Henry's First Road Trip!

We decided to take our first family road trip to Santa Fe this summer to visit Henry's Uncle Skip and Aunt Claudia. On the way we stopped in Colorado Springs to visit Skip, Kathy and Emily and also take in the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. This was Henry's first trip to the zoo and we couldn't have picked a better one! If you have never visited, you should make it a point, it's a wonderful little secret!

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Henry wasn't sure what he thought about the giraffe that could walk right up and eat from your hands, but he did love the noisy monkeys and wandering peacocks!

Hanging out a Skip and Kathy's

 From Colorado Springs, it was still a good 3 hour drive to Santa Fe and Henry did terrific! He slept for a good portion and got to watch a movie, so it wasn't too bad at all!

Our first day in Santa Fe we spent the morning touring the galleries on Canyon Road. The weather was perfect and coolish, and Henry was quite the trooper, we definitely wore him out!

 Henry was immediate best friends with his Aunt Claudia!

 

Henry  Also got quite the kick out of the dogs Kajeta and Castro. Even though there was a small incident when Henry got in the way of Castro's must-chase-ball instincts. He got toppled over and managed to scrape up his forehead, but he a good sport and was back to playing with them in no time. 

We had a great time visiting and spent a lot of time just chillin' out at the house and chatting away. We can't wait to go back and visit again soon!

Summer Fun!

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Being able to walk definitely made this summer more exciting for Henry. We had many an adventure to the park nearby to splash in their water features.
And a few days when it was just to darn hot outside, Sam and I took the boys over to an indoor play place called 'Cool Beans'. As you can see in the above photos, they had a great time!

Just taking a rest to cool off for a second!

Daddy, check out this fountain!

Father's Day weekend!

We had a fun day planned for Father's Day this year. We started off by making waffles for breakfast at our house. (In Hahn's brand new flippy waffle maker) And then after Henry's morning nap, we met up to drive to Lyons. We ate lunch at Oskar Blues, which was a hopping place and quite tasty, I got to eat fried green tomatoes!

Finally the big stop was at the pinball arcade on Main street. It's this tiny ramshackle of a building with room after tiny room, stuffed with side by side pinball machines! Hahn, Dad and Gary were all in heaven! I played several games with Dad and 'kind of' held my own against his amazing pinball talent. (My mom says he majored in pinball at CSU)


Pinball was a huge success with the Dads. :)


I also went garage saleing on Saturday and found this awesome tricycle for Henry. He can't actually reach the pedals yet, which is ok because it has a nice handle for pushing him. He LOVES it!


All in all it was a wonderful weekend! Full of yummy food and lots of fun!

Walking!

Just after he turned 16 months in June, Henry finally got the hang of walking. And now nothing can slow him down! He's realized how much easier it is to carry around his toys and push around the bigger ones!

Momma likes it too, because now Henry can walk around when we are out and about. We stopped by Barnes and Noble the other day and he had a blast running around on the stage. The only downside is that with the walking came the independence to not want to leave! He also just mastered the art of running away!


Here's Henry with his lawnmower toy. I was impressed that with his new balance he was able to pull the mower out, push and even reposition it. Of course then he decided to sit on it, which was probably a silly idea. :)


And here's Henry walking across the yard!

Happy Easter!

Easter was again at Ann's house this year and we had a great crowd! Joining the usual family was Mike & Carly, Tony, Karen and Carl and Grant's new girlfriend Kelly. We had a wonderful meal and the weather was great. We played on the playground with the kiddos for awhile after to lunch to burn off some calories. Tony and Mike and fun chasing Mason around, and Henry had fun going down the slides!

For Henry's Easter present I found a ball pit on Craigslist and just couldn't resist. It is ridiculously huge, but he seems to love it! Of course his favorite part is sitting in the pit and throwing the balls out onto into the room!

Egg hunt!

Sam and I decided to have an Easter egg hunt for the kiddos on Saturday. We were trying to go to the park, but it ended up getting windy and chilly, so we moved it to our living room at the last minute. We had a good turn out: Henry, Ajax, Mason, Aidan, Gunnar (Sam’s neighbor across the street) and little 2.5 month old Natalie (the lone girl) joined in the fun!

It was pretty much chaos. Henry’s favorite part seemed to be throwing the little plastic eggs. And once they all realized that we had filled them with Cheerios and Chick and bunny crackers, they quickly figured out how to open them!

Starting to feel like spring!

The first weekend in March started out warm and sunny! Gearing up for Springtime we bought Henry a new wagon and decided it was the perfect day to break it in! We picked up Sam and Jack and headed out through the neighborhood paths.

The two boys had a great time watching Stoli and the other dogs, and of course, throwing their toys out of the wagon as we went!