Baby Yoga

Christian's favorite position.... pretzel, wad of delicious dough, maybe I can call it "calzone"? :)

And perhaps his main reasoning for loving this position....comes complete with a snack at no extra cost. Who wouldn't love to nibble on those little toes?!

What are you looking at Mama?? Yes, I am beautiful!

Patty cake with my feet :)

It's hard to decide what baby sugar I want to eat first!

Mmmmmm FOOD!!!

By popular demand here is a video of sweet Christian enjoying his first cereal. He was born to eat :)

A first Christmas

Christmas has arrived! So warm, so full of wonder and magic! Our boys have made this Christmas so very special!!

Christian was in awe of the lights and sounds of crinkling wrapping paper. And he LOVED his Gund puppy blanket from Santa (among other things!)
What a beautiful day we had together just the four of us (and Stanford of course!).

The "after"...Mama's favorite nest

Merry First Christmas Christian! Here is to all of the wonderful Christmases we will share together in all the years to come!

First FOOD!!! Hallelujah!

After much patience (Mama made him wait until his 5 month birthday) Christian had his first food! He was ecstatic! Acted as though he had been doing this eating thing his entire life. And, based on how he was still looking at all of our plates, I am quite certain he was still wondering where the rest of it was.

For now sweet one you'll have to enjoy the banana and sweet potato and we'll venture in to avocados in a few days :)
I am so very proud of you and this next step!!!

Sitting up in style :)

Christian has been working his tummy crunches and recently decided he was ready for a different view of the world. Such a strong boy!! He likes to hang with his favorite teethers and carefully observe what his big brother is doing in the moment!

More delicious than ever and impressing Mama with his latest achievements each and every day!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Christian's first holiday season is in full swing (much to Mama's content :)). The boys' (including our hairy son :)) excitement is contagious and although Christian is not quite sure what is happening he is certainly aware of the tangible excitement in the air!
He is a big fan of White Christmas already (surprised??), was a huge help stringing his first Christmas tree with lights, and enjoyed his first meeting with Santa twice in one weekend.

First we met Santa on the Santa train...a joyous tradition we began with Benjamin and that we continue to love each year. And then Christian had his first chance to sit on Santa's lap at our club.

Just as his big brother before him Christian was not phased in the least bit by the big man with the white beard and red suit. Had he been able to talk we're pretty sure he would have asked him to grab him one of the breakfast sausages from the brunch!

And for all of you who understand....yes, my children will forever be a part of matching pajama tradition on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. In their first year of matching pj's we were delighted by our Christmas goodies in green!!

Meeting New Cousin Ellie

Christian and Mama traveled to Topeka, KS to meet new cousin (and Goddaughter) baby Ellie as she celebrated her 2nd month birthday.

Mama was so excited to meet her first niece on this side of the family and Christian was thrilled....each and every time we brought him over to say hello he tried to eat Ellie!

She is certainly delicious but I don't think Aunt Anne Marie and Uncle Michael want you to eat her, Christian!
When Christian wasn't trying to eat Ellie he was trying to breastfeed on Uncle Michael's elbow....oops! My little champion eater...always ready for a meal....

That's definitely not Mama though :)








It is an understatement to say that Ga and Mimi were happy as clams holding their two newest grandbabies. One more will close out their year!

We have officially started the countdown to Christmas :)

Mark our words...these photos will some day grace both Christian and Eleanore's graduation slide show. :)