Hangin outside and random videos

Lately Bears has been really pumped about exploring outside.  We seem to spend around 2-3 hours a days puttering about the neighborhood and talking about the various discoveries he makes.  It's pretty glorious.  Except on the really cold days.  He's got a giant polartec fleece suit for those occasions but I have yet to find such an item for myself.  Here he is exploring on a balmy 58° day.

He's gotten up to around 150 words now but I think that my favorite thing he says his gibberish.



He's got a love hate relationship with this Twinkle Twinkle video.  As a whole he thinks it's brilliant but at the end, the owl has to say goodbye to the star and it just breaks his heart.  Also, he was going through a phase of gagging himself at the time.  It makes for an interesting juxtaposition.



This one is from a few months back.  He's been really into saying "BOOM!!" and stomping about for quite some time now.  This was the first time that Ryan did his version of it and I think it cemented him firmly in place as Bears' hero.  You can just see the awe in Bears' eyes as he looks up at him.

Bears Love Parks

...and even more specifically, he loves the red ball on the front of the locking mechanism for his stroller.  He'd just taken a big lick of it and was going "MMMmmm!!"  I couldn't resist ordering this bear suit when I saw it was only $12 on ebay.  It even comes complete with a little bear tail:

Here he is foraging for berries that, conveniently enough, just happen to be in a bag

he scored big time by discovering this dreamy dirt pile

..and then finished the rest of his berries

Sick Bears

Anyone who knows Bears knows that he's always been far too busy to cuddle with the exception of when he was a newborn.  Because of that, it wasn't all bad when he came down with a tummy bug that left him throwing up for days and needing tons of snuggles.  I felt really bad for the poor little tyke and did everything I could think of to make him feel better but I can't deny that I was eating the whole experience up...with a few twinges of guilt here and there for loving it so much.  He had tummy troubles for about five days and every one of those days involved hours and hours of cuddling.  Since I've only gotten 1-second hugs out of him for well over a year, this was heaven.  We even cuddled up and watched a movie.  Well...half a movie.  He was still Bears after all and did eventually realize that he had more important things to do.  He was patient enough to let me spoon feed him broth every couple of hours and wanted to give out plenty of kisses.  I still feel a bit guilty thinking about it now but I would say that this easily ranks in my top 5 best Bears memories so far.  It was the first time in a long time that I really felt like a nurturing mommy instead of a slightly frazzled person just trying to keep up with her highly curious, adventurous, and (sometimes) troublesome cub.  Of course, it's nice to have him back to his very busy self.  I think,.  As I'm typing this I'm trying to teach him not to bite my arm or head-butt my leg...aggh

alright, grandma videos

I apologize for the really terrible audio.  it seems the mic on this camera doesn't have much of a sound threshold so either things are super quiet or deafening. ah well.

These first two feature chasing games and our constantly-torn-apart apartment




Counting with daddy


Hunting FLIES!!!


Random summer video of bears and his ball