High chair

Oh, and at dinner tonight Joshua sat up in a high chair in the restaurant for the first time, instead of being strapped in his car seat. He was so completely thrilled to be able to sit up, look around, grab things off the table and play with them ...

He is very interested in exploring new objects and textures right now. He spent a long time this evening just running his hands over a paper napkin, squeezing it into a ball and then letting it go, pulling at it, rubbing it, etc. Then he spent another long time tearing it into a million tiny bits. Yup, he's a boy.

Sam and I were reading excerpts from her weblog this morning at breakfast, going over particularly cute incidents that had happened when she was between 1 and 2 years old. She loves hearing about herself when she was younger, and hearing about things that she did. It's funny -- I remember very few of the incidents that we wrote about, even though they made such an impression on us at the time. All the more reason to get back to making regular entries here.