Monday, November 30, 2009

Callie and the Christmas Tree

This is nothing to write home about (though I guess that is technically what we are doing by posting this to the blog), here are a few of Callie's first impressions of the Christmas tree. She was a little confused at first.


Saturday, November 28, 2009

Thanksgiving and the Christmas Tree

For Thanksgiving we went to Lisa Reagan's parents' house. She and her husband, Matt, work with us on staff here in Minneapolis. We had a great time there and enjoyed letting Callie play with two of her friends, Annie and Maddux. Here is a picture of them eating their Thanksgiving meal:

And Sitting on the chair. You may notice a similarity between this an Callie's first Easter:


The day after Thanksgiving we rode out to Oak Grove, MN to cut down our Christmas tree (as is our family tradition). Callie didn't seem to know what was going on and she had trouble walking on the extremely uneven ground (even Jennifer had trouble walking). But in the end we picked out a tree that she liked. We will post a video of her reaction to the tree in our living room in the next couple of days.


Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Some New Pictures of Callie

We had a friend come over and watch Callie the other day. She also happened to be a photographer and got really excited about taking some pictures of Callie. Here is a link to her blog with the pictures that she took (you should read what she writes in the post, especially if you are from the South).
Here is one of the pictures that she took:

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Thanksgiving Dinner with Students

For the second year in a row, we had all the students in our discipleship groups over for a Thanksgiving dinner. It is a good time for all the people that we are discipling to come and hang out together over at our house. Jennifer cooked some really good food (14 lb. turkey, sweet potato casserole, mac and cheese, green beans, dressing, pecan pie, apple pie, and cherry pie). Here are some pictures from the night:

This is a big step for Peter. He is always so nervous that he is going to drop Callie every time he tries to hold her.


Lots of people in our small kitchen.


This picture is from yesterday. We were just sitting around the house as a family. We put this hat on Callie and thought she looked really cute, so we had to take a picture.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

More Walking

Callie has been walking more and more. In this video she walks all the way across our living room and back to where she started:

We went to Old Navy a few days ago and she enjoyed walking all over the store. She is getting the hang of it more and more. We will keep you updated.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Play Dates

We have enjoyed getting the girls together for play dates the past couple of weeks. This first picture is from a few weeks ago. It was perhaps the first time all the girls had been together since August. Samm had us over to her house for lunch and play time. It was next to impossible to get this picture of the four of them. Notice Maddux trying to make an escape!

Last Tuesday, we all took the girls to the Mall of America. Each year they have something called "America's biggest play group." They had music, door prizes, dancing, free gifts. It was a little more geared to toddlers, but we still had fun. The first two pictures are of Callie and Annie. They are watching the guy on stage that is singing and dancing. The last picture is of Callie, Maddux, and Annie. We didn't get any pictures with Ellie Jane.




Stay tuned for more walking footage! She's been walking all over.

Monday, November 09, 2009

Callie is walking?

Earlier on this blog we gave you Charlie's prediction and Jennifer's prediction for when Callie was going to start walking. We don't know what really constitutes "walking" but this sure looks like it. So we have concluded that Charlie was right. She is 10 1/2 months old and she appears to be walking. Would you consider this walking?

Friday, November 06, 2009

New Callie Video

This is her playing with her doorstop, dancing, and resting her head on a pillow:

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Halloween

We had a fun Halloween. We didn't dress Callie up this year ( I have a great lady bug outfit for next year), but we did put a hand-me-down Halloween t-shirt on her.



It was a pretty, sunny day (although the wind was a little fierce) so we had to get outside. Callie enjoyed watching Ellie Jane run all over the park.



Finally, we ended the day with some good ole Chipotle. Chipotle offers free burritos to anyone dressed like a burrito (i.e. wearing some tin foil). We had to take advantage of this special day! In fact, I get way more excited about this aspect of Halloween verses any other. It brought back funny memories of last year when we wrapped my gigantic, pregnant belly in tin foil! This year we just wrapped little "C". Stay tuned for more updates. Callie is starting to take a few steps and Charlie and I are on a mission to catch her in the act with the video camera.