Future Engineer?

Like father like son...courtesy of the Noise Boys :) My Dad's co-workers surprised him with a jacket for me to match.

This leapfrog table is the greatest! Thanks Mom.Playdate at the Stewies...who knew moms could have a conversation over the racket of 3 babies without missing a beat! The new toy is popular with Jack and Amelia too. Thanks for coming over to play.

Mmmmm.... rubber

Baby's first Christmas and 2009!

Schweitzer Mountain 2009

Uncle Travis chilling on the hill
Asher with Grandpa Phil in the Lodge, getting ready to ski to the condo

Asher's Baptism

St. Olaf's Parish - Poulsbo

January 11th, 2009

Asher Learning to Crawl...

Still Snowing

11 inches... quite a bit for west of the Cascades.

The Havre Chick is nearly buried now.

The shipyard shut down today due to the snow... so I will be playing in the snow, building a fire, shoveling snow, etc..

Snow

A Winter Wonderland

The Christmas season is upon us and we are looking forward to time spent with family and friends to celebrate Jesus's birthday this year.

We kicked of the season with a full house of Stewart, Stehmans and Chadwicks for Thanksgiving.

A fun time was had by all. The cousins especially enjoyed eachother.

Last weekend we enjoyed the Manette tree lighting celebration with our friends, the Frasers.

Asher with his great grandmother, Virginia Kallberg

A 4 generation picture with Grandpa Phil and Great Grandma, Virginia


Aaron, Asher and I were pleased to finally have lunch with our friend and Lamaze instructer, Kris Avery. She was delighted to see us as new parents and meet our little Asher-babes.

Playdate at the Stewarts

Water Babies

Here are some pics from Asher's first trip to the pool at the YMCA with our friends, Jack and Melissa Fraser.

My Little Pumpkin

One Happy Family!

Asher and I recently took a road trip to Montana. Yup, that is what I said. Just me, Asher and the road. Thankfully, I didn't take Bode, because I may have tried to give him away somwhere around Roger's Pass. The trip was challenging, wonderful and we are so thankful that it smoothly, but nobody can replace Asher's Daddy when it comes to taking care of this little one. He missed his Daddy lots and so did I.

Trick or Treat!

We spent time with Grandpa Phil, Uncle Travis, Mimi, Papa, great grandparents and many aunts and cousins.

Asher with his friend, Jack Fraser...

Checking out Jack's cool play mat together...

We visited with lots of Hi-line friends and even trick-or-treated at a few houses in Gildford. I wish we had more time to visit and enjoy the outdoors. The weather was gorgeous while we were there. It got up to at least 70 degrees one day, and the sun was out almost every day.

Grandpa Phil set up a play area in the living room at the farm complete with a ball suspended from the ceiling. Asher loved it, and loved having so much space to roll around in.

He is now mobile and I am just getting used to the idea that I need to keep things out of his reach. Pretty soon, he'll be crawling and then pulling up on things, Yikes! No, it is fun to see him do new and different things, every day. It seemed like he changed so much just on our trip to Montana. He is babbling and sputtering quite a bit now, and he is so interested in playing with practically everything.

We continue to attempt some new foods, but he doesn't seem too interested. He won't be wasting away any time soon. At is 4 month appointment he weighed in at 19 lbs, 9 oz. and 27" long, so that puts him in the 75% and 50% respectively.

I wish I had some Montana pictures to share, but unfortunately, the digital camera failed me and erased the pictures that I had taken. We did dress him up as a pumpkin for his daddy when we got home to Bremerton.