The adventures of having a house

Although we owned our condo in Denver, we are realizing that there is a lot more to owning a house than a condo.  This afternoon Jen was working to break the ice out of the front gutters by using boiling water, a screwdriver, a hammer, and a very wiggly ladder while Mark was ice picking the big piles of snow and ice at the end of the driveway.  Teag was inside taking a warm and cozy nap!

Teag can scoot!

So, Teag has been a rockstar sleeper for the past few nights. He has been sleeping for 6 or 7 hours during the night with one time that he wakes up and just needs to be given his pacifier back and bounced a little bit to fall right back to sleep.  We are also in the middle of transitioning him from sleeping in his Boppy chair to sleeping on a flat surface (right now his changing pad next to our bed, soon his own crib!) Last night I woke up to find that he had scooted down the changing pad, entirely off of it, and all the way to the wall in his sleep!  He was happily sound asleep on the floor still swaddled up with his feet against the wall which was keeping him from scooting any farther.  I turned him around so his feet faced the bed after that and he didn’t travel any more last night!

Fun presents!

Teag is loving the presents he has gotten from all of you!  Here are a couple cute pictures of a few of them!  Thank you Aunt Lynette for the quilt, Aunt Elizabeth for the outfit, and Todd and his sister for the cool painted stool!

Trip to St. Louis to see Aunt Elizabeth

Over MLK weekend, we traveled to St. Louis to see Mark’s sister Elizabeth.  It was Teag’s first time meeting Aunt Elizabeth and also his first trip out of state!  He traveled very well, sleeping the whole way with one feeding stop in the middle!  We had a great time in St. Louis!

Skype!

Teag loves to Skype with his family!

Two Months

So, I am slow in posting these two month pictures – I completely forgot…

I took pictures with Teag in the same outfits and with his stuffed octopus (actually it is a hexapus, but anyway…) on his one and two month birthdays and plan to keep going for the first year.  It is amazing to see how much he has grown already! For each pictures the one month is first and then the second month picture.

New Years

We spent New Years in Cedar Rapids and Monticello with Jen’s family!  What fun!

Growing

Teag is growing, growing, growing.  He is smiling and cooing all the time and is outgrowing clothes every day!   Here are a couple cute pictures.

Boys Boys Boys

We spent some time with the Borgmans and Richtsmeiers today.  What fun to have all three boys together!  (Emmett 9 months, Teag 6 weeks, Evan 14 months)

Christmas

Teag’s first Christmas!  We went to the Christmas Eve Eve service at Lutheran Church of Hope.  What a beautiful time to reflect on how God broke through into the world in a new way through sending Jesus to Earth and how God is trying to breakthrough into each of our lives today in a fresh new way.  On Christmas Eve we went to Williams to spend time with Mark’s parents and Teag had a fun time celebrating his first Christmas with Grammy and Grandpa.