Merry Christmas

Daddy & Brody in front of the Christmas tree.

Auntie Audrey reading Brody one of his favorite books.

Trying to get a picture of as many kiddos as possible.

Auntie Bethanie & Claire being shy

Brody enjoying his new Mega Bloks

Finally napping peacefully.

Auntie Heather and Max

Paco (uncle Sean) and Claire with the fish.

GG trying her hand at consoling Brody.

Oh to be young again at Christmas!

The 6 Docken kids (what? no infants in a photo? impossible!)

Josh & Whitney, Sean & Heather, Barry & Bethanie

Brody taking Claire out! (Plus Max' hair)

Claire and Brody, smiling friends again.

Papa with Claire, Brody, Max

Omi and Claire

The Park Family (that hat lasts 3 seconds if you're lucky)

Testing the jumperoo's limits!

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!