My baby is growing up - today he went cold turkey without his bottle. We found a great sippy cup at Walmart that has a straw and he loves it. He is a pretty easy going kid and it didn’t even seem to phase him that he didn’t have a bottle.

We also went all day today without any baby food. He strictly ate table food today with some Gerber graduates diced pears. Its going to be nice not having to buy all of those jars of baby food. Now comes the great experimentation with table foods to find stuff that he likes.

Also, he is able to stand up by himself without having to hold onto anything. More and more his preferred mode of transportation is walking but he still does crawl some. He did his Mowgli crawl for me today across the kitchen floor which still cracks me up!

If you want to see a very short video of Drew walking, here is the link:

http://www.kazmir.net/images/CometoMama.mov

Well, Drew is now the walking machine. He is still pretty wobbly but he is walking really good! Mom and dad got to see him on the webcam when he was walking back and forth between me and Peter and each time he was getting better and better. Later this evening he walked the entire length of the kitchen and he is just so proud of himself when he does it!

We made it home safely last night and man its good to be home! Sorry I didnt post anything in the past couple of days but while in Wisconsin we had very slow dialup and I just didnt bother with it.

Drew now has 8 teeth. Tooth #6 and #7 came in while we were in Cleveland and I just noticed #8 broke through today. And last night he took 5 steps on 3 different occasions and I actually got to see them! YAY!

Drew is taking more and more steps by himself. He took 3 steps today and I missed it! But Peter saw it! He also took 2 more steps tonight at the hotel room and wouldn’t you know- I  missed it again!

Drew and Da-da

Riding on the luggage rack

Playing in the pond at the Villa

That has a two-fold meaning! Drew learned to go down the stairs at Auntie Jane’s house today! He went down backwards and didn’t fall once!

And he took 2 unassisted steps today! He is starting to stand unassisted for longer periods of time now but still when he really isn’t paying attention. And when we got back to the hotel I put him on the floor and he stood by himself and then took 2 steps to the TV! YAY!

4 generations of Biers

Nana and our family

Looking through the huge fish tank at the Villa

Walking with Nana

Walking faster than Nana

I tell Drew all the time “Kissies for ma-ma” and he gives me the sweetest kissies!

This was taken out in Uncle Tom and Aunt Dorothy’s backyard. It was a beautiful day today- it was 74 degrees and no mosquitos!

Drew playing with his carseat waiting to board the plane

Me and Drew just after boarding

Looking out the window of the plane

Sleeping on the plane. He slept for about an hour and a half!

Drew recently learned to wave bye-bye and in this picture he was doing that. He just wiggles his fingers when he waves but it is the cutest thing! The other thing this picture portrays is his new found interest in putting a spoon into cups! Peter let him play with an empty yogurt cup and his spoon and it kept him busy for like 20 minutes!

Look at his cutie hawaiian shirt! And his new haircut! Too cute!

Some cute pictures from today- after Drew got up from his nap he decided he wanted to crawl in his toy box! I love the last one- too bad it turned out a little blurry.

Sorry for the glare on this one but I thought the pic was too cute not to post!

We went out to do some errands today and while I was in Ulta buying girl products (not THOSE kind- hair products!), Peter and Drew went down to Best Buy- a guys dream! When I was done I walked down there and was trying to find my guys and I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned around and it was Ronda- one of Drew’s nurses from the NICU! This was the first time that she got to see Drew since we left the NICU over a year ago (man I can’t believe its been that long!) and he of course was his charming self!

Tonight we had a little incident with Drew- something upset his stomach and let’s just say that my carpet got the raw end of the deal with that. Poor guy- I think he lost all of his dinner. And to top it off he was sneezing like crazy too so we gave him some Benadryl and some pedialyte and he pretty much crashed before he even got to drink half of it. Hopefully it was just something he ate- he wasn’t running any fever and after the “incident” he got down and played and jabbered like nothing happened.

Last thing for tonight- a new scrapbook page is posted on my scrapbook blog! Check it out! 

I have done another LO of Drew- check it out on my scrapbooking page- link on the right!

We went to a birthday party for Andy at Mark and Renea’s house tonight and Drew had a great time! He got on one of those spring horsey thingy’s and he loved it! I would tell him “bouncy-bouncy” and he would start bouncing up and down on that thing!