Gobble, Gobble, Gobble!

Happy 1st Thanksgiving Kemper!!!!!

Reading the book Uncle Allen and Aunt Tori sent him

"And I'm going to eat some mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes...."

He LOVED Thanksgiving - he got to try LOTS of new foods and loved every single thing!!! He tried turkey, stuffing, a strawberry, a little bit of a roll, pumpkin pie and CoolWhip! The pumpkin pie was his favorite and he was VERY upset with me when I wouldn't give him anymore.

Messy face!

Taking a bite of turkey from daddy!

Gavin didn't care for strawberries as much as Kemper

Kemper and daddy!

We headed over to Jon and Lynse's along with Justin, Kristin and Rick for our Thanksgiving feast. We had a great time with our family away from home and got to see Gavin and Kemper enjoy Thanksgiving. We're so thankful to have such a wonderful group of friends here in Germany to spend Thanksgiving with!

"Mom, they're ignoring me!!!!"

Raspberries for mommy!

Seriously mom, I'm trying to play.

Pulling up on the high chair

In other news, Kemper got another tooth! YAY!!! His top left tooth popped throuugh on Wednesday. No sign of the top right tooth but so far, he's doing just fine with 3! He is starting to learn to put Puffs (kind of like Cheerios but a little more airy and melts quicker in his mouth) in his mouth by himself. He is quite mobile and mischevious and wants nothing to do with the plethora of brightly colored, loud toys we have for him. Instead, he'd rather play with (well, attempt to play with, we stop him) cords and electrical sockets. He gets very offended when we stop him and tell him "NO!". One particular morning, I kept moving him across the room from the fan cord that he wanted to play with (ok, bite) and after the 5th time moving him, I popped his hand lightly when I stopped him, told him no, and moved him. The look on his face was absolutely pitiful and he just poked his bottom lip out and started to cry. He didn't go back for the cord after that, although, the next day, all bets were off and back to the fan he went.

Good morning Kemper!!!

Along with crawling, he's been pulling up on anything and everything and he cruises along the edge of the couch and between the couch and coffee table. He also pulls himself up in his crib (the mattress is lowered and rail is up) and when he wakes up in the morning, more often than not when I go to get him up, he's standing up holding onto the side of his crib with a big grin on his face! I just love seeing his precious face in the morning (especially since he's been sleeping a little later lately!).

Standing up in his crib

We're heading out later to get our Christmas tree and hopefully we'll decorate the house later today. We're still trying to figure out where to put the tree and how to keep little hands out of it this year - I'm sure a very tall tree with lots of shiny, sparkly lights on it will attract the attention of our sweet little one!

Weight update

We took Kemper to the doctor on Monday to make sure that his cold wasn't turning into anything worse (he's got the worst cough!) and he weighed in at 20lbs!!! However, here, they weigh him with his clothes on. James says his clothes weighed about a pound - I can't see where a pair of baby jeans and a shirt would weight a pound, but, who knows!!!

And, new pictures.... :)

In his new walker

Looking like a stud, ready for church!

Sweet boy

Feed me!!!!!

Getting ready to go to the doctor

Taking a break from crawling.

Getting his morning reading in.

I'll just sleep in my toy box!

Bottle with daddy

Peek a boo!

7 months - a little late!

Big man! (Yertle the Turtle was lost in a box in the mail - Tippy the Giraffe filled in. And, the paper has to be placed far enough away that he can't grab it to eat it!).


WOW! What a 7 month birthday Kemper had! James came home!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!

We were able to pick James up around 4 on the 6th and have been having a great time spending time together as a family since then! He's been working half days so far and had a 4-day weekend this weekend - I think we're all getting spoiled.


Kemper is working on getting his top two middle teeth in and also has a cold. :( Poor guy is stuffed up and has a cough that would rival an adults. His mood is still great (for the most part) and his sleep hasn't been disrupted too badly (well, it had recently gotten worse anyhow, so...) and his appetite is pretty similar to normal.


We took him to Toys R Us today (almost identical to an American store except everything is in German - talking toys talk in German) and he rode in his stroller just looking around at all the bright colors and smiling at all of the people. We got him a walker (yes, we know they're not recommended in the States anymore, but we don't have stairs and will use our common sense when putting him in it) and were looking for a humidifier but didn't find one of those.


And last, before I head off to fix dinner, we have a crawler! In the past 2 days, he's finally gotten the hang of getting up on his knees and pushing forward. He isn't flying across the room, yet, but he's moving on his own - baby gates, here we come!!!!

Such a big boy!!!!

Quick update

I promise I'll post a bigger update later in the week, but for now, here are a few pictures! :) We had a play date with Gavin and his mom Lynse yesterday and got some pictures of the boys in their Halloween costumes.

Zorro and the Lion

Buddies :)

Tuckered out

No pictures, just breakfast please!

Halloween pics

We didn't do much for Halloween - it was COLD and since Kemper is too little for candy, we just went to dinner with some friends and hung out around the house. Gavin was supposed to come over and dress up with Kemper but Gavin was completely pooped after dinner so he went home and went to bed.