Case needs some boy buddies!! He has so many girlfriends! About two weeks ago one night we hung out with the Darlings and their daughters Hazel and Sylvia, and the Patenaudes and their daughters Eva and Hope. The next day we hung out with my friend Maria and her daughters Layla and Penny. The following day we had lunch and went for a walk with Lindsey and her daughter, Grace. And then the following day we spent the afternoon with Macey!
Despite all this he sure is a boy's boy! He loves climbing, jumping, airplanes, any size ball, throwing things, wrestling, being thrown up in the air and so much more! So anyone who has a son and wants a manly play date, Case is ready (ahhem... Sarah W, ahhem)!
*By the way - those of you not up on pop culture, the title of the blog is a popular song right now :)
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
A Chip Off the Old Block
Everyone who has ever met Case has the same reaction, "Wow - he looks just like Matt!" He really does, he is Matty through and through. I think it's great! But every once in a while something happens that makes me realize, yep - he's his momma's son. And tonight at dinner, one of those things happened... that boy loves him some macaroni and cheese! Ahh, so great to see him at least get the important things from me! Here's crossing my fingers that he's got my sense of humor! :)
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Case, Grace and Coleman
Another great thing about living with the Eikum's is that we live two blocks away from one of our good college friends, Lindsey! Lindsey has a cutie daughter, Grace, just 6 weeks younger than Case. On Monday, Andrea and Coleman came up for a visit, so the three of us mom's packed up the babies and walked the two blocks to the wading pool. It was so much fun!
Here's our attempt at getting a picture of the three of them:
Coleman is on the move while Case bugs Grace...
Case's turn to scoot away, but I love this one of Coleman!
Finally a good one!
I took about 80 pictures (our camera has a continuous shoot thing, and I seriously think Grace looked perfect for about 75 of them, but those two little boys were into everything!
We played at the pool for about an hour while the kids all had a blast taking turns in Coleman's floatie thing.
Then we headed back to Lindsey's and put them all down for a nap so we actually had a little while to talk without having to chase around the little ones. It wasn't long before they all woke up and then Hannah came over! The babies all love Hannah and she LOVES the babies! It was so much fun, then we were super adventerous and the four of us took the kids to Noodles and actually, it was an amazing success! It was so fun to be with a group of our college roommates again! It was so great to see what the Lord has done in each of our lives since college, he's been so faithful! I love you girls and love your babies!
Here's our attempt at getting a picture of the three of them:
It's like Case is saying to them, let's make this difficult...
Coleman is on the move while Case bugs Grace...
Case's turn to scoot away, but I love this one of Coleman!
Finally a good one!
I took about 80 pictures (our camera has a continuous shoot thing, and I seriously think Grace looked perfect for about 75 of them, but those two little boys were into everything!
Then we headed back to Lindsey's and put them all down for a nap so we actually had a little while to talk without having to chase around the little ones. It wasn't long before they all woke up and then Hannah came over! The babies all love Hannah and she LOVES the babies! It was so much fun, then we were super adventerous and the four of us took the kids to Noodles and actually, it was an amazing success! It was so fun to be with a group of our college roommates again! It was so great to see what the Lord has done in each of our lives since college, he's been so faithful! I love you girls and love your babies!
Monday, August 3, 2009
Splash Park
Last week we went to the local water park for a friends daughter's birthday party. It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon and Matt and I were watching Macey as well. Case thought the water was a little chilly so spent most of the afternoon sitting and playing with Hannah B.
Macey thought the splash park was great and spent hours running in and out, jumping, splashing, laughing and bringing Matty along with her every where she went.
First she tries telling him she wants him to come with into the pool...
When that didn't work, she took matters into her own hands..
We all had a great time, but I think Macey would have slept there if we would have let her!
Macey thought the splash park was great and spent hours running in and out, jumping, splashing, laughing and bringing Matty along with her every where she went.
First she tries telling him she wants him to come with into the pool...
When that didn't work, she took matters into her own hands..
We all had a great time, but I think Macey would have slept there if we would have let her!
Saturday, July 18, 2009
10 months old!!
