Thanksgiving Then and Now

Last year we got to share soft Thanksgiving foods with our 7 month old. After playing on the floor with his cousin Kaelyn, Zeke ate some mashed potatoes, roll, pumpkin pie, and vanilla ice cream (no apple pie, thank you very much). I was thrilled that he was old enough to enjoy the food of his very first Thanksgiving. The ice cream was definitely his favorite part.

This year, he ate turkey and stuffing and potatoes and all of the other good food like a champ. He ran around outside playing RC cars before dinner and played with his aunt and uncle after dinner. My how times have changed. We'll see how much has really changed when we try the apple pie...

The Big Cheese

Fall Flying

We did manage to get out and go flying this month, despite no organized flying events. Fall flying is chilly, and the sun goes down ridiculously early, but we still had a good time.

Random Photo for the day

The only digitized picture we happened to have readily accessible from 1992: Aaron's Japanese class his senior year. Can you identify Aaron?

Just Like Mom and Dad

Zeke has recently started doing a whole bunch of things that we do. Trying to be just like us. Like using the computer. And he loves our cell phones with all the cool buttons and noises and colors - and he 'talks' on them too.

There are a bunch of little things too ... things that show that he watches us all the time and is learning just by watching. Like turning lights on and off, opening/closing and locking/unlocking doors, working the knobs on the stove (our least favorite), opening drawers and cupboards, and 'erasing' the calendar because he can't reach the white board.

Summer Vacation 2008

Just in case the wintery weather is making you miss summer, here is a recap of our summer vacation. It was a plane-filled vacation, starting with real military planes in the museum and ending with model planes at the Idaho Jet Rally in Parma Idaho. It was windy and cool most of the time, which made for some interesting camping in Utah and in Oregon. It was a good time though - and our first vacation with Zeke.

Saturday Workday

For once we had a Saturday to just stay home - and we filled it with home work. Aaron and I worked together to get both bedrooms picked up and vacuumed, laundry done, groceries shopped for, papers filed, and all those little piles of 'I'll take care of this later' stuff taken care of. Zeke is loving it because now he has lots of 'new' things to explore. We even have a walkway on both sides of the bed now - and that's a big achievement! It feels so good to have accomplished so much and to have a clean home.

Dynna and Zeke

For Dynna's birthday, we made a dvd slideshow of pictures of Dynna and Zeke, starting with the first time she held Zeke on his birth day and ending with pictures we took last month. Dynna and Zeke are both so cute, I'd love to post all 50+ pictures! But I also want you to be able to load our blog in a reasonable amount of time, so I picked some of the best ones to share with all of you.

Happy Birthday Dynna!

Weaving the Web

We made Zeke's Spider-Man spiderweb cape ourselves. It was completely a team effort. Aaron picked the fabric, we shared the vision, I did the graphic and sewing, and Aaron threaded, reloaded, and fixed the sewing machine 7 or 8 times for me. Bonus - it doubles as a Halloween decoration and entertainment for Zeke (alternate costume idea - spider-ghost, complete with screaming). We are very happy with our homemade spiderweb. It turned out to be pretty easy, as long as the sewing machine was working.