28!

Well I'm officially 28 years old! We celebrated last night with our friends, the Gloriosos and the Bohrers. Thanks to Laurel & Sara Beth for making a great mexican meal and a beautiful cake! Mmmm.... chocolate chip cookie cake! I stole this pic from the Glorioso's blog -

Making Friends

Today my friend Erika and I took Reister to our city's children's hospital for an event sponsored by Nestle. Nestle makes baby cereal and formula here and put on an event in lieu of Children's Day (June 1). Anyone could take their baby to have a simple check-up that included measuring the baby's head, height and weight. You could also ask the "experts" any questions. Reister's head is 18.5 in (47 cm), he is 28.15 in (71 cm) tall, and weighs 18.5 lbs (8.4 kg). He has put on some weight this month! Thanks for all your pryrs! The flyer about the event said there would be a competition of some sort. I didn't see one going on when we got there so I asked someone about it. She said "Oh well, we could have one, wait just a minute." Within a couple minutes, several babies were all on the large foam play mat and they had started the crawling race. But just before that a little boy had given Reister an play guitar and he was so infatuated with it that he just sat at one end playing with it. Finally with the help of some of the Nestle ladies, we got him to chase the guitar down the mat. Now the funny part is that normally when he crawls, he "army crawls", but today he crawled all the way down the mat on his hands and knees. I thought surely he would be last because he started last but in the end he got to the very end of the mat first! Well all the other babies were kind of playing along the way (the way you'd expect in a baby crawling race). But one of the Nestle ladies announced "1st place!" and gave us a box of rice cereal as a prize! Way to go Reister! Ha ha! Below are some pictures and a video from the event. Sorry the video is sideways, I took it on my cell phone and accidently turned it to the side!
I'm so thankful I went because I met a mom who doesn't work and stays home with her 12 month old. Most moms here work and the grandparents take care of the babies so I haven't been able to make friends with someone whose schedule is as flexible as mine. I hope to contact her soon so we can get our boys together and visit.

The very end of the race (that's Reister)


The proud Mom and champion (notice how tightly he's clutching the guitar)


The play mat - one of the Nestle ladies in the orange t-shirt to the right of Reister. The little boy to his left is the one who gave him the guitar. His mom was one of the Nestle ladies.


This baby could crawl soooo fast. They said she was only 11 months but she looked a lot older to me.


Reister wasn't sure he wanted to share the guitar


"This guitar is AWESOME!"


Here's the video

Yay for Reister!

Isn't that fun!? Would you please ask the Father that Reister would put on some weight? He's doing great developmentally and maybe it's because he's so active but he's not been gaining too much weight lately. Thanks!

What's a Meme?

Honestly, I have no idea what "meme" means or how it's pronounced, but I guess I'm going to "do" one... or post one... or play... or whatever. Kelley tagged me so I am going to do it. Here are the directions:

Each player starts with 7 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things, as well as these rules. You need to choose 7 people to get tagged and list their names.
1. I love Sour Patch Kids candy
2. I sometimes think Bananas taste "spicy" and Micah thinks I'm really weird for saying that.
3. I played the flute in 6th, 7th & 8th grade.
4. I've started doing yoga in the last 6 months and really like it (there is no spiritual component in the classes I go to).
5. I love to snow ski but haven't been in almost 10 years - on that note, I love Colorado - any time of the year, but I also haven't been there in a long time.
6. I really enjoy looking at other people's blogs - especially ones with babies the same age as Reister!
7. Although I LOVE Dr. Pepper, I haven't had one since Valentines Day at Teresa's Pizza restaurant in Kunming.

Okay so now I tag 7 people.... (I'm going to tag people that I think read our blog)
SB, Lindsey R, Cheryl, Sandra, Sara, Germaine, Kari

May Day

Here's Reister funny face...

Fun times in the laundry hamper!

Reister trying to grab his friend Eden's hair!

Quality time with Dad

"Hmmm what can I get into next...."

"Um, Dad, are all those people looking at me?"

In the bath!

"I love this little ducky!"

Family Pic at the park

Reister can now feed himself a bottle! (With the Boppy's help)

Crawlin Man

Here, May 1st is Labor Day - everyone has a week off from work and school! In our city, they have an annual Tulip Festival - below are some pics from our recent trip to the park here.