Proud Parents

It might be silly how the little milestones make us so proud. T hit another one yesterday and I had to share. First he sat in a highchair just like big babies do (or actually a booster seat because we don't have enough room for a highchair right now)! Then I fed him a rather big bowl of rice cereal and he ate it all up. He was so adorable in his chair. He just sat there content while we ate our dinner. It is so amazing watching him grow. We get so excited to see him learn and do new things.

T patiently waiting for some good stuff.

T has got a huge mouth. He took really big bites.

T is looking more and more like a little man everyday. Look at that happy smile. Rice cereal definately doesn't make me that happy.

Christmas Season

Saturday was a day full of Christmas. Nothing will get you more into the spirit than snow and gingerbread houses. It was our good friends birthday and to celebrate they had everyone over to make gingerbread houses. It was a perfect day for it, the snow was falling, Christmas music was playing, we had a merry Christmas time. This season is all about fun family activities.

A Winter Wonderland

We had our first snow fall of the season on Saturday. We woke up to about in inch of snow, just enough to cover everything. I was so excited to show T the snow. We got all bundled up and trekked outside. He didn't seem to be too amused, but we got some cute pictures.

T made his first snow angle.

I love this picture. My two favorite people!

Some day he will be just as excited about the snow as I was.

First Christmas!

We got decorations for the tree. I love our little Christmas tree and had to show a picture of it. The tree is fake, the ornaments are non breakable, perfect for future Christmas' with T running around.

We are getting into the Christmas spirit around here. We got a Christmas tree!! We are very happy to spend this Christmas with T. I keep on thinking back to last Christmas, we were barely pregnant. I kept thinking "next Christmas we will have a baby" and now it is a year later and here he is. It's crazy how fast a year can go by. We are all about celebrating T's many "firsts". We are especially excited to celebrate his first Christmas. Here he is in front of his first Christmas tree. Don't you love that Santa hat?!

Also today was T's 4 month birthday. Happy Four Months to you T!

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Baby Faces!

I finally captured a great picture of T's crying face. This is the face he makes when is working himself into a cry. So precious! Here he was crying because Dad wouldn't stop singing.

We love T's faces! We have highlighted a few of our favorites here. He has many. We find our selves laughing at them often. Sad as it might be, I love his crying face. His bottom lip curls and his eyes squint (I should have taken one to show but I never think to take a picture of him crying),my heart just melts. Its fun for us to see his personality come out in his facial expressions. He is changing so fast, thank goodness for cameras. We get to capture (or try at least) each new face. He is starting to find laughter also. Check out the cute video.

Smiley Face!

Confused stare face

Drooling face

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday D!! We started this journey together three years ago and it has been the best three years. Now we have grown from two into three and I could not be happier. We are so excited to celebrate you today. Wish you the best day! Your first birthday as a Dad! We love you oh so much. May our days together continue to get better and better!!

First Halloween

We hope everyone had a Happy Halloween. We took our lil chicken camping. Our good friends had the great idea to spend Halloween in the woods. Who wouldn't want to spend one of the scariest days of the year in the forest? It was a beautiful day, almost 70 degrees. It was perfect camping weather.

Our adorable chicken doesn't look happy to be in that costume.

This is where all the magic happened.

Our little traveler....

We packed up T for another family trip this past week. Since he's been born he has been in 6 states. We have been able to tag along on some of D's business trips. I think he has finally gotten used to his car seat, because this last trip to Chicago took 6 hours and he did amazing. We are so grateful to have such a good baby. He was able to take good naps on the way, which is good for everyone.

T got to see Harpo Studios, where M's favorite shows is taped.

The Cubs may never win a world series in T's lifetime, but at least he got to see their stadium.

T has experienced a lot of firsts on this trip including trying his hand at the wheel....

...and the dashboard. He had some confessions to make. He seemed to like the view.

We had a great trip. It is fun to see the world with T. We just hope he might appreciate it some day.

Two Month Check-up

T had his 2 month check-up today. He is a perfectly healthy growing baby. He is 11 lbs 6 oz (38th%), 23 in. tall (67%) and head size 15 in. (50%). We are so happy to have such a healthy baby. But he did have to endure 5 painful shots. He screamed and even cried real tears. Luckily the nurse was super fast and gave him some colorful band-aids. His reaction to those nasty shots has been good. He slept most of the day.

Welcome to the Family T!!

T took his first airplane trip at 7 weeks. We were off to Seattle for a two week trip to meet a lot of people. He was a perfect baby, he slept most of the trip. We got comments like " I didn't even know there was a baby on the plane," we were very pleased!

We arrived on Wednesday night and the next Morning got in the car to take a 5 hour trip to Spokane to spend a few days with D's sister and her family! T was such a trooper, he lasted about 4 1/2 hours and then was ready to get out, as was everyone else.

We had a great time in Spokane. T loved being with his cousins. They were helpful and told me they like their cousin.

We came back to Seattle and spent a few more great days with D's family and got to see some friends.

The last week we went down to Olympia to see M's family. He was spoiled with love there. T really liked being around all the family.

We all had a great time. We love being with family and friends. It was nice to see everyone and have everyone meet T. We miss you all very much. We are excited to be back for Christmas.

One of our new favorite things is T noises. He found his voice and loves seems to hear it. His sweet noises are the cutest thing. Sometimes it seems like he is really trying to talk.

Month one is in the basket for Baby Tanner

Meditation is key to a happy childhood. T continues to practice his deep thoughts. Or he might be saying "what up?" to his peeps in his dreams. He definitely has a hard time staying awake when he is in it. He usually falls asleep with in 10 minutes which is nice for us when we need an easy break.



We are trying to have Tanner sleep in his crib. He currently sleeps in a bassinet in our bedroom, but I am hoping that sleeping in a different room will help him sleep longer. He hasn't slept in there overnight just yet. We are working on naps first. But really who wouldn't want to sleep in that crib? I wish I could climb in.



Tanner has always enjoyed his baths and nakedness in general. It is so cute. Bath time and diaper changes are enjoyable for everyone... sort of... sometime freedom comes with a price.



Don't worry we have already talked to Tanner about tanning too much. We hope that mom can use the leftover tans.



At his one month appointment he weighed 9lbs 10oz, 21in tall. It has been a couple weeks since then, so I think is might be about 10lbs now. He has grown out his newborn outfits, which is crazy because he used to swim in them.

Our excitement to come to Washington grows daily!! Introducing Tanner to his wonderful family will be a blast. Tanner and I will be there for a little over two weeks. We love to show him off, because we are so excited to have him in our family and we think he is so cute. It will be a nice visit. Hope to see as much family and friends as possible.

Week two and three...

I love my swing!! Thanks Grandma!! Wee



Enough said.



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How could you make him cry?



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Even Tanner cheered for Michael Phelps!!