Brennan's new things

Okay, I promise this is the last one, and I will try to keep updated in the future!

Brennan's latest thing is to climb into something like a basket or in this case a toy container.  He's pretty proud of himself.  For the first year Brennan's tongue was constantly hanging out of his mouth (not sure how it never dried out), but now his new thing, when he thinks he has an audience, is to stick his tongue out and swish it side to side.  It's the cutest, course he's at the stage where he'll do anything you'll laugh at, again, and again, and again - it never get's old to him, so look out!  :)  Seriously, look at the time, I've got to get to bed!

Krass Christmas

Last weekend (yes, after hosting thanksgiving) we traveled out to Green Bay area to celebrate christmas with the Krass's.  Brennan decided to nap only a half hour in that 5 hour car ride.  Nice!  Kobe actually traveled very well.  We traveled to my aunt lynn's house and joined their family in a thanksgiving celebration, and then headed closer to Green Bay to have christmas with my other family (thanksgiving and christmas in the same day, can it get any better?).  Here is a picture of Kobe and Brennan's Great Grandma and Grandpa Krass.  It was nice to finally visit their new home in Wisconsin.  One christmas down, 6 to go (yes, six more, really!).

Thanksgiving 2008

We had a wonderful thanksgiving 2008 - we are all so blessed in our families with many more blessings than we could even list.  We thank our God every day for giving us everything we need and so much more.  The youngs actually hosted thanksgiving this year for Heidi's side.  Daddy Troy cooked up a 22 lb turkey (yes, that's a pound more than brennan's weight!), and mommy made a lot of other food.  Of course we had enough left over we could feed a whole village in Africa.  If only we could overnight some to them.  Please, Lord, give them even just an ounce of our richness.  :)

Winter Swimming

Wow, we've gone swimming 3 times in 2 weeks, that's more than in the summer (unless you count a pool with 4 inches of water).  This pic was taken at auntie Dea's hotel in downtown Mpls when we went to visit her while she was in work training (thanks Wells Fargo).  The following week we stayed with daddy in a hotel in Red Wing, the Best Western Suites - part of their pool was outside, it was really neat, you can swim right out, that's crazy in the winter!  That same week we took a trip to Green Bay for our first christmas, and swam in another pool.  The boys both loved it, although brennan got upset because he couldn't understand why mommy wouldn't let go of him in the water.  Brennan pretends he's swimming now in the bathtub, he lays on his belly and kicks his legs.

Picnics for the boys

Kobe and Brennan have really started playing well together.  Mommy is starting to wonder what she will do with her time.  The boys just disappear and often play so nicely (course there's always the times when someone is screaming for mommy).  Often times I'll go downstairs and peek around the corner, and this is what I see - it just melts your heart!  The bond between them is a gift from above!

Family ZOO trip!

Mommy, Brennan, and Kobe enjoy lots of time at the zoo, but we're always wishing daddy could join us.  Finally we found a weekend to go in November.  We loved showing and sharing all our favorites at the zoo with daddy.  It was a super cold day, but we still had to show daddy the new BEAR exhibit - of course the bears were sleeping!  Guess there'll have to be a next time!

Why two rooms?

Seriously, why do we have two separate beds and two separate bed rooms, they look quite comfy, you think?  Kobe was elated when I said he could crawl in the crib with brennan!  Mom, is that you?  Only daddy lets us do stuff like this!

I do have to apologize to those of you whom are on the email list and are about to get bombarded, it's been a month since I've blogged (daddy's been doing God's work as his boss calls it, for the Norm Coleman recount, and has been out of town with the computer for 3 weeks!).  We are sooo glad to have daddy home, although he leaves again next week, this time for DC.  :(