Baby Yoga

When Karsten gets on all fours like he wants to crawl, he often straightens his legs and looks like he's doing the Down Dog yoga pose. He'll do that for a few seconds then go back to all fours - we're not sure if this is working up to crawling or what he's doing.

Karsten teaching Scott his moves tonight. Practicing crawling. Madison thinks this is all so they can play with her.


Scott and Karsten doing baby yoga. Hilarious - cracked me up.


What me - why is this funny mom?

Just Cause...

I'm a bit overwhelmed by all of the pictures I took of Christmas festivities with Linda, Leland, Kelli, David and the boys - so I'm going to procrastinate for at least one more day and post some cute pics of Karsten I took today.

It was so cold here today so when we were getting him ready for church I knew he had to wear something super warm! I think he ended up looking pretty cute.

Another New Year's Eve

Jen, David and Eden came over to celebrate New Year's Eve. Earlier this week, Jen reminded me that 10 years ago we also spent New Year's Eve together welcoming the year 2000. Remember all of the hype and doomsday scenarios for Y2K? We took our chances and went to dinner on the plaza then a carriage ride at midnight. There was no one out that evening - the plaza was completely empty at midnight. Check out Jen's blog for pictures of our Y2K celebration. Don't laugh at how young we look. We wanted to recreate the picture on the stairs but didn't have anyone to take the picture. Maybe in another 10....

Back to the present day...Eden and Karsten entertaining each other while we had appetizers.


Posing in front of the tree. This was the best one we got with them both looking in the same general direction.


And cause you can never have too many pics in front of the Christmas tree - here's another... `

Karsten and Scott playing

After the kids went to bed, we played Wii for a bit. Wii asked Jen this question - hilarious.



It was a great night - hope everyone has a wonderful 2010. We're looking forward to a great year!

Choo Choo

We went to Fritz's train restaurant today for lunch. A few friends had been there and said kids Trent and Taylor's age would love it.

They only had booths that fit 4 or 6 people so we sat in two booths across from each other.
Karsten slept through lunch all bundled up and cozy - we'll definetely take him back when he's older. I bet he loves it!


Leland, Grandma, Linda


Scott and I - look at all of the train tracks in the background!


Their food arriving and David getting it off the tray.

The train with our food arriving. The trains go fairly quickly and don't really slow down when they drop the food basket on your tray. It's a pretty cool system they have!

Our tray lowering after the food basket was dropped. An onion ring was trying to escape.

Game or A Movie

Scott and I went to see Blindside on Wednesday night so Grandma and Grandpa watched Karsten for a few hours. Before we headed out to the movie, this is what Karsten was doing. We're pretty sure he didn't even know we were gone!

Dinner...finally!

We've been trying to get together with our friends Matt and Colleen for quite some time now. As you know, it's hard to coordinate multiple people's schedules and find a time that worked. We lucked out and we were all in town over the holidays and were able to get together for dinner!

Colleen and Matt graciously invited us over for dinner which was a great evening. It's always nice to hang out with friends and not worry if Karsten will want to sit in a restaurant for a while (which he normally does BTW...but I still worry...it's my way)

Karsten and Colleen had lots of catching up to do!


Matt and Karsten


Opening the present they got him. Its an adoable photo frame with 2009 on it - we'll add a picture of Karsten and it will look great on our tree. Thanks guys!


Showing Matt his sitting skills.


Showing off his new 'trick' - getting on his hands and knees and rocking back and forth. I think it might be time for baby proofing!

Green Bean Eatin Machine

After the ok to introduce solid food at Karsten's 6 month appointment, we decided to give green beans a try. Karsten assumed it was rice cereal time, just like any other day - so when we put the first bite of green beans in his mouth, he looked surprised! He pushed it around in his mouth a bit then swallowed it. He ate the next bite willingly - he seemed to like green beans!!

Hurry up mom - I'm hungry!

First few bites of green beans

And we're done - I think the green beans on his face may be more my fault than his. I think I missed a few times. :)

We also decided to introduce a sippy cup. So far he can drink out of it if we hold it for him, we're still working on him holding it.