Swimming Baby

This has been quite a week. The weather was warm and sunny until Friday when the snow arrived.

Tracy, Casey and Frisco went for a hike on Tuesday with Sarah and Rowan (born the same day as Casey). It was a beautiful day out and both girls fell asleep in the backpack on the way back. Wednesday Casey went to daycare. Thursday, Casey went swimming at the rec center with her friend Rowan. She loved the pool. She really liked to crawl around the 1 foot. She even went under water 3 times. Pretty funny wide-eyed look when she came back out of the water, but was smiling. After swimming, we drove down to Denver and stayed the night at Geoff, Sarah, and Kaelin's house. Friday we met Aunt Kel for lunch, ran some errands, then picked Stan up at the airport. We drove back up to Dillon in a snow storm!

Early Sat morning we headed to Aspen, with Kristi. We stayed with Ken & Stacy and their 7 month old, Isaac. Sat afternoon, while Stacy, Tracy and the babies went to lunch, Stan, Ken and Kristi went riding at Snowmass. There was a whole lot of new snow and they had a blast. Sunday, Ken & Stacy were kind enough to babysit Casey, so Tracy, Stan and Kristi could ride at Aspen Highlands. They had called in 9 new inches, but there was def more than that. The snow was incredible. Thanks Ken and Stacy for your hospitality.

We did not make it to the XGames this year, instead, enjoyed them on TV...

Casey has lots of new teeth. She has 4 on the bottom and 5 on top. All week she has been playing with her tongue...looking like a lizard. She has also been sticking it out when she's studying something or trying hard to do something (like pulling herself up).

enjoy the pix!

Casey & Rowan

Enjoying the water

eating lunch with Aunt Kel

Ken & Stan at Snowmass

Stan & Tracy at the Aspen Highlands bowl

Stan wiped out in the powder

Tracy, Stacy and Casey at the bar in Aspen watching the VT basketball game

Dads and babies watching the game

The Explorer

This week Casey learned some new stuff.

* She is crawling for real now and loves it! Which means she is exploring a lot more. She used to just stay in the living room and play...now she is all over the place. She even crawled over to the stairs last night and pulled herself up on the first step. We're not sure we're ready for this.

* She has started eating real food. She has tried pieces of banana, bread, puffs, avocado and turkey. She makes a funny face when she puts it in her mouth, but she keeps eating them. She is still working on picking up each piece and putting it in her mouth, but she is getting better at it.

* She drank out of a sippy cup. When she would actually get the spout in her mouth, she did finally figure out how to tip it and get the formula into her mouth. It was a pretty messy experiment though...formula all over the place.

* She also went on her first winter hike...

* She wore her first pair of tennis shoes (thanks Lily for the cute hand me downs). Ok kind of a stretch for a "first's" list...but she looked really cute in them:)

showing off all her teeth

family photo

casey enjoying the first half of the hike

the second half of the hike

There's No Place Like Home

After 3 days of driving, we made it back home to Dillon. Casey was an angel in the car and in the hotels. But she was definitely ready to be out of her car seat! Frisco was pretty good...still panting a lot, but we crated her in the back this time, so we didn't notice it as much. Stan made the trip back with us and is worked from home last week.

Our last week in VA was spent at Southside Tuesday night, Dec 30, where Stan's band, SML, headlined. Casey and Frisco spent the night with Grandpa Tom and Grandma Gail. Basically neither of them notice that we're gone and get a little confused the next day when we pick them up...like they aren't ready to leave!

New Years Eve was not so exciting this year...Stan & Tracy had awful colds/flu, so stayed in bed most of the day/night. TV coverage wasn't that exciting either...but we are looking forward to the New Year! Thursday night we all went over to Grandma Gail and Grandpa Tom's again to watch the Hokies finally win a bowl game! After a good night's rest, we were off to CO! With a stop in Casey, IL (how cute) and Colby, KS, we made it home early afternoon on Sunday, Jan 4. Lots of snow on the ground and temperatures in the teens!

Casey started her first day of daycare on Wednesday. She seemed to enjoy it and they seem to enjoy her! Stan and Tracy got to go snowboarding at Keystone that day! Thursday was Ullr Fest...the God of Snow. Casey was a trooper. We bundled her up and brought her to the Ullr parade in Breckenridge and hung out celebrating Ullr until 9:00 p.m. What a party girl!

Over Christmas, Casey started pulling herself up to standing position. And we even saw her crawl on her knees a few times, but mostly still army crawling. She is slowly getting used to real food. We'll give her pieces of bread and banana and puffs. She has figured out that they go in her mouth and she is supposed to eat them. This weekend she actually ate a few bites! She is growing more and more independent. She likes to pull herself up using the coffee table and then feels like she should be able to grab anything she wants up there. She is not a big fan of the word, "NO." She loves all her Christmas presents. We have them set up in the living room and she'll crawl over to the pile and play with pretty much everything! She is still a great sleeper. She takes 2 naps during the day and then goes to bed around 7:00 p.m. She wakes up around 7:00-8:00 a.m.

That's all for now. I'll try and get back to my weekly postings!

Ullr Girl

bundled up for the Ullr parade with Harriett

riding her car

SML at Southsides

daddy, teach me a song