Six month photos

Here are pictures of both Greta and Ingrid around six months...

A room with a view

Greta has gracefully moved from a crib into a big girl bed. She loves the new bed - mostly because she has about 25-30 items surrounding her at all times. Here's a short list of some of the items I found while changing her bedding today:

Calculator

Library card

10-15 stuffed animals including her favorites - Ornament the cat, Happy Kwaanza the horse, Feliz Navidad (actual proununciation is more like felipnobbydadas) the bunny, July and Baby July the ponies, Senwah (no idea how to spell this) the cat, Otto the elephant, Otto the dragonfly and Otto the pony

A christmas card

A dish towel (not sure if it was clean)

A bathroom towel (Again not sure if it was clean)

Empty play-doh jars and lids

A number of Ingrid's toys that were "missing"

National Geographic animal trading cards

The best part of her full bed - our family isn't totally overrun by toys anymore.

The first time ever I...

Ate baby food...

Sat-up unassisted for a photo

Tonight we're gonna party like it's...

2008! Yes - we're all in bed by 9pm. But before that we made pipe-cleaner hats and drank apple juice and champagne to celebrate. In addition - I got gussied up for the event in a lovely pair of NEON green track pants with a camel-colored sweater. Wow - can't believe I still own those pants.

Baby it's cold outside...

Since we gave the girls nordic names, I decided get in touch with my Northern European heritage and spend more time outdoors with the girls in the winter. We bundle up most days it's above 25 degrees out and spend some time sledding, strolling or just playing the snow. Cody on the other hand still goes out to grill in shorts during the winter. He's just wondering why it has taken me so long to appreciate all that cold weather has to offer. Here are a few pictures of our escapades so far. ..




Yes - that is me grilling in the snow. After spending the day in the house with two little, loud kids, nothing beats the sound of sizzling meat on a subzero night. (Okay - maybe the sound of the waves on a sandy beach, or the whispers in the Louvre, or...)

Heavenly Day

Ingrid was baptised back in November. We had a lot of family attend the church service and help Ingrid celebrate the day.

As we were leaving the church, a women came up to me and said, "You don't know me but my name is Ingrid and I just want to let you know I love my name. I have always felt so special to have such a lovely name and I know your daughter will love it too."

Some of you might know we didn't name Ingrid until we were leaving the hospital. I wanted to spend some time with her to make sure the name fit. It seemed like a big name for a little baby, but each day, it feels like that name was made especially for her.

Thanksgiving Part II

Becky and Ingrid
Tired Baby...

We celebrated Thanksgiving with the Kotniks at Zak's house. Again another fabulous meal.

Zak with the big bird.
We have about 10 of these dinner shots. Cody REALLY loves the self-timer feature on our camera.