My Little Rockstar

Uncle Grant wants to help build a love of music at an early age for Henry and got him a toy guitar for Christmas. It has proven to be a new favorite. I think we have a little rockstar in the making!!

Amber and Jason visit

 

Amber and Jason were in town visiting her family for Christmas, and they made the time to swing by and see Henry. As Amber put it, she really only wanted to see him ;)

 

It was so good to see them and catch up!

 

I thought this was a rather nice shot!

Henry's First Christmas!

Henry's first Christmas was full of family and fun! He had been crawling for about 2 months, so we were worried how he would do with the Christmas tree. He was very careful around it and listened to our warnings of "gentle".

As per our traditions, we went to Nanoo's house for Christmas Eve and had take out Chinese for dinner. Afterward we traveled back to Mom and Dad's to open our family gifts. We attempted to put Henry down for bed, but I think he was just as excited as the rest of us to stay up and open gifts!

 

Henry stayed up WAY past his bedtime!

Christmas morning we brought Henry downstairs to open his gift from Santa- a Dino-Roll and Roar toy! He was very excited about it!

First Thanksgiving!

Henry's first Thanksgiving was at Grandma Ann's house. Tera's family was also in town, so we had a big group! It's always great to join the family for good food and good company!

Henry and Aidan chillin' with Grandma, the two boys are getting so big! We can't wait until next year when we'll have almost 1.5 year old Aidan, almost 2 year old Henry and 4 year old Mason all running around!



Since Henry is still not interested in table food (anything too solid makes him gag) we brought along some turkey babyfood for Henry to try for his Thanksgiving meal. It was his first time tasting any kind of meat, and as you can see in this video, he was less than thrilled about it!

Nine Months Old!

November 1st - Henry turned 9 months old! He also had his first well-baby check-up since month 6. He weighed in at 15lbs 10oz and 27 inches!



Henry loves bath time!

• Henry is officially a crawler, now that he has figured it out there is no stopping him! He already tumbled down three steps, as Hahn put it, "I didn't know he could crawl so FAST!". We got our baby gate put up to block off the stairs and Stoli's dog food. Our life has changed yet again!

Check out these crawling moves!

Office Halloween

My office always goes all out for Halloween. Even though we had to post-pone our celebration till the week after due to blizzards, this year was no exception! The theme this year was TV shows and each pod picked something from this category to dress up as and decorate their area.

My pod, the HP Design pod - Batman (the old, campy Adam West version)

Robin, Batgirl, The Riddler, Batman and Catwoman

I made this Batcomputer and was rather proud of how it turned out. :)

The Writer's Pod - Cheers

The AM pod - Grey's Anatomy

The Romper Room - Mad Men

Henry's First Halloween!

Henry's first Halloween was a lot of fun. We had two costumes that were given to us, so Henry got the chance to be both a Lion King and a Snugglesaurus!


On Halloween day, we met up with the Wranosky's and went to a local church that was having a festival. Of course, the boys were too young to really enjoy it, but it was fun to get all dressed up and fun to see the other kids!Jack and Henry: Jungle friends.


Henry showing off our giant pumpkins. I couldn't resist Photoshopping the image below. :)

Pumpkin Carving Party 2009!

We had our annual pumpkin carving party the week before Halloween- and as always it was a big hit! It is crazy how over the years, it has become a family event, so many of us now have kids. It was fun to see Noah, Jack and Henry all side by side, since us moms had all been pregnant together last Halloween!
Hahn and I decided against growing pumpkins in the garden this year, however a few apparently seeded themselves and this giant one was one of the results! Here's Henry displaying the pumpkin before and after carving.

Eight Months old!

Henry turned 8 months old on October 1st! New things this month include:

• He has been showing off his new bouncy head bobbing move!
• He loves to turn his toys over and play with the bottoms of them. Especially his little piano, for whatever reason, he seems more interested in the bottom of it! :)
• He has started reaching for things and scooting around on his bottom. He'll slowly move across a room an inch at a time, he'll be crawling soon!

Weekend in Breckenridge

Sam, Ed and I took the boys up to Breckenridge for a rocket weekend in September. Unfortunately Hahn couldn't make it because he had a class to take for his teaching license and a ton of homework to grade. So Ed went on to do rocket stuff during the days while Sam and I took the boys exploring.
The boys showing off their matching rocket shirts.


The kiddos sound asleep after a long day of adventuring!

Henry showing off his skiing skills in this fun cutout we found.


We started to get rain one afternoon and camped out in the car for a little while so Sam could feed Jack. Henry had a blast playing in the back!

Ainsworth/Clark Family Reunion

We had a mini reunion when Hahn's brother Skip came out to visit. So we took the opportunity to get some family pictures. You'll notice Henry is rather excited in this pic - he's just grabbed a handful of grandma's hair! :)The Clark family - little Aidan is getting so BIG!

Skip and Darrow's half-sister Kristen and their step-mom Kay also made it out for the visit.

It still seems a little unbelievable to see photos and realize- This is OUR family! We're no longer a couple, we're a three!



Grandma and her boys!