Some of you may have picked up from previous posts that our eleven month old son Kyron loves to dance.  Ever since he was 3 months old, we have found that he loves music and often loves to dance along to his favorite songs!  During the Christmas season Kyron discovered a new favorite song, song by Elmo and Jamie Foxx ( in Elmo's Christmas Countdown) about the Nutcracker. 

Check out Kyron and his sweet dance moves...




I think he loves R&B!

  Since this is baby Kyron's first Christmas, Becky and I where so excited to see how Kyron would react when he met Santa for the first time.  You always hear the horror stories of young kids getting frightened when there parents pop them onto Santa's lap, so we were not sure what to expect with Kyron.

We had the opportunity to visit Santa last weekend at a private function and all told, Kyron did pretty well! 



The look on his face is priceless!  It almost looks like Kyron's famous "who the heck are you???" face!

He lasted almost a full minute on Santa's lap until the tears started to flow.  I think he did a great job given the fact his mom and dad placed him on some strangers lap and asked him to smile nice!  I do feel sorry for these Santa's as they must deal with terrified babies all day long.

I can imagine the Santa horror stories that parents must have! 

Merry Christmas!

  Well everyone, the day has finally arrived!  After over a month of "cruising" from couch to couch around the living room, our ten month old son Kyron finally took his first steps today!  I was fortunate enough to get some video of this adventure tonight, which I have posted below.

What is even funnier is the fact that Kyron does this while playing with my Ipod Touch! ( Ok seriously Apple, this is a pretty sweet product promotion! )  I love how he uses his fingers to try and scroll on the Ipod screen and I am not sure where he learned this from, but I assume it is simply from watching me use it?   After all this, I think I should buy him his own unit!

 Kyron has been getting better and better at standing on his own over the past few weeks, but was limited to a twenty second personal best time.  We both knew that it would only be a matter of time before he made the leap and starting walking. 

For about five minutes before we got this video, Kyron had attempted to walk from the couch to the open carpet with the Ipod, but fell after half of a step.  I am glad I kept the camera out to catch him in the act!




We are so proud of him!  I am actually kind of freaking out about this now, as I cannot believe how big our little man is getting.  Let the adventures begin!

Shane

  I had the good fortune of being interviewed this week in the Calgary Herald, for a story on daddy bloggers!  The story highlights the "new" trend of emerging dad blogs and sheds light on this small but growing segment of bloggers. 

The link to the article can be found here....

http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Daddy+bloggers+take+parenthood/3925964/story.html

Also, be sure to check out the other blog featured in this piece, http://getdaddysomegin.com/ as David has some awesome posts and his blog is hilarious! 

Have a great weekend!

Shane