happy birthday daddy!

we got to celebrate daddy's birthday with lots of friends and our family! thanks daddy - for all you do! you're the bestest!

hangin with mommy

storytime...


and some ball handlin skills ...

happy turkey day!

tomorrow is rmd's 1st thanksgiving and we're so lookin forward to a nice long weekend! we got to start the holiday with a potluck at co kayla's last saturday. there was lots of yummy food, rmd got to hang out with his other lil buddies and then ended the night with a nice long nap... what can we say, must be practicin for the years to come. more pix from the potluck... here

we then got to go to the gaylord texan to check out the holiday decorations. poor reiken was a tad sleepy so not really in the picture takin mood but we got to see a reindeer, gingerbread houses and lots of santas!












































hmmm, what else? OH yeah, hope everyone has a happy thanksgiving and gets to eat lots of yummy turkey!

standing tall

so up until last week, rmd's little legs resembled lil noodles, but finally, he decides to straighten them out and stand, ever so often! here is just a lil snippit caught on tape!



also, rmd now officially has 8 teef! he's showing a few, if not all of them here - hope everyone has a fun weekend!

ride em cowboy!

reiken's new toy! thank u anh phillip & anh dillon
for what will sure be a new fav!

reiken now knows how to shake hands...














then we found that he finally can pull himself up,
at least to a kneeling position...




















here he is all the way up!

a study in b/w

mommy has always been fascinated with black and white photos so started to explore this feature on the cam... its like going back to the ol' days of our 35mm & the multiple rolls of b/w film... this time, we just have a new little subject ;P

9 month checkup.. yup, 9 months!

rmd actually turned 9 months last friday but didn't have his checkup until today...

his stats:
height - 27" (only 10% - but still, movin on up!)
head size - 19" (97%+)
weight - 21.1 lbs (50% - yup, he actually lost a whole lb since 2 months ago... daddy thinks he might be slimmin down for the holidays!)

this time, crinkly paper wasn't so scary at all! even after he got pricked twice for his iron/lead test...see casualties on big toes...





















in a good mood the majority of the time...too bad he still had to get another set of shots! before shot...
















and after...of course there were still tears,
but this time, it wasn't so bad...