Excursions with the boy

Since it's been so long since this day actually happened, I forgot what all happened.  But from these pictures, anyway, it looks like we took Scotty to Ace Hardware and to the grocery store on July 16th!

Here we are leaving Ace Hardware.  Where it seemed all the store employees were just oohing and aahing over little Scotty!

Then after Ace Hardware it was on to Safeway grocery store where we got Scotty his first balloon from us.  He was fascinated with it!

From the pictures of July 17th

Abuelito doing the "animal sounds" with Scotty.

Playing with his balloon outside

We kept thinking he was going to pop it!

In the picture below Scotty is pushing the pink button and he turned the aquarium on.  But the biggest surprise of the day was when we sat him up in front of the aquarium a little later.  He placed both hands on top of the aquarium and his feet must have been placed in the perfect position because he actually PULLED HIMSELF TO A STANDING POSITION right in front of me!  I was stunned!  We sat him again in front of the aquarium because Guillermo wanted to see him do it, and Scotty DID place both hands on the aquarium again but this time his hands slipped off as he tried to stand and he did a soft landing against one of the rails.  It is time to lower his mattress!

On July 18th, we started feeling like maybe we should take pictures, since we'll be leaving soon.  So, here's how THOSE came out.

Playing in his little "crawl around car"

He's been opening up the door to the car more.

And moving himself up closer to the steering wheel where he moves it back and forth like he's driving.  He also turns the key on and off and pulls up and down on the "accelerator", which is what he's doing in the photo below.

 It's getting harder to keep him in the car!