Happy Fall!

To celebrate the start of the fall season, we went with some friends to farm where we could pick pumpkins and take Christopher on a hayride. He had a good time! Chris bought a big pumpkin he's going to carve and leave on our front porch.

Christopher is 15 months old now and is doing well. He is still pretty picky with eating dinner, so we give him plenty of food in the first part of the day. He likes waffles and eggs with lots of syrup for breakfast, and he actually loves the vegetable juice from V8 that also has fruit juice in it, so that's great. I've been making him banana bread with lots of banana which he likes also. But as far as plain old vegetables, not lately. He used to love them with meat and he's been refusing them lately. I ordered Deceptively Delicious which is a cookbook that gives you recipes that have lots of vegetables that kids like, so I hope to get some ideas from it.

School is very busy this semester for me, but it looks like I should be applying to internships next Fall. Below are some pictures from our pumpkin picking day. Have a good one!

Andrea

Here's a few pictures from our visit to Chris' parents' new place a few weeks ago.

Christopher is doing a new trick grammy taught him, which is puckering his lips.






Here we're at my friend Deanna's BBQ


Not much new going on, school starts for me this week. My first class is Thursday. I'm eager to get the semester started and make progress towards graduation. I'll be taking comps in the spring which is a two-week period where you are given 4 questions to write papers about. I haven't finalized the topic areas I'll do my questions on yet, that's what I'm working on this semester. Its an extremely stressful process, I've run into people during those 2 weeks and they look really exhausted! It seems terrible! Then you also do the oral comps 2 weeks later. I look forward to getting them over with next spring.

Its been a pretty nice summer with lots of trips to the beach and the park. Christopher and I just got back from there where he had a playdate with his friend Jacob, whose mother was in my prenatal class. Yesterday, Chris and I were both off for labor day and took Christopher on an exciting adventure to Petsmart to look at the fish - its like the zoo to a one-year old! He liked the fish and birds.

Have a good week!
Andrea

Hi everyone, Christopher is now 14 months old and is doing great. I can't believe the summer is almost over but am actually looking forward to school starting. Below are some pictures of our first trip to the aquarium in Mystic. He seemed to like looking at the animals.





Here Chris was making him laugh during a snack. Lately he's been super picky with eating dinner, and sometimes lunch. It doesn't matter what it is, he has just been fighting eating. Hopefully its a short phase! The pediatrician said its common at this age for toddlers to start asserting their independence and refusing to do things they don't want to do!

Sorry I'm not as good about posting lately! Christopher is doing great and is walking like a pro on his own. We're looking forward to spending a week at the beach in a couple weeks with Chris' parents, Christopher really likes the beach. We've gone a lot this summer and last time he held our hands and walked right on in the water to his waist!

What a doll... Christopher and his new friend, Andy.

Fascinated by his cousin's doll...

Chris took our nephew Jacob fishing for his birthday, good catch!

Christopher has been up to a lot since I've last updated this site. The biggest thing is that he's now officially a toddler! He's walking for short periods of time alone, but much longer if you hold his hands. He can walk forever if you hold his hands, but alone I think he doubts himself. Below are a few pics from his first birthday party.

He liked his presents. This was a popper from grammy.


He loved being pulled around in his new wagon from grandma.


Here's his cake I made.




His first taste of cake, we discovered he has a real sweet tooth.


Yesterday we got back from going to a conference in D.C. for my work. We did some site seeing and while I was at the conference during the day, Chris & Christopher hung out at the hotel and went in the pool.



Chris & Christopher came down to visit me when I presented my poster. Here are a couple of other students that work for my boss.


Free Haagen-Daaz at the conference, he was in heaven!

Lots of pictures to share!

Christopher enjoying his new slide, he closes his eyes and cracks up going down...

He likes trying on my sunglasses...



and helping empty the laundry basket...

a Mother's Day family photo...

Hanging out with grammy....

He likes getting pushed around his mini-bike...

Hanging out with grandpa...

More fun on the slide...

Just a few pics of Christopher enjoying his new swingset!

So last week was my first Mother's Day, it was wonderful! And this week starts my summer break from school. I decided not to work this summer beyond my clinicals at Butler Hospital so I can be home with Christopher almost every day. I'm really excited about the start of summer so we can enjoy the outside with Christopher, we have his swingset all set up that we got him for his birthday that's in a few weeks and he loves it.

This past week he wasn't feeling very well, its pretty easy to see it in his face :0(



When he wasn't feeling well, decided to take a break from playing and nap right on the spot. But the next day he was feeling better and the day after he was back to his old self. I didn't like seeing him sick but was happy to oblige to 24 straight hours of snuggling time :0)



Feeling better the next day and back to tearing up the living room!

Christopher enjoyed his first trip to the zoo last week :0)

Christopher with his cousins.

A few pics of the now 10-month old little guy. Already 10 months! He's doing great. He has several teeth, and more coming very soon.

We're all ready to go to the beach as soon as its warm enough...

He loves it when daddy swings him in the air..,

He loves reading books...

Ready for bed...

Making the food for the week...

and napping after a nice long walk.