busy baby boy

this past weekend we went to iowa for great grampa pedersen's 75th birthday...but we don't have all the photos from that yet so that will have to wait until the next post....so we are going a little out of chronological order right now.  the past couple of weeks henry has decided that he needs to be a big boy.  he has started pulling himself up to a standing position! he wants to play with everything but his own toys, and has also suddenly decided that he likes pacifiers now--i think they must feel good on his sore gums or something (nope, still no teeth!)  He is growing a few more hairs on the back of his head too.

But what's probably way cooler than all of these things is that he is now starting to say dada too!  when austin picked him up from daycare last week, henry looked up at him and said dada, he's starting to associate the word with austin now!  :)  One thing that I wish I could add to this list is that henry has started to sleep through the night.....I pray that will happen very soon!  Mom and Dad are getting, well, tired sometimes :)

 AND henry isn't the only one making some changes lately.  mom is starting to do a lot of things she said she would never do like....use the tv as a babysitter, well, that is, henry watches veggie tales on a small dvd player when we travel, which we've been doing a lot of lately, and he really likes them!  in fact, those little videos buy us at least an hour of what would have been complete and totally misery :) car trips have been waaaaay better now.  I also use the back of my hand, the bottom of my shirt, etc. as a drool/snot rag, and can clean henry's face with a little lick of the finger and have figured out that a few germs will not kill henry-we no longer boil everything that falls on the floor-ha sooooo until I get the post up about this last weekend's trip to iowa, you will just have to watch this cute video of henry laughing and then splashing in the bathtub :)

(they were quite a bit longer, but we trimmed them for you...we know not everyone is as interested as we are in watching a five minute video of Henry pretty much doing the same thing over and over :)  )