It's been a while since I've updated everyone on Case and since he turned 10 months old on Saturday, it seemed like the perfect time! I feel like I can't even call him my baby anymore, he has changed so much since we've left Maryland! He has learned to "scoot" (he doesn't crawl). Instead, from a sitting position he puts his arms out on the floor, pulls himself with his arms with his legs behind him, dragging one of them and using the other one to push with. It's super cute, and we like to call it the "Tiny Tim". He's gotten really good at it and can move around so quickly!
Recently, he learned to crawl up the stairs here at the Eikums and it's almost all he wants to do now. His favorite thing is being "chased" up the stairs. We were of course following him to make sure he didn't fall back down the stairs and now he loves the chase game, especially when Matty does noises along with it. He also recently learned to pull himself up on just about anything. He walks along the furniture and LOVES walking behind his toy walker. He's gotten pretty good and he thinks it's the greatest thing ever, as always smiling his big toothy grin! Case also thinks it's the greatest thing to stand up. He practices all by himself by sitting on the bottom step and standing up and down, giggling away! He can now stand for 3-4 seconds all by himself.
He loves being tickled, and getting anyone to smile at him or laugh with him about who knows what! We love him so much and we are so grateful that he's such a happy baby! We had his "9 month" appointment but because of all the moving/visiting family and trying to get into a pediatrician here it was actually two days before he turned 10 months old. He weighs 17 lbs 9 oz (which is the 5th percentile!!) and he's 29 1/4 inches long (70th percentile). Still a string bean! We'll see if he stays on the charts, he dropped from 25th to 5th percentile in four months! But he's eating like a horse now, he loves real food, especially blueberries! I'm not sure if that's going to help him pack on the pounds, but we'll see! So, here's the good stuff... a bunch of Case pictures!
My new favorite picture of him...
Eating his blueberries
At the zoo in the butterfly area
Case and Cousin Macey
These are from the day he turned 10 months old, how did this happen!?
Recently, he learned to crawl up the stairs here at the Eikums and it's almost all he wants to do now. His favorite thing is being "chased" up the stairs. We were of course following him to make sure he didn't fall back down the stairs and now he loves the chase game, especially when Matty does noises along with it. He also recently learned to pull himself up on just about anything. He walks along the furniture and LOVES walking behind his toy walker. He's gotten pretty good and he thinks it's the greatest thing ever, as always smiling his big toothy grin! Case also thinks it's the greatest thing to stand up. He practices all by himself by sitting on the bottom step and standing up and down, giggling away! He can now stand for 3-4 seconds all by himself.
He loves being tickled, and getting anyone to smile at him or laugh with him about who knows what! We love him so much and we are so grateful that he's such a happy baby! We had his "9 month" appointment but because of all the moving/visiting family and trying to get into a pediatrician here it was actually two days before he turned 10 months old. He weighs 17 lbs 9 oz (which is the 5th percentile!!) and he's 29 1/4 inches long (70th percentile). Still a string bean! We'll see if he stays on the charts, he dropped from 25th to 5th percentile in four months! But he's eating like a horse now, he loves real food, especially blueberries! I'm not sure if that's going to help him pack on the pounds, but we'll see! So, here's the good stuff... a bunch of Case pictures!
Happy Case
My new favorite picture of him...
Eating his blueberries
At the zoo in the butterfly area
Case and Cousin Macey
These are from the day he turned 10 months old, how did this happen!?
Monday, July 13, 2009
Farewell to good friends
Matty and I love hanging out with some of our friends from college, the Darrs and the Aldrichs. Unfortunately, we cannot seem to manage being in the same state at the same time as the Aldrichs. They spent a year and a half teaching English in Thailand and Korea and when they moved home, we left for Maryland a month later. Now that we are back, they are taking off to teach in the Philippines. So on Saturday we got together with our usual group!
We first went to Steve and Sarah's for some appetizers and a little Norwegian Golf. Sarah and I played Steve and Andy, and we won! Steve tried to blame it on Case being too distracting or in the way or something, excuses, excuses... Then we headed to Brasa which is a Creole restaurant. It was really good, I'd definitely recommend it to anyone! After that we walked down to Grand Old Creamery where we of course made a scene - I won't mention which couple was the worst, but between the three of us couples it's always somebody! We always have a great time with these couples, and pretty much spend the whole time laughing, but after the fact I can't even remember what about!
