Mom and grandma flew into Milwaukee the Saturday before Christopher's birthday. We went to Edwardo's for pizza on the way back to Madison. That night we went to Stoughton to see the Syttende Mai play at the Village Players. It was great.

John, Jenny, Hailey and Joey came to Madison on the Sunday before Christopher's birthday. We grilled some stuff and hung out, we had a great time with them.

Monday I went into work for an hour long meeting, then I had the rest of the week off. Kim's parents flew into Madison and then we went out to eat.

Wednesday on Christopher's first birthday we had a bunch of people come over and help us celebrate. The kids enjoyed helping Christopher open presents, we grilled some more food, watched Christopher make a huge mess of the cake. Interestingly he was more interested in the cake than the frosting. We will need to post pictures of the cake, it was a Cat in the Hat cake, the cake looked just like the hat. Kim and her dad even put the proper bend to it, it was pretty amazing. The kids all had kazoos, I don't think the adults appreciated them, but the kids enjoyed them. Christopher has since figured out how to do it. I think he was a little overwhelmed by the number of people we had in our little house.

Mostly we hung out and played cards or Phase 10 or the like. Saturday Kim took mom and grandma back to the airport in Milwaukee because I wasn't feeling well.

I guess I never posted a Christmas blog.

We left for Sherman right after work and drove to Springfield Illinois. Christopher slept pretty much the entire way. I have to remember not to buy gas in Illinois if I can help it. We made it down to Muskogee Oklahoma the second day. We had thought about going all the way to Sherman, but we were just to tired to try. We went through Illinois and Missouri to avoid bad weather in the quicker route through Iowa.

Kim's parents arrived minutes before us and my aunt and grandma arrived about an hour later. We set up the Christmas tree. Tori drove up from Garland and she brought a Wii she won from work as well as her dog Cebu. We went to church on Christmas Eve, to a different church than the one they are attending now (fife months later I am finishing this entry).

We opened a bunch of gifts, Christopher had lots of toys. It was a lot colder in Sherman than I would have thought.

Karl, dad and I dug a trench through the road out to the barn. We put in a drainage pipe so the road doesn't get as washed out.

Kim and Christopher went back on Jan 1 to Anthony with Kim's parents. If they had gone back with me we'd all had to leave on the 2nd so I could have dropped them off in Madtown and then I would have had to take the bus back to Saint Louis. As it was I got to spend three extra days in Sherman with mom, dad and grandma.

Took me a bit to figure out the bike trailer, but it works wonderfully. I have been looking forward to taking Christopher on a bike ride since before he was born. He feel asleep sucking on his giraffe and making it squeak.
The doctor says we should wait just a bit before we take Christopher out on trips in it. The trailers can be kinda bouncy.

Looks like I never finished the Christmas entry.

His 9 month appointment went well. He is up to 50% for height and 4% for weight. 4% for weight is actually him catching up a bit since he didn't start on the charts. The 9 month evaluation didn't show any problems either.

The real reason for the post....

Kim posted this to YouTube. Thought you might enjoy. If you haven't seen a video of him in the last week or two you might notice that he is sitting up. It is really fascinating to me that when he decides to do something he just starts doing it. He was sitting up if I helped him, then he was sitting up if I balanced him, then he was sitting up by himself.