Frogs and First Steps

While Ollie was taking a time-out this morning on the back porch he discovered a little frog in the crack between the pavers and the house. He screamed and cried because he was petrified of it, even after I told him a frog wouldn't hurt him. So I sent Jed over to get the frog, who has now become his favorite little pet.

This picture is just for the laughs- while trying to get a close up Jed decided to put his finger in his nose, I guess at least he wasn't trying to put the frog up his nose! Although when we were sitting on the grass Jed would open his hand or put the frog on his lap and the frog would jump right off into the grass, so at one point he did put the frog inside the leg of his shorts to try and keep him contained.

Ollie liked the frog and even picked him up a few times, but he was never all that comfortable with him. Instead of holding him he put him in the water to see if he would swim. 

While Jed was sent inside to get the kittens out of the house, he put Ollie in charge of watching the frog. He was kind enough to find a piece of wood and gave it to the frog as a "boat." 

Meanwhile Rider was out and about doing his best to walk. He is good at pulling himself up and even just standing up without holding onto anything, and over the past week he has been brave enough on a few separate occasions to take a single step, but he immediately falls. Today he crawled out to the Radio Flyer coaster and had all kinds of fun pushing it around. Ollie thought that looked kind of boring so he jumped in to help him ride it.

That tongue!

Taking steps

Making sure I saw him

So proud of himself!

This boy- he is just the happiest baby! He is at the stage where EVERYTHING goes into his mouth. The only times he gets mad at me are when I have to try and pry open his jaws of steel to swipe his mouth. He got a few leaves today but we both seem to be surviving it!