10 mos and Christmas

Well our little guy is still growing! Dain is such a great kid. We can't believe that Dain is already 10 mos old!! Before we know it he'll be 1 yr!  He is growing fast and learning a lot these days.  He started waving "bye-bye" when we were in MN. He gives kisses (sometimes).  He loves to play copy cat ghames (see video with Tara, so cute!) He has started to stand without hanging onto anything, for about a second or two.  He's finally become an eating champ although he took a solid food strike when he was sick, can't blame him!  He still loves playing peek-a-boo and also being chased by Mommy or Daddy and then getting "tackled".  He's also turning into quite the climber, he loves Erik's parents stairs and would go up then several times a day when we were there.  Now that we're back home in our one level apt he is tring to find things to climb suck as his chair up onto the couch or onto the side table, the red chair, the desk! You get the picture! I have not gotten a picture of this since I am usually running over to make sure he doesn't fall.  I do like to cheer him on and be his spotter since he's just exploring like any kid should.   Oh his other most favorite thing to do is pull as many CDs from the rack as fast as he can esp. when we are trying to put them away. So I usually have to leave the pile of CDs until he's sleeping or he races over to pull out more and I'm telling you he can pull them out faster than we can put them back!

Anyway, enjoy the pictures!!




Playing peek-a-boo




Meeting Grandma and Grandpa C at the airport




Thanks for the old cell phone Grandpa. I love it!




Auntie Tara with her favorite elf.




Nice to meet you, Uncle John! (first time they met)



Merry Christmas!

 

Come play with me Grandpa!



Thanks for the Legos John and Erin.




The Carmean Family.



Playing piano with Grandma P.




The Peters Family




Dain and Grandpa P. or Opa.



I love the catepillar Grandpa C made for me.



Practicing waving with Grandma C.




Sleeping on Mamma while I'm sick.



Back home and doing what I love!

Hope you enjoyed!! until next time........

First Thanksgiving

Dain is now 9 mos old!! Wow, Time has flown.  Last month we got to spend his first Thanksgiving with our Seattleside of the family. Dain loved playing with Jonathan, trying turkey and sweet potatoes and hanging out with the family. It was a good time.  Here are some of the photos from that day and a few others thrown in. 



Helping Momma in the kitchen



Loving Fall leaves just like his Momma



Put your hands up and spread 'em!




Boys and a turkey




Playing with Cousin Jonathan!




Here you go Melissa!




Mmmmm, Turkey!




Two boys at play!




My crib tastes good!

Hope you enjoy!!

Have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 

Trip to Germany

Well we have just returned from a trip to Germany. We are slowly recovering from the jet lag, some colds and just getting used to being home again. We had a splendid time visiting with Artur, Ulla, and the rest of the family. We are really glad we were able to go before Dain got older. We also were able to do a little sight seeing in the area. Bavaria is just so beautiful. We had some great views of the Alps and the rolling farms fields where we were staying. Dain has many firsts on this trip. First plane ride (he did great!!). First shiner (hit it on the crib, not too colorful just swollen). Tried tomato, strawberry adn carrots for the first time and liked all of them. 3rd tooth came through (ok, not a first but close enough!). First time seeing snow fall, big huge fluffy flakes and he just stared and stared!! Anyway, here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure. I know that's why you're here anyway!  PS still haven't firgure out why some picture load sideways, you'll just have to turn your head. 

Dain's first airplane ride!



Lunch the first day in Germany with Artur and Ulla




Lunch at a wonderful Bavarian Gasthus




Tonya, Dain and Artur




Lunch with family




Erik, Dain and Artur




Tonya and Dain at Weiskirche (White Church)




Loving his first tomato, much to his mommy's surprise (she does not like raw tomatos)




See Dain's first shiner (left eye) just a little swollen. 



Ulla, Tonya and Dain in Landsberg



Enjoying lunch outside on a nice fall day




Happy in the sun




Mmmmm, ice cream




Ulla and Tonya with hyperative Dain




Dain's new Leiderhosen





We made it home!!



Dain's First Camping trip

I know I have promised this post over 2 weeks ago.  Well, As you can see I'm having some trouble getting it done. Partly because I have a 5 mo old and can't quite organized my day anymore.... to'do list?? Haa!  The other part is we have something funky with our newish computer and all the vertical pictures we add to blogger will not orient the right way. But I don't have that much time to try to figure it out and I'm not that computer savvy.. So I decided to load this post anyway, you can just tilt your head. Sorry!!

Camping overnight was wonderful and went really well.  Dain did great, the mosquitos were bad but we just kept him covered up.  Since this post is so late going up we've actually already taken him on camping trip #2, which wasn't quite as great but they can't all be,m can they?  Anyway, more on that one later. I promise I will try to post those pictures soon!

Enjoy!