Thankful

What a wonderful holiday. Wed. night we went out and got a tree so that when Omi and Opa were here they could decorate it with us. It was freezing outside but it was so fun to pick a tree for the first time with Pete with us. Here is a picture of us and our tree. It's smaller than what we normally get but perfectly shaped and easier to handle.Here are a couple pictures of Thanksgiving day. One of Opa, P., Serra and Pete hanging out watching the Detroit Lions get killed and one of our decorated tree.Friday we went to the mall and there was no line to take pictures with Santa so we asked if we could use our camera and take a few. They were happy to let us and Mrs. Claus even took one of all of us. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and is enjoying the weekend with family and friends. Thanks for sharing in these special times with us. All our love and holiday wishes.....

Pete Crawls

Pete crawled forward tonight! As you can hear in the video, I was very excited for him because he has been trying so hard lately to figure out how to move forward. The tears were tears of joy and sadness, another milestone reached for Pete, our baby is growing up and there is no turning back. But how fun it was to see him put one hand in front of the other, move his back legs, and crawl. Wow.

Pete Tries Cheerios

So this lady at P.'s work has been feeding her 9 month old finger foods for months now. After speaking with her last Friday we decided to throw a few Cheerios in front of Pete and see what happened. Funny how everything you don't want Pete to put in his mouth he puts in and the things you want him to try such as a bottle, sippy cup and finger foods, he wants nothing to do with. So, I put a Cheerio in Pete's mouth for him. After a bunch of hilarious faces, some coughing and gagging, a red face and a look of "help me" in his eyes, it finally went down and we put the Cheerios away. I never thought it would be so funny to see your child struggle with something. We put the finger foods away for now but got a few really great pictures out of the whole adventure.