Messy

Urban is loving his time at the table with us. It is an absolute mess, but he is thrilled. I don't like mess, but it is so fun to watch him try new things without me spoon feeding, so I've been willing to put up with it for now! Today he had some plain yogurt. He screamed when lunch time was over and I had to clean him up. He knows what he wants!

Happy Valentine's Day

We enjoyed decorating some Valentine's cookies. Asher liked decorating, but especially enjoyed the eating part!



The kids holding up their Valentine's suckers.


We had a Valentine's/Going Away party tonight for our friends, Dan, Lynn, and Amara. They leave for the States tomorrow. We made heart shaped pizzas. The kids got a picture with Dan and Lynn. They will be greatly missed!

Urban- 6 months old

Urban was 6 months old on January 25th. (I'm a little behind!) My friend, Sheryl, is a great photographer and was willing to take a few pictures of Urban. The pictures turned out great and I've had a really hard time picking out my favorites. Here are a few:

We got a couple with Asher and Urban together. This one makes me laugh. Urban looks so proper in this photo!

Love my boys! Thanks to Sheryl for all her work on these!

Enjoying a Banana

Urban is enjoying his first taste of banana. I'm reading a book called "Baby-Lead Weaning", which has a different philosophy on feeding your baby than the typical pureed food method. The idea is to start right away with table food (very simple, natural foods). Your baby will start off just experimenting with it, but start eating it on their timetable not the parents. I got kind of burnt out with pureeing Asher's baby food and find it may be easier for me to just incorporate Urban into our meal times with some simple things that he can try. We will see how it goes. I may still incorporate some purees. The book did say to plan for a mess in the beginning. I can attest that today was a mess! But Urban absolutely loved it! I wish I would have gotten a picture after he had finished. Banana everywhere!

Viking Outfit

This outfit has been passed down to us from the Wessmans. It is over 30 years old. Reed wore it when he was a baby. Each of our boys have gotten their picture in it.

This was Asher at 7 months:


Here is Urban with it on at 6 months old.


On the back is a patch with "Wessman" on it that was sewn on. The patch belongs to Reed's grandpa who was a soldier in WWII.