tossed a couple pillows in and then loaded Asher into the box. He really enjoyed pulling the box flaps over himself and maneuvering around his little ship.

I’ve noticed Asher has been making new faces the last few days. While he’s keen to the camera and often changes his intensity and focus when he senses the spotlight, I captured this today. They are more subtle here than I’ve seen but still worthy of recording.

It’s a quiet night and I’m reflecting on the fact that Asher will be 2 months old tomorrow. Nathan and Asher are sleeping soundly and I find myself in the dimly lit living room, not tired, yet feeling like I too should be in bed. Torn between the chance to catch up on folding laundry, practicing yoga, or writing in Asher’s keepsake baby book, I find myself oddly paralyzed in my solitude. Missing Asher and Nathan upstairs, I find myself drawn to the Mac, looking at photos of them on the screen and thinking about how much Asher has changed in these two months. He has recently discovered his hands, which he loves to stick in his mouth. It is so cute. He has also learned to smile and loves party-cake and peek-a-boo. He is such a joy!
The laundry will still be in the basket tomorrow and the yoga will be waiting for me like a good friend, but for now, I think it’s finally time to join my family in bed.

On a relaxing Sunday morning, with Asher laying in bed between us, we created an iMovie on our new iPad. We hope you enjoy.