What's new with Willem?

Okay, so I'm playing catch up with the blog today as you have probably already noticed....

So last week we started giving Willem his own plate and spoon at dinner. He was so excited to have a plate like everyone else. He's very good at scooping the food into the spoon and bringing the spoon to his mouth. It's just a struggle to keep said food on the said spoon the entire route to his mouth. But he doesn't seem to care, he's just excited to be doing it.

One of our nicknames for Willem is monkey because he is quite the climber. Like his father, Willem is extremely patient. We went out to dinner last weekend and ended up having to wait for an hour and a half before getting to the table. Willem was happy as could be as there were so many new people to watch and lots of furniture to climb. You can't tell from the picture, but on the other side of the glass was a table of people eating. Willem found an opening between the glass and the counter and was sticking his hands through trying to get to them. He was definitely entertaining the guests.

Last Monday we took an baby massage and yoga class at Whole Foods. Willem was the youngest in the yoga class but he had a blast. He loved watching the other kids in the class. This was the first play group type of activity we've done and since he's not around a lot of kids we weren't sure what he would do. Well we were all sitting in a circle (including the parents) and the older kids crawled into the middle to be closer to the instructor and Willem crawled right out of my lap to sit right next to the other kids. He looked back occasionally to say hi but was happy as could be. As we were leaving, Willem was standing up against the door and a little girl was on the other side, he was just laughing and laughing about having their hands at the same place on the door. We will definitely be doing more playtime with other kids when we get to Phoenix!