Oh, yeah....Easton's walking

Easton has been walking more than crawling for about a week now, but I keep on forgetting to get a video and posting it! He started walking a little bit after he turned 11 months, but it wasn't very impressive. A few steps here, a few steps there....no biggies. Well, now he knows what's up. My friend Sarah calls him the "unconfident walker" because he'll walk across the room and for no reason, stop and start crawling. I don't think he believes he can walk! He's so funny.

Easton's One Year old now!

Easton turned one year old exactly a week ago! On Saturday, we had a great party. Easton ate a cake...pretty much all of it! We didn't think he had it in him, but we were wrong. These two videos have Easton eating the cake- the first one he's very conservative and in the second, he's going all out!
We also got some one-year pictures taken of Easton and you can check out some of them at www.talleyimages.blogspot.com. They were great and Addie did a wonderful job- even in the 90 degree heat!
We also have some new pictures on facebook. Here's the link: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=132009&id=547545638&l=120e9149e5

Pulling his load...or shall I say pushing

Ok, everyone. We know it's been a while since we blogged and we're sorry! It's hard being gone from Mississippi for so long- it takes a while to get back into normal life!

Here's a clip of Easton helping us check out of the hotel in St Louis. What a big helper!

Here are also some pictures of us at the Jesse James house in St. Joseph MO.

Easton and I in the Jesse James house- the house he and his family lived in and also the one he was shot in.

A Victorian outhouse- authentic!

It was a dreary day , but we still enjoyed ourselves!

Above the gun but below that picture is the supposed bullet hole. Before it was on display to the public, people had taken chunks of the hole and this is it today.

Easton and Emily make sweet, sweet music together

Today, Meredith went to go get her hair done, so the babies had a play date. In the Branco house, the piano is one of the main attractions for Easton and I thought Emily would like it just as much. I was right! I was cleaning in the kitchen and they were laughing and with each other while they banged the piano. I recorded the tail end as they were winding down---but they were still being super cute.

Here' Easton playing a solo. He knows how to turn on "beats," so he looks like a DJ. He also has some interesting ways of playing the piano. (Hint: It involves teeth!)

The Columbus Pilgrimage

We're only through week one of pilgrimage, but we're having such a great time so far! Sherilyn has already hosted at 4 houses, I've hosted twice, and Eastie has done none. I don't think he's picking up the slack like he should! Anyway, we took some pictures and video from this past week. More will come for sure!

Sherilyn at the Waverley Mansion

Crystal at The Errolton

Sherilyn at Rosewood Manor

Sherilyn in the gardens at Rosewood Manor


Crystal and Easton at the gardens at Rosewood Manor

Easton playing in a fountain at Rosewood Manor

Pots and pans...already

I took pictures to show either how mobile Easton is or that I let him get into everything (and take pictures of him while I let him), but I let him get into the pots and pans. When he saw I had the doors open, he was sucked in like a moth to a flame! Here are some pics I took--keep in mind I didn't help him get into that thing, so everything he's doing he did it himself.

Easton's First Week of Crawling

Easton learned how to crawl on March 1 and for the past week, he has discovered a whole new world! I spent the week documenting what he's been up to.

Why does he gravitate towards the breakable things?

Wassaaaaaaappppp!

I eat crunchy foods now that I have 8 teeth!

Dad gets to fly at work, so I get to fly when he gets home from work.

To think that just 5 days after the big snow here we had a "picnic" in front of our house.

I say if grass is good enough for goats, it's good enough for Eastie!

We were raking the backyard on Sunday and Easton took a nap outside- and was asleep for an hour and a half! He smiled when he woke up and saw that he was still outside.