Walking on Mothers Day

We celebrated Mother's Day with the entire Christol Family in the South Bay this Sunday. We had supper at Bela Restaurant in Saratoga and visited a couple of the Christol's house rentals including their former home on Herriman.

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Peter & Stacy Wedding
Mormor and Grandpa Christol came over on Saturday to baby-sit Myles while Mom and Dad went to Peter and Stacy's wedding at the Hillside Club in Berkeley. We had a great time and really enjoyed the company and the food!

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Unassisted Walking
The big development in Myles' life this week is that he can now walk short distances unassisted! He still reaches out for our hands, but he has shown that he is capable of walking without any assistance at all. Here is a short video we took earlier in the week when we were trying out a "walking assistance device" called Walking Wings.

Chateau Le Cache Flow

The big event this week was our trip down to San Luis Obispo to visit the grand opening of "Chateau Le Cache Flow".

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Great-Grandma Lydia Turns 90!!
Grandparents Miller hosted Great-Grandma Lydia 90th birthday party at their new house (Chateau Le Cache Flow) in San Luis Obispo. We drove down Saturday morning and stayed thru Monday. It was great to get the extended Miller/Heywood families together and everyone had a great time celebrating Lydia's 90th!

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Ringing Ears and Aching Backs
Myles is now a pro at adult-assisted walking. He wants to walk every chance he can get! And if he isn't walking, he is yelling/crying to be walked. Unfortunatley for his parents, this leads to aching backs from bending over to assist his walking, and ringing ears from his loud demands to be walked. But we love it all!

Bump On The Head
With all of his walking, its no surprise that Myles took his first big fall this week. While holding on to a table he bent over to picked something up with *both* of hands, and landed on his head. Oops. He got a nice round red bump, but seemed more upset that he wasn't still walking.

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Poo In The Pot
In other news, we are happy to report that our early potty training may actually be having an effect. Myles has now had a hand-full of bowel movements while sitting on his toilet, and we believe he is even indicating to us (via raising his hands) that he is ready to move his bowels. So far so good.

Play Eat Play

This week has been crazy busy. Dad went away to the music festival Coachella with his friend Ches. They rented an RV and drove down late thursday night. They arrived at Coachella late friday morning and enjoyed the day of music. Then they got back in the RV and drove to Las Vegas to meet up with some early YouTube employees for some fun, celebrating all the hard work everyone has put into YouTube. Then they drove back to Coachella for Sunday music enjoying the sounds of Pink Floyd and Justice.

While Dad was off driving around the south West, Myles and Mom went to Mormor's and Grandpa's house with Auntie Sarah for the weekend.

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This was lots of fun and Myles got to ride on his fire truck again which of course he loves. He even started to accidentally push himself along!! Now that he can touch the ground we expect his desire to push himself will move along quickly. We also went out to dinner where Myles drank from his first straw. He doesn't breath while drinking from the straw yet but we're sure he'll figure that out soon. We're trying to feed him more finger foods including a delicious strawberry.

Da Boyz Week III (10 months)

Dad was home all this week using another family-leave week from work. Myles turned 10 months old on Monday, and it was a week packed full of adventure and fun.

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tuesday - MusicTogether
On tuesday we went to MusicTogether class with Jimmy and The Twins who joined us for a free trial class. Myles seemed to enjoy himself more than last week (when he was sick with the PFR Virus), and The Twins,,, well, they were all over the place. :)

wednesday - Habitot
We meet Jimmy and The Twins again on wednesday morning for an adventure at Habitot, the East Bay's hands-on children museum. We all had a blast!

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thursday - One Handed Action
On thursday we visited the park and Myles showed off his one handed walking skills.


saturday - Steam Train
After Mommy's BBC class on saturday we visited the Tilden Park Steam Trains. Myles is still completely enthralled with the train.


sunday - Erik Says Good Bye
We capped off the week by inviting ourselves over to Erik and Helen's house to see Erik before he heads off to India next week for the next phase of his career.

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