Look who's crawling!

Charis started really crawling at about 7 and 1/2 months. She is going everywhere now. That includes right over Price if he is in her way. Price relies on rolling if he wants to get somewhere, but it is clearly not so effective as crawling, and he tends to get frustrated when she crawls right past him and ends up where he was wanting to go. But not to be outdone, Price is showing his new favorite sound phbbbbt!

A birthday party...

Here we are all dressed up for a birthday party! Rilee Kaspar turning 1! This was actually our 4th birthday party to attend, but it was really the first that the kids were big enough to take part in. They enjoyed playing with (slobbering on) lots of Rilee's toys. It was so fun!

Our 1st Christmas!

The first Christmas was interesting, definitely not what I thought it would be. I had kind of imagined us starting up some traditions, maybe having the family over for a big dinner and all that. Instead the kids had colds and the cousins had RSV, so we kind of quarantined ourselves, avoiding anyone that we could make sick or get sick from. So Christmas Eve, Chris went to his parents and I stayed home with the kids. Christmas Day, I went to the Turners and Chris stayed home with the kids. Our own little family celebration was Christmas morning where we took some time to read Luke 2:1-20 and just focus on the real meaning of Christmas. Each set of grandparents came by separately and we celebrated with them. Probably the favorite gifts, were the zebra from grandma Nancy and the Alphabet Pal from grandma Sue.

Meal time!

Well, I had hoped to load some video of this big event, but have still not learned how to get the video from my camera to my computer much less from my computer onto the blog. So, the pictures will have to do. But it was just so cute. I resisted the urging from the grandmas to start giving them food at like 2 months, and held out until almost 6 months. They got their first rice cereal in mid-December, and they seemed to know just what to do with it. Next was avocado, which they love now, but it was not an instant hit. Charis gagged, spit it out and cried. Price was not so animated. I confess that when Kendra told me she was home-making all her baby food, I thought she was a total hippie, but I have adopted this and love it. I have so much fun making and trying new things - I have learned a lot about food myself during this journey! Who knew you could toast up the seeds from a butternut squash and they'd be so tasty??

Thanksgiving 2007

I had the whole week off from work so I tried to make a trip out to Abilene - just me and the babies. Maybe I was a bit too high-strung (who me?) but I just could not get comfortable and only made it one night. We had a nice family dinner at the Andrews house and it was a great first Thanksgiving for the babies! This is not the best quality pic, but it has all of us in it and you can see everyone was having a good time!!

Halloween 2007

Dressed the babies up as "Peas in a Pod" - how appropriate!

Baby dedication

We participated in the baby dedication ceremony at Fellowship Church October 7, 2007. Several of the families from our hometeam participated as well. It was really neat to be able to share this special day with these close friends.