Showing posts with label A. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Introducing Trucker!
As promised, here are some photos of Trucker from the day he was born. Everyone says he's the spitting image of A as a baby, down to the cleft in his teeny little chin!
Is this not the cutest pregnant lady you've ever seen? Obviously she was all belly!
The happy family-- G, M, Trucker, & A.
G meeting Trucker. I love the happiness radiating from M's face in this photo.
Is this not the cutest pregnant lady you've ever seen? Obviously she was all belly!
The happy family-- G, M, Trucker, & A.
G meeting Trucker. I love the happiness radiating from M's face in this photo.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Annnnnd....
it's a BOY!
He arrived around 2:30 p.m., according to my mom, and was 7 lbs 9 oz.
We'll call him Trucker. Photos to be added once they start coming in.
Congratulations, A&M! Well done!
He arrived around 2:30 p.m., according to my mom, and was 7 lbs 9 oz.
We'll call him Trucker. Photos to be added once they start coming in.
Congratulations, A&M! Well done!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Our new niece or nephew is coming... soon!!
A&M are going to the hospital this evening to start their induction. According to M, my sister-in-law, the doctor says they may have a new baby by lunch tomorrow.
Good luck to everyone! We are sending you all good new baby vibes and can't wait to hear the news as soon as possible!
Good luck to everyone! We are sending you all good new baby vibes and can't wait to hear the news as soon as possible!
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Old Home Videos
I've got a huge backlog of things to post, so be prepared for a whole slew of Christmas photos and posts once I get my pictures up online.
But first, I wanted to write about some old home videos we watched. My grandmother made a wonderful gift of putting old tapes that one of my aunts took at several different family get togethers on a couple of DVDs for us, and during our visit to my parents' for the Christmas holiday, we watched them together.
They were hilarious!
Some highlights:
During a Christmas get together at my aunt and uncle's house, you see my mother sitting on a couch when all of a sudden there's a bunch of thumping from upstairs. She yells upstairs, "LOCAAAAAL HEROOOOO! NO JUMPING!" After she yells, she looks back around the room at the other guests then starts and looks up again and says, "Oh, nice ceiling."
At this same family gathering, the cousins are all opening presents. My mother is wandering around helping clean up wrapping paper and asking us kids what we got. She comes to me and picks up a pink sweatshirt and holds it up to me and says, "Oh, who did you get this from?" I look straight at her and yell my cousins' names in her face.
Local Hero was kind of the star of the videos. While A spent a lot of time running up to the camera and making faces, it was Local Hero who was always doing something that would just CRACK US UP.
The two funniest moments were captured during video of a summer get together at my parents' old house. Local Hero was probably 4 or 5 at the time.
In the first episode, the camera walks into the play room, where a bunch of the cousins are hanging out and playing with all the toys. Local Hero is stuffing a plastic hot dog in my youngest cousin's face (he's probably 2) and then grinning to the camera and saying, "He likes it! He likes it!" It is freaking hysterical.
In the other moment-- remember, Local Hero is only like 4 at the time-- an older cousin is playing basketball with my brother A. This cousin is about a year older than Local Hero, and a year or so younger than A. Local Hero just jumps in the fray, shouting, "You're a terrible basketball player, Cousin! That was a horrible shot! You're terrible!" And then A gets the ball and Local Hero almost tackles him trying to steal it from him.
We about died laughing watching these videos, and all week we kept quoting or repeating these scenes. So hilarious. If I can figure out how to get clips from a DVD onto this blog, I'll see if I can't add actual video.
But first, I wanted to write about some old home videos we watched. My grandmother made a wonderful gift of putting old tapes that one of my aunts took at several different family get togethers on a couple of DVDs for us, and during our visit to my parents' for the Christmas holiday, we watched them together.
They were hilarious!
Some highlights:
During a Christmas get together at my aunt and uncle's house, you see my mother sitting on a couch when all of a sudden there's a bunch of thumping from upstairs. She yells upstairs, "LOCAAAAAL HEROOOOO! NO JUMPING!" After she yells, she looks back around the room at the other guests then starts and looks up again and says, "Oh, nice ceiling."
At this same family gathering, the cousins are all opening presents. My mother is wandering around helping clean up wrapping paper and asking us kids what we got. She comes to me and picks up a pink sweatshirt and holds it up to me and says, "Oh, who did you get this from?" I look straight at her and yell my cousins' names in her face.
Local Hero was kind of the star of the videos. While A spent a lot of time running up to the camera and making faces, it was Local Hero who was always doing something that would just CRACK US UP.
