Leelee in Texas

This wasn't all he did in San Antonio, but Christian did spend a good majority of our downtime finding and placing random articles from the hotel into a receptacle - in this case the hotel ice bucket.

We loved San Antonio and I have a feeling that Christian enjoyed himself. He got a 4 day pass from his healthy lifestyle back in Portland and ate Tex-Mex every single meal (including breakfast of leftover Tex-Mex). I think he was in hog heaven. One of our favorite restaurants, Boudro's, happened to be on one of our favorite parts of San Antonio, the famous Riverwalk. Christian and I jogged (alternating walking of course) along the Riverwalk every morning while Dae was at conference.

The beautiful Riverwalk

Lunch

At Boudro's. He loves when we place something on his head (like a Boudro's coaster)

Everything is bigger in Texas, so they say, but the one thing which was definitely smaller than expected was the Alamo. I will admit I knew almost nil about the Alamo. Dae, who isn't even a native American, had to explain "Remember the Alamo" even after I referenced trusty Wikipedia. Anyway, it was pretty cool to see, but it was tiny! Christian - unimpressed.

I doubt he will "remember the Alamo" - haha!

It was my personal mission to cram in as much Mexican food as humanly possible. Mexican food is not high on Dae's food chain and I knew, with the Mexican-food monopoly in San Antonio, that this would be my one chance to eat it with minimal whining. It worked! Ha! (And now we are thoroughly tex-mexed out. The minute we got to Portland we threw a load of laundry in and rushed over to the closest sushi joint in our neighborhood!)

At La Margarita in Market Square, home to the most delicious flour tortillas I have ever had in my life. Dae agreed.

Practiced walking while waiting for our table. Funny story, while we were waiting, we heard "Party of 8 for Longoria" being called and "Party of 2 for Parker" being called. I strained my eyes for a star sighting, but to no avail.

Hotel pic. Leelee loved this brown log pillow. He was rolling around and laughing up a storm!

Miscellaneous photos from this past week:

Yes, Hipstamatic is back! Christian and toothpaste (which he loathes, by the way. Biggggg sigh.). And yes, he is wearing his Christmas Hanna Andersson pajamas that probably fit him well at about 3 months of age. We are running a little low on the PJ's and are awaiting our next shipment courtesy of Didi Robertson.

Manning his rig at HMart. Look at that sheer concentration!

Forgot to mention that he is now a master of saying "baby", "mama", "dada", "eeeee" and "Jabba". He loves talking. Strangers always tell us how much he talks (for example, on flights, in cars, on shuttles). We don't really know where this comes from, because although I am (by a longshot) the more talkative of the two of us, it's not like I can just deliver a monologue on the fly! Christian, on the other hand, talks so much, and it usually starts with "Jabba" this and "jabba" that. I've deduced that Christian must hear me talking (nagging) Dae all the time so he is learning all my lovely ways!

Other very random musings:

1) We can't decide whether to cut his hair or not. It is getting a little wild, but it's fun to see how curly it will be.
2) I am majorly waffling back and forth between cloth vs. disposable diapers. I can't even bring up the topic to Dae...he refuses to believe I might actually implement cloth diapers and that he might have to deal with poop (on a much more intimate level!)
3) I finally taught Christian something that was 100% me (and not nanny!). I taught him how to pump his fist when I say "choo choo". Such gratification!
4) Christian loves "itsy bitsy spider" and everytime we are almost finished singing the song he begins to do his air clapping, as if to say "yay!". It's really cute.