(Lisa Aldrich, me, Matty, Steve and Sarah Darr, and Andy Aldrich)
We first went to Steve and Sarah's for some appetizers and a little Norwegian Golf. Sarah and I played Steve and Andy, and we won! Steve tried to blame it on Case being too distracting or in the way or something, excuses, excuses... Then we headed to Brasa which is a Creole restaurant. It was really good, I'd definitely recommend it to anyone! After that we walked down to Grand Old Creamery where we of course made a scene - I won't mention which couple was the worst, but between the three of us couples it's always somebody! We always have a great time with these couples, and pretty much spend the whole time laughing, but after the fact I can't even remember what about!Fun, Food and Freedom
The title of my post definitely sums up the fourth of July weekend. We had plenty of fun, plenty of food and of course, the 4th helps us remember how wonderful our freedom is in this country. However, there is a great story behind how I can up with this title. My mom had this close group of friends from college (she went to Bethel as well) and they are really good about having reunions, keeping in contact, etc. They named themselves the FFF. For years I heard about the FFF and never knew what it stood for, always assuming it was something cheesy about Friends Forever yada, yada, yada. So when I was in college I finally decided to ask her what it stood for. And you guessed it, she said, Fun, Food and Freedom!?! I thought that was hysterical. "Freedom from what?" I asked, and her response was, "Well the Bethel rules of coarse!" Can you tell she was in college in the 70's?! So anyways, that's what popped in my head when I thought of the fourth of July weekend.
On Thursday night we headed to the Saints Game with some of our good college friends, The Darrs, Hyders, Schiestls, and some friends of theirs we just met The Bohlens. It was a perfect MN evening, but I can't even tell you if the Saints won or lost.
Hannah picked Case and I up from the game to head up to her cabin for the weekend. It was great hanging out with her family and some of their family friends. On Friday morning her mom made some delicious chocolate chip pancakes and then we spent the day reading and relaxing in the sun! That evening Andrea, Ryan and Coleman came over to hang out. It was, as always, so much fun to see the boys play and it was great catching up with Andrea and Ryan.
Matt drove up that night to join us. And after Andrea and Ryan left the rest of us stayed up late playing Hoopla and Pass it Pictionary. It was so much fun just sitting around the table laughing and playing games.
On Saturday we woke up to Monkey Bread, does it get any better than that? We then spent the day floating in the water, on the boat, kneeboarding and tubing. Matt, Case and I went on the tube all at the same time. It was so great!
Saturday night we made a fire, had smores (my favorite thing, ever!) and watched fireworks. The fireworks woke Case up so we grabbed a blanket and he came and snuggled and watched fireworks with us. It was a perfect end to the weekend!
On Thursday night we headed to the Saints Game with some of our good college friends, The Darrs, Hyders, Schiestls, and some friends of theirs we just met The Bohlens. It was a perfect MN evening, but I can't even tell you if the Saints won or lost.
Hannah picked Case and I up from the game to head up to her cabin for the weekend. It was great hanging out with her family and some of their family friends. On Friday morning her mom made some delicious chocolate chip pancakes and then we spent the day reading and relaxing in the sun! That evening Andrea, Ryan and Coleman came over to hang out. It was, as always, so much fun to see the boys play and it was great catching up with Andrea and Ryan.
Matt drove up that night to join us. And after Andrea and Ryan left the rest of us stayed up late playing Hoopla and Pass it Pictionary. It was so much fun just sitting around the table laughing and playing games.On Saturday we woke up to Monkey Bread, does it get any better than that? We then spent the day floating in the water, on the boat, kneeboarding and tubing. Matt, Case and I went on the tube all at the same time. It was so great!
Saturday night we made a fire, had smores (my favorite thing, ever!) and watched fireworks. The fireworks woke Case up so we grabbed a blanket and he came and snuggled and watched fireworks with us. It was a perfect end to the weekend!
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