Houston Vacation

We took a trip to Houston to visit my sister, Allison who had a baby about 7 weeks ago. This was Mitch's first plane trip. He mostly played with the safety instruction card and flirted with other babies when he wasn't sleeping. Overall he did pretty well!

Here's Mitch with his cousins Gianna and Nick. We took a lot of pictures and Allison got a better one than we did, but I like that Mitch and Gianna are holding hands in this one.

Allison and Gianna playing under the sheets while making the bed. Things get crazy when you have kids!

Mitch and Gianna sharing toys

Nick looking cute

Mitch playing in the grass

Mitch was just saying Hi to Nick even though it looks like he was smacking him around. Mitch's hand looks enormous!

Here are the boys: Nick and Matt, Mitch and Matt
just playing on the floor

Mitch and mom

Nick and his mom

Sleeping Nick

The Geiger family on the airplane

Nine months old

Mitch loves taking baths and Matt loves doing his hair when he's in the bath.

Here's Mitch on his 9 month birthday. We went on vacation a few days after and haven't had our MD appt. yet so I don't have any statistics but maybe I'll post them later when we go next week. We weighed him on our scale and think he's about 20 lbs!

Just hanging out

It's been pretty sunny lately in Portland so today Matt got Mitch some sunglasses. We had the hat from a few weeks ago. How cool does he look?

Mitch discovered the dog food and had a fun time putting handfuls of it in the water bowl and all over the floor. Surprisingly he didn't try to eat any of it. I'm sure that will come soon enough.

Mitch went to the park with a few of his friends last weekend when we had beautiful weather. Here he is on the teeter-totter with his friend, Elliot.

Dad took him down the big kid slide-I don't think he gets it just yet.

Mitch and mom

Mitchell's movie debut

This is Mitch learning to crawl...we built towers of cups for him to knock over in different parts of the room which worked as good motivation. This was taken last week and already he's much faster and more coordinated. Hopefully we can post a new video soon!

This is just about the best sound I've ever heard. Mitch loves very dramatic movements and silly surprises as you can see in this video!

On the move...

I can't believe I haven't posted anything in so long. Life gets busy and we've been taking pictures but not putting them on the computer until much later. Anyway, things are good with us, Mitch is still a happy baby, moving more and more each day. Well, enough talk, here are the pics!

These first two pictures are courtesy of my friend, Ella. She came over and took a bunch of pictures for us and they all turned out so cute! If you want to see a few more, check out her website at photosbyella.com.

Mitch and Dad reading together...this is one of Mitch's new favorite books called Big Little

Here's Mitch sleeping very soundly in his crib...this was his 2nd nap of the day (over 2 hours each) and we had to wake him up! I liked his leg position and of course his cute little face!

Mitch is learning to crawl and in doing so he trapped himself in his exersaucer!

Dad and Mitch relaxing on the couch

Happy little boy!

Here's Mitch at 7 months

...and here he is at 8 months. His new talents are waving, clapping and crawling--getting faster by the day.

Lots of new pictures!

So, it's been a while since I've posted anything...no good excuse except for being super busy at work and on the weekends with continuing ed classes. So here are a few new pictures to show what we've been up to lately.

Playing on the couch with cups

Using mom as a recliner chair

Little blue hooded boys

Ginger is really taking a liking to Mitch as evidenced by her kisses! He doesn't seem to mind her scratchy tongue either.

Sixth months old! Here are the stats:
height 27 inches (75th percentile)
weight 16 lbs, 14.5 oz (45th percentile)

Play time

Just a few pictures of Mitch playing on the floor--he's sitting on a rug made by Great-Grandma Werner. He's getting very good at sitting on his own and before we know it he's going to be crawling!

Tummy time is now one of his favorites!