quarter pounder with some cheese

well, not exactly, but collin had his first hamburger off from the grill last night! he's definitely a meat & potatoes man, he loved it! and it was almost just like our dinner with a few subsitutions.

baby fries = butternut squash & potato stew
baby salad = broccoli puree
baby pear cobbler = pear puree & oatmeal

yum!!

visit with grandma & grandpa thelen

grandma & grandpa, thanks for such a fun visit!! i can't remember being read to or rocked so much in my entire life ;) thanks for coming to class with me, taking me to the zoo, the pool, and the doctor! i can't wait to see you soon!

top banana

okay, this has nothing to do with collin, this shirt just cracks me up. it says...

monkey business is my business

i'm the top banana
i was born with lots of a-peel
girls go ape when they see me
i'm so cute its unreal!

our little top banana~~~

cute or what!!

some pics of the little honey lately~~

nine months!

we're still here!!! we've been so busy lately so the updates have been slow, but the good news is that we found a house!! collin & i have spent way too many days driving neighborhoods, looking at houses and shopping loans (way less fun than shopping for shoes or toys) but we did it -- we found a great house in a great town on a great street! the inspection is tomorrow, and if we don't find anything too icky -- we're in! we should move mid-september. yippee!!!!

but more importantly - back to collin. he turned nine months old!!!



collin did a lot of growing during his ninth month.... he has lots of new spiky blonde hair, four new teeth (and he's working on three more now!), and a freckle on his left knee. i've already ooogled countless hours over this freckle and gotten sentimental about it (how many falls off from his bicycle it will get scraped up from, how many slides into first base it will see, and how many lovepats from a girlfriend it will get, oh what a sweet freckle!!)

he also is moving around SO MUCH!!! i have a video here that is about a week old, and is sooo outdated already - this move only takes about three seconds now, and he doesn't need the head-down-deep-thought before standing up anymore;)



he also is talking, talking, talking. i wish he came with subtitles because i know there is some pretty funny stuff going on in his head. he definitely says 'i!' and 'ba-ba' when waving bye-bye, we think he says ball and means it and he definitely says mama, but has no idea what it means. here is a noise he loves to make lately...



he is still charming the ladies everywhere we go (especially the white-haired-ladies ;) ). i can't imagine anyone getting more comments from strangers than i do about having such a happy baby. we're lucky parents!! collin & i are still loving gymboree class and are ready to move up to level 3! oh, and we're in our fifth week of swim class, which is the cutest thing ever.

more updates of the little bup soon, we promise!! hugs & kisses from pennsylvania!

perks of my job...

my 8am meetings usually end on a high note ;) how can i complain?!?

my moves

everyday i'm figuring a new fancy move to show mom & dad. first i started sitting up on my own, but that was boring so i started to pull to my knees.... still boring! now i like to stand - especially when i can stand and play the keyboard. da-da-doo-doo-dee-bop....




sometimes, i try to impress the ladies with this move...

the other day i actually crawled on my hands and knees!! i'm still figuring that move out; mom saw but i haven't shown dad yet. in the meantime, here is how i get around most of the time...

raisin update (with joe's o's)

we didn't know how many of our friends & family were reading our blog until a lot of you told us that you liked the raisin video. so, we have an update! collin isn't eating raisins just yet, but he is chomping on some cheerios (or joe's o's from trader joe's ....they're cheaper, and don't have any wheat, just oats ;) ) so, he has mastered the skill of picking them up (that is soooo last month), and he is getting them to his mouth now too. but lately, the tricky part is LETTING GO before starting to "chew". tough, i know!! we think its the cutest thing ever that he chomps while still holding the joe's o. here is an example (and a really cute smile at the end :) )