Get out the Vote

I love it when babies become activists!

This is little Caroline aka C's girlfriend.
How could he not love her?? I mean it's obvious she's a democrat!

Stairway

Just today I was talking to Anne about gates, they just installed them at thier house for Sweet Caroline (who is younger than my C). So I pondered to myself, I wonder if my C can climb stairs.

He's actually quite the proficient little climber, he did it 3 times in bare legs, and then I let him climb 1/2 the way up in his PJ's to get upstairs for bed.

Pajama Time

On our vacation Gappa reimised about reading to his boys when they were growing up, so when I was getting C ready for bed and noticing that he was admiring all the books I asked him if he wanted to read to C. He read a few books and wouldn't you know that after he read the books and I nursed C, he went right to sleep without fussing at all!

Gappa reading Pajama Time to C.

Home Again

We returned to the East Coast to find moderate tempartures, but our systems were still in shock. Look at little C in his stroller, I don't think he enjoyed putting his shoes back on.

I almost forgot to mention, he cut 2 teeth while we were on vacation. A top tooth (for a total of 2) and another bottom one (for a total of 3). Even with all that pain, he was a really good baby.

Favorite Vacation Picture

Family Pictures from the DR

We all enjoyed ourselves while we were on vacation, I'm not sure if Gamma and Gappa had more fun playing with C or if Eric and I had more fun just relaxing while C was being taken care of. In any case there were many many good pictures of our fun trip, here are more than a few:

International Traveler

Remember the passport photos? We'll we finally got use of the passports. We traveled to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic with Gamma and Gappa.

C enjoyed the leasuirely pace of Punta Cana. His schedule went something like this:

Wake up

Eat
Swim with Gappa
Stroller Ride with Gamma for nap time

Eat
Swim
Stroller Ride with Gamma for nap time

Clean up for dinner

Eat

Sleep...

repeat that for 7 days!

Swimming with Gappa

Strolling with Gamma

Camping???

Silly Mommy always enters (free) contests and occasionally we win something. This time it was a coleman tent from Marlboro. Sometimes when you go to bars you get on a mailing list because you sign up to get a free Zippo lighter which mean that you'll get junk mail from Marlboro forever even though you're a non-smoker (who doesn't love free stuff)... anyway as best as I can remember, back in the summer I apparently filled out a telephone survey which then entered me to win some fun stuff. 6 months later we arrive home to a package, which of course, Eric asks what did you buy... I ponder for a moment and really can't think of anything. I open it the minute we get inside to find this beautiful 7x7 coleman tent! C seems to think it's pretty cool.

Thanks Marlboro!

Lunch Bunch

Prior to having a baby perhaps we should have bought stock in Red Robin. It happens to be the most kid friendly restaurant with a decent menu for the parents!

When the girls gather with the babies we nearly don't have to decide where we will meet Red Robin always seems to be the easy choice. So in Mid January after Caleb's check up we met Jenn with J and Jody with O for lunch.

Here are some of our lunch bunch pics:

J, O and C

J

O

C

10 Month Stats Update

We went to the peditrician last week for a couple more shots and a check up to see how he's developing. I love our new peditrician!!! But anyway, he had a major growth spurt legnth wise! She was happy to see that he is eating a lot of finger foods and gave me the go ahead to phase in whole milk at 11 months. He is no longer a baby, we looked back at old viedo and he's already looking like a little boy, I'm sure as he gets more and more hair he will really start to look like a big kid!

Poor Polly!

Polly is our highchair, she received a 3rd degree burn when my ability of multi-tasking was put to the test. We all had a good laugh, but only after we found out that we can get a replacement tray.

C was safe playing in the other room during this incident, so no one was hurt except the innocent high chair tray!

Messy Eater

C has decided that any food that is mashed or liquid like in form is far more fun to play with than actually eat. Last night the yogurt ended up more in his hands and on his face that in his tummy. The only way he will even take a few bites is if I let him play with it first. He is insane about his finger food!

Grandpa and Granny Visit

Dad and Darlene came to visit one last time before they take the year long adventure to Israel. They brought Caleb a cute learning lawn mower toy, so that he can follow Eric while Eric cuts the grass. I think it's a brilliant idea! I didn't get a ton of pictures, but Granny Darlene taught C how to blow kisses (starts with his hand in his mouth, and when he extends his arm he says "yeah") and how to make his Monkey toy play peek-a-boo. We all had a great time and will miss them very much in the year that they are gone, but we look forward to keeping up with each other on Skype.

Wake up Call

C wakes up exactly like I do... he doesn't want to, ever!

He's so funny stretching and whining a bit, just can't seem to open his eyes sometimes, but really who can blame him at 6:30 am!

10 Months with Jack

I neglected pictures at 9 months so I made sure to get them this month. He's finally the size of Jack, where does time go? I think this month he may have been slightly afraid of the monkey beside him.