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Elsie had her last night of swimming lessons … there was no official graduation but if there was she would have graduated with HONORS!! Here is some final night photos:
We have a new (and improved!) nanny*. This past Monday Andrea started as Elsie’s full time care taker – Elsie is already in heaven. Andrea spends the day playing, reading and holding elsie’s fingers as she endlessly walks around the… Continue Reading →
well yesterday… We had a low key day (final swim lessons) but we did open a Valentine from Grammie and Grampa which included some fun books and this very cute pink (of course) hoodie! Sadly dad was under the weather… Continue Reading →
After a few scorching summers on our South facing back patio, we came to the conclusion that we needed a shade structure. We were lucky enough that Kevin had a contact that he worked with in Montana who supplied reclaimed… Continue Reading →
I am sure many of you know about my addiction to Etsy … so when a blog pointed to these cute little hats from PDX Beanies I had to get them for Nicholas and Elsie for our trip to California… Continue Reading →
Movie Star! This cute little dress was a hand-me-down from Saffron to Elsie (saffie’s head can’t fit through the top, but elsie’s pin head can) – its a super cute baby nay outfit.
Elsie started swimming lessons at our local rec center … she is a star-baby! We signed up with Kyla (one of Elsie’s friends and a former birth class couple). These lessons focused on acclimating the little star babies to water… Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago (been a bit lazy on posting) we took a trip back to the Bay Area. Mark and I both had work and decided it was time for the Bean to see our old stomping ground. We… Continue Reading →
I am a reader of a blog called babygadget (along with a whole host of other baby, design, party blogs) which highlights the new cool must haves for babies and parents. I constantly find packages at my door and then… Continue Reading →
We headed up to the mountains this past weekend for our first ski trip with the Spruills. We headed up Friday afternoon to avoid the predicted snow … no such luck… Fortunately the roads were just slightly wet and the… Continue Reading →
I am pretty sure the geese were having a convention on the 4th fairway – maybe they didn’t get the word that the caucus was in Iowa. Honk if you love OBAMA!
we went out for new years dinner with Heidi and Jason (who recently moved to Colorado – right down the street!) at the GreenBriar Inn. We had a 6 course menu complete with champagne and some yummy wine! It was… Continue Reading →
We got elsie some baubles for New Years … She preferred to chew them instead of wear them
we have a wirey head massager thingy called the tingler – elsie loves it. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_wzaymwESg[/youtube]
We took a walk yesterday and stopped to let Elsie have some snow time in her Pink Patagonia snow suit …
Here are some shots of elsie enjoying her christmas loot … Chewing (favored activity) on her christmas bear from the Jost’s Playing with her Elmo Table from Riley, Heather, Finley and Robb! New duds from Grammie Elsie wondering why Cricket… Continue Reading →
Elsie’s first Christmas was a blast – we were lucky enough to have both families here to celebrate. Michael and Alison in from England, Chloe in from San Fran, and my parents down from Montana. On Christmas morning we were… Continue Reading →
too cute : http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1841218603
Christmas always brings tamales to thunder lake circle as the Baros hold their annual party. This year, they took things up a notch by inviting Santa to the party. Santa had a list of all the neighborhood children (most of… Continue Reading →
Who can resist her chuckles!
Calling all models! We took a few shots of Elsie for our New Year’s cards (to be sent out shortly) and had her try on her new Uggs (thanks Niko). She is even grown up enough to wear a ribbon… Continue Reading →
My parents had their annual Christmas party this weekend which was a good kickstart for the holidays. Elsie was overwhelmed by all of the new attention – bit of her dad in her, but we had a great time. This… Continue Reading →
We were up in Montana with my folks this weekend and attended the annual Santa brunch at the Yellowstone Country Club. Elsie was all dressed up ready for her big meeting with Ho Ho! (Finley showed us how to put… Continue Reading →
We had quite a thanksgiving this year in Colorado – we were lucky to have my aunt sandy, uncle rod, grandma ruby, Kev, tyler, dylan, lauren and of course my parents. We had a wonderful dinner! We usually spend turkey… Continue Reading →
this weekend we all went to Lucille’s for some yummy breakfast – we brought along elsie’s travel booster chair so she could be included. I snapped these photos because it tickled me to see what a big girl she has… Continue Reading →
We finally got our new B.O.B. jogging stroller – uh does that mean we have to start jogging? Elsie can’t wait!
Elsie had her 6 month check up last week. She is changing so much! We had more shots this time, Yuck!, but it gave us a cute little look into our bean’s personality – last time we had shots and… Continue Reading →
We did a final dress up for Halloween and got ready for our trick or treaters … Elsie didn’t know what to make of mama in a black wig She is wondering if Mama black widows eat their young …… Continue Reading →
Last weekend grammie, grampa and auntie chloe came to town for a visit which gave us a chance to do some pre-halloween celebrating. Elsie with Grammie … Orange and Black! Grammie and I reworked Elsie’s costume after some feedback from… Continue Reading →
Yesterday we received a returned package in the mail … Only took 5 1/2 months to make the round trip from New York back to Colorado … I think we should get our $3 back.
This weekend I made elsie’s halloween costume – a baby black widow and we gave it a quick test run. Elsie spends most of the time trying to grab the legs off of the body suit and put them in… Continue Reading →
Only 2 years after we got our landscaping done, I finally installed some landscape lighting. It’s amazing what a difference it makes in the evenings to have a few spots and path lights installed. Part of the delay was that… Continue Reading →
This morning Heather, Robb and Riley welcomed the newest member of the Bergeson family – Miss Finley Lauren. She weighed in at 7lbs 13 ounces and 19 inches long!! Here are some pics of the new family (of course Heather… Continue Reading →
Elsie is on to solid food (well ok semi-solid and bland rice cereal). She is happy and willing to put anything in her mouth and a spoon of cereal is no different – next milestone is keeping the cereal in… Continue Reading →
Okay, so it’s only a light dusting that was melted by afternoon, but this weekend we got our first taste of winter.
well since it was raining at the patch we took some more photos at home with our faux pumpkins … cricket had to get in on the halloween action – it IS black cat month you know!! Happy Halloween from… Continue Reading →
We visited the pumpkin patch this weekend with the spruill’s. We put on Grammie’s halloween outfit, our new fleece jacket (it was a cold and rainy weekend) and of course our bat hat … Yancey grabbed the cart and we… Continue Reading →