The two funniest moments were captured during video of a summer get together at my parents' old house. Local Hero was probably 4 or 5 at the time.
In the first episode, the camera walks into the play room, where a bunch of the cousins are hanging out and playing with all the toys. Local Hero is stuffing a plastic hot dog in my youngest cousin's face (he's probably 2) and then grinning to the camera and saying, "He likes it! He likes it!" It is freaking hysterical.
In the other moment-- remember, Local Hero is only like 4 at the time-- an older cousin is playing basketball with my brother A. This cousin is about a year older than Local Hero, and a year or so younger than A. Local Hero just jumps in the fray, shouting, "You're a terrible basketball player, Cousin! That was a horrible shot! You're terrible!" And then A gets the ball and Local Hero almost tackles him trying to steal it from him.
We about died laughing watching these videos, and all week we kept quoting or repeating these scenes. So hilarious. If I can figure out how to get clips from a DVD onto this blog, I'll see if I can't add actual video.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Flying
My brother, A, just sent some pictures of his plane. They were pretty sweet so I asked if I could put a few on here. The pic above is the plane he flies (although I'm not sure if he is flying the one in the picture) and the two below are of the plane A flies (the B-52, on the bottom) and the plane that one of my other brothers, Local Hero, flies (the refueler on top, a KC-135).
Sunday, June 29, 2008
She took her first steps!
My brother A and sister-in-law M gave R this Leap Frog table for her birthday, and told us that it helped our nephew G learn to walk because he would move between the table and another toy, and they gradually kept moving the toys further apart (or G just wanted to get between them faster) until he actually took steps to get from one to the other.
The first day R got the table, she spent 15 minutes straight just cruising circles around the thing. Initially, she singlemindedly went only in one direction (counter-clockwise) but she's since learned to move in a clockwise direction too. Lately, she's been reaching for the table from other pieces of furniture, usually the couch or the chair. While she has previously moved one foot while standing to try and maintain her balance, two days ago we saw her for the first time move both feet in a forwards direction. J says he's seen her do something like that before, but I hadn't, so I say it counts as her first steps!
And, because you're thinking this, yes, we were incredibly lucky to get it on video! We were actually trying to get some pictures of her with one of her favorite toys these days, this little telephone she's had since she was born but has only recently gotten really interested in.
We joke about how this toy is going to be so archaic by the time she's bigger because phones just don't look like this anymore, with cordless phones and cell phones being what they are. But anyway, she loves this thing. It rattles and she sits and shakes it. She's also really gotten into putting it on her shoulder and hugging it between her cheek and shoulder, kind of like the move you do when trying to talk on the phone without holding the receiver in your hands. You actually see R doing this in the video. It is so cute.
When she walks around with it, she also likes to hand the phone to us, as if she's answered it and it's for one of us. She hands us the receiver and we talk into it, usually to Grammie and Grampie or Grandma and Grandpa, who are always very excited to hear from her and want to talk to her again, and then we give it back to her. She sometimes says “Hiiii” or babbles a bit, but usually she just cradles the phone for a bit and then gives it back to us to talk again. Too fun.
The first day R got the table, she spent 15 minutes straight just cruising circles around the thing. Initially, she singlemindedly went only in one direction (counter-clockwise) but she's since learned to move in a clockwise direction too. Lately, she's been reaching for the table from other pieces of furniture, usually the couch or the chair. While she has previously moved one foot while standing to try and maintain her balance, two days ago we saw her for the first time move both feet in a forwards direction. J says he's seen her do something like that before, but I hadn't, so I say it counts as her first steps!
And, because you're thinking this, yes, we were incredibly lucky to get it on video! We were actually trying to get some pictures of her with one of her favorite toys these days, this little telephone she's had since she was born but has only recently gotten really interested in.
We joke about how this toy is going to be so archaic by the time she's bigger because phones just don't look like this anymore, with cordless phones and cell phones being what they are. But anyway, she loves this thing. It rattles and she sits and shakes it. She's also really gotten into putting it on her shoulder and hugging it between her cheek and shoulder, kind of like the move you do when trying to talk on the phone without holding the receiver in your hands. You actually see R doing this in the video. It is so cute.
When she walks around with it, she also likes to hand the phone to us, as if she's answered it and it's for one of us. She hands us the receiver and we talk into it, usually to Grammie and Grampie or Grandma and Grandpa, who are always very excited to hear from her and want to talk to her again, and then we give it back to her. She sometimes says “Hiiii” or babbles a bit, but usually she just cradles the phone for a bit and then gives it back to us to talk again. Too fun.
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