Henry gets excited when he learns he’ll be having his first fresh banana.
Henry draws names for the family Christmas gift exchange.
November 11, 2008
Two new videos
November 9, 2008
Eight Months Old!
Henry turned 8 months old a week ago. He’s 21 pounds according to the bathroom scale. According to our in-home calculations, his body is 28 inches long and his noggin is 18 inches around. (We have another doctor’s visit in December for his nine month check-up.)
He’s got two fully sprouted teeth on his bottom jaw, and he’s cutting three more on the top right now. You should be able to see them in this close-up.
He’s sitting up like a champ, and has been learning how to go from laying down to sitting up all on his own. He’s desperately trying to learn how to crawl. I think it will happen any day now.
Here he is sporting his Cleveland Cavs jersey, thanks to Uncle Eric.
This past weekend Dave had to lower his crib as he looked like he might launch himself out. We usually let him play in his crib during the evenings – it’s a safe place to put him and he has a great time in there. Yesterday we had left the room and we could hear him happily squealing so we knew he was OK. The squealing increased (in a happy way, not a bad way) and so we came in to check. We found him woven through the crib slats attempting to get a toy that was outside his reach. And he was having a great time doing so!
Larry and Hiroe
Our trip to Fishmonger’s last weekend.
Hiroe and Jeni
Dave and Larry
Henry with his new toy
Henry loves this hard plastic pacifier that Hiroe brought him.
Pumpkin carving
Dave and Hiroe carved their pumpkins last Saturday. It was really gorgeous out, nice and sunny.
Larry and I supervised, beer in hand.
Finished!
Hiroe’s windowpane pumpkin
Dave’s happy pumpkin
Jeni’s creepy pumpkin
Halloween at Home
We had a great time this Halloween. My mom came over and helped dish out candy while Dave took Henry to a few neighbors for his first trick-or-treat. Hiroe arrived just in time to experience her first ever Halloween night. We had one pumpkin carved and our front porch looked great. Henry had a great time seeing all the kids in costumes and getting passed around from person to person.
Our spooky front porch
Handing out candy
Halloween Party at School
We all know that Dave is an awesome dad. More proof is his visit to daycare last Friday to participate in the Halloween festivities. The girls at daycare were enamored of him because he was so helpful, and he had a great time seeing all the kids in their costumes. The costumes included an elephant, several pumpkins, a tigger, a vampire, a devil, a lion and of course Henry was a monster. The kids had a great time and were just so cute!!!
Trying not to post too many pics of the kids, but Zoe is so stinkin’ cute in this picture that I’m posting it. I’m pretty sure her mom is a blogger so I think it’s OK. Molly, can you pass this link on?
Henry’s favorite teacher, Julia
Zoe in her elephant costume
October 31, 2008
New Henry Videos
Dave uploaded these last week, so here they are.
Hilarious laughter as he gets mauled by Clifford
Henry’s favorite: bananas!
Some of Henry’s favorite new toys are Thing 1 and Thing 2
Vermicomposting Workshop
This week I got to do something really fun. I found out that the City of Raleigh’s Recycling folks were sponsoring a vermicomposting workshop so I asked if I could help out. They accepted my offer so I showed up with worm bins in tow Tuesday evening. Bianca, who works in Education for the City, was running the workshop. She’s a really neat person who introduced me to worms several years ago at a composting workshop. (Thanks Bianca!)
Here she is teaching the class.
She asked me to talk to the class for a bit and we ended up teaching the rest of the class together. It’s so much fun to teach people about worms and answer their questions. A dozen or more people left that night with worm bins prepared to get started vermicomposting. Woot!!
SpongeBob & Patrick
Check out these awesome costumes my friend at work made for her two kids. They are amazing!
