Christmas morning at the Kaseburg's

We had such a great morning at David's parent's home. It's always so nice to have breakfast and open gifts with everyone- a family tradition. I was sad though that for some reason the famous Kathy Kaseburg cinnamon rolls did not turn out; at least we had Aunt Paula's delicious almond bread.

It was a full house with Heather's family, Heidi's family and us, not to mention Derek's parent's were in town from Boston to join our little group. What a nice couple they are!







Thad did start to get a bit cranky though with all the excitement and so we headed home for the afternoon for nap time and returned later for Christmas dinner. What a fun and busy day.

~~BABIES~~

Our extended family is growing like wild fire! This year alone we have two new additions to the family. David's cousins Chris and Kyle both welcomed new baby boys in October. This is a first child for Kyle and Kristen (Evan, Oct. 7th) and the second for Chris and Rebekah (Levi, Oct. 29th); Simon was a year in June.











I wonder who will be next...

SNOW!! It's almost Christmas!

David is such a great artist. I took a picture of the cute drawing he made on Thad's little sketch toy.



He's so modest, but I just had to share it!

...and the proof that winter is upon us, pictures of the first snow!

A special haircut for Thad

Thad's first haircut went really well, so I'm not sure why he has been so unwilling to let anyone cut his hair again. We had been doing it ourselves and it just started to look too much like a "bowl haircut". So, I asked Thad if it would be okay if his auntie Heidi cut his hair. His responce was good, so we called her up.





Thad had a nice visit with his cousin Blake and got to get a very cute haircut as well. Thad was happy just feeding Blake teddy graham cookies while I held him up to watch. The boys love playing together and I really think they will be the best of friends as the years go on.

Should we get frequent flyer miles for the hospital?

Thad is actually known at Overlake Hospital. He was even given a little toy ambulance from one of the nurses on our last trip in there! I feel like we should get some kind of package deal or something. Maybe if we pre-buy four visits, we could get the fifth one free.

Thad was so sweet at the Hospital the day before Halloween. Poor kid. He was so cute though! As we left, there were about five staff members just adoring him. He told them thank you and said bye-bye. When we went to get in the chair to go, he said "sit down", and got in the chair all by himself. So I put him in the chair and they gave him his mask...you can see in the pics he was putting it on his puppy dog. He actually remembered it was used on him over his nose. They gave him a balloon that said "you're special" on it. I think he is. One of the ladies said I "hit the baby jackpot". That was so nice to hear.

Then there was the visit to the ER for his first stitches! Good thing it was October 1st and the deductable for the insurance carries over from the last 3 months of the year into the next year! One day sooner and we would have had to pay again next year...and at this rate, we may see the ER again in 2008! He is his father's son you know!