Santa!

SANTA, I KNOW HIM! (Elf quote)

"Oh wait, no I don't, this guy is freaking me out, get me out of here!"

Snow & Calves

We had a bit of a blizzard on Saturday. Sunday Barry shoveled us out so we could go to the farm. Brody did a bit of sledding and met a baby calf that he wasn't too thrilled about.

More Steps

And yes, Audrey, my son is wearing suspenders! They have airplanes on them and they rock!

First Steps December 7, 2010

You were two days off Papa Jeff! It's only a few steps at any given time, but it's a start and I'm sure he'll improve all too quickly!

Little Christmas

This weekend we got together with the Docken clan; Papa, Omi, Uncle Sean, Auntie Heather, Uncle Josh, Auntie Whitney, Cousin Claire, and Cousin Max. Growing up we always put a shoe out the night before December 6, St. Nicholas Day and we'd get a present for Little Christmas. We celebrated a day early over supper as a big extended family.

Barry said he felt like Santa with Brody and Claire sitting on his lap, quite funny!

Brody Crawling - September 2010

Brody learned how to first crawl on September 19, 2010 when we got back from visiting his daddy in Duluth. This is just a tiny clip of him crawling a few days later on Wednesday, September 22. I'm trying to figure out how to convert our HD video to something that is postable on the blog so this was my test clip. If it works, brace yourselves, I'll be posting many videos in the future!

Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend! The meal was great (I included a lovely picture of the fixings, the 24# turkey is carved under the towel, and table settings, Barry did the napkins)! While Steve and Cindy were here they helped Barry finish our basement flooring. It is so great to have gone from cheap stained carpet to pergo-type flooring! After this weekend (as I'm sure Steve and Cindy would agree and my mom has probably been thinking for months) I have realized just how busy Brody is....he's just exhausting to watch. He stands up then sits down, then back up again, walk along the wall a bit, back down again, crawl some, turn to make sure we're watching him, crawl some more. Exhausting!

After some clever thinking, we determined that we could put up a tree this year even with Mr. Trouble Finder around. At the end of the weekend we put up our Christmas tree that came fresh cut from Ely. Brody digs the lights. Barry got him the Santa hat! I'm excited for him to have his first Christmas.

Milestones for this week include Brody investigating and finding just which cupboards do not have child latches on them, discovering how fun it is to open the toilet seat, figuring out how to pull out all of the safety things from the outlets, pushing all of the equipment out of the TV stand, etc. Oh yeah, the real milestones include saying "buh-bye" "ball" and "up." He also stands for a few seconds on his own and my dad is convinced he'll be walking by December 9th (seriously, he made me mark it on the calendar).