It seems that this time of year always brings lots of questions from my kids....about Santa, reindeer, Jesus' birthday, etc. I am going to try and post them on here whenever I remember them because #1 I think they are so funny and thought-provoking and #2 I don't always know how to answer them and could use a bit of help!!!
It's hard to believe that in just 2 days Blake will be 1 year old! Everyone says the first year goes so quickly but I have to say that it seems to go faster with each child. And the past few weeks with Blake have been so much fun. I'm not sure if it's because he's been on an intense round of antibiotics for 21 days to try and keep the ear infections at bay (we have an appt. with an ENT tomorrow) or because he's just a bit older and seems to be learning so much each day. But whatever the reason, we have been having a blast with him.
I'll have more to post about our little guy on his big day, but I had several pictures I had taken recently and wanted to post them on here. He is now entering what I deem as the 'fun' stage and he has a full team of cheerleaders encouraging him daily on each new task! None of these made the cut for the Christmas card, but we had lots of fun.....as you can see!!!
Blake is a walker. He took his first steps last weeks at 11 1/2 months and has since taken up to 5 steps on his own. It's only a matter of time before we end up with all kinds of black and blue marks on the forehead! And we have also completely abandoned the baby gates, at the suggestion of a good friend of mine. She taught her kids to go down their stairs from the moment they could crawl up them (around 7 months) so I figured that if I didn't get new gates (ours both broke within days of each other) we would be forced to teach Blake. And it's going well. He can come down the steps on his own once we turn him around...he still hasn't figured out how to turn around at the top step. So he usually just sits at the top step looking at us until we help him. I was hoping to get a picture of him walking but to no avail...hopefully soon!
Last night while I was making dinner, I grabbed my camera and was able to 'save' this moment. Nothing to say on this post as I think the picture speaks for itself.
Last Saturday we woke up to several inches of snow and it just kept coming all morning. We ended up getting about 7 inches and we loved just about every minute of it (the only thing we didn't love was losing power for about 3 hours saturday morning..but we were lucky as friends of ours lost it for over 2 days!)
We had a great time last weekend as my in-laws and Matt's grandparents all came to our house to watch Tyler (my brother-in-law) play in his first college hockey games over the weekend. It was also Halloween weekend, so although they weren't here for Trick-or-Treating on Sunday, they were able to help us carve our pumpkins!
