Stella

We realized that we have never posted any pictures of Stella (our dog) on the blog and since Stella is one of Isaiah's favorite things in the world figured we should.

Merry Christmas!

We hope that you all had a lovely Christmas. We enjoyed ourselves celebrating with Cassie's family. Both Isaiah and his cousin, Olivia, are moving around now, so it is fun to watch them play. Isaiah is army crawling and doing a forward launch from his hands and knee position (we think he looks like a seal moving on land). Here are a few pictures from our Christmas celebration.

Sophia helping Isaiah opening his presents.

Isaiah and Olivia enjoying their new toys.

Opening his presents.

Isaiah on Christmas morning.

Michigan

We are finally getting over our colds and settling back into life at home. We had a great time in Michigan and got to see a lot of family and friends. Isaiah had a lot of new experiences while in Michigan; he learned how to drop a toy (on purpose so someone will pick it up), get up on his hands and knees and to creep (he can move around quite well); experienced snow for the first time; he had a "sitter"(grandma)--Matthew and I had multiple trips out together by themselves including grocery shopping, lunch with Grandma Timmer and a movie; met a ton of new people; got his first tooth and went on his first airplane ride. It was a busy week. Here are are a few pictures from our trip. (Click on them to see them larger).

Grandma with Hudson, Isaiah and Jaiden.

Isaiah in his snow suit.

Matthew's cousins get together every Monday morning with their kids.

(Some are missing from the picture)

Playing twister at the Christmas party.

Isaiah with Uncle Joe and Taylor.

Grandparents

Grandpa and Grandma with all the grandchildren.

Isaiah with his Great Grandpa and Grandma Van Hill.

Isaiah and Grandma.

Isaiah talking to Great-Grandma Van Hill

Four generations of Timmer's.

We head back to California in a few hours and Isaiah is certainly going to miss all the attention he got over the last week. He loves to read books and play with his grandma and likes all the noises grandpa makes for him. We are hoping the plane ride will go okay; Isaiah caught a cold and is very congested. None of us got much sleep last night. Here are a few pictures, I'll post more when we get home. Click on any picture to see it larger.

5 Months, yesterday!

We have been enjoying our time in Michigan with friends and family. It has been snowing almost the whole time which has been fun, but Isaiah is not sure about the breathing in the cold air. Isaiah has decided that he loves to be on his hands and knees and is attempting to creep. He also started to cut his first tooth yesterday. I am not so sure I am ready for him to start to crawl, so we're hoping it will take a little while for him to figure it out. Some of Isaiah's favorite things are...baths, seeing how high-pitched he can scream, chewing on things, being tickled by daddy, and looking at other kids.

Isaiah's first time in the snow.

We're off to Michigan!

We leave for Michigan tomorrow morning for 10 days. We are looking forward to seeing family, introducing Isaiah to his Aunts, Uncles, and cousins and meeting our newest nephew, Ryan. Hopefully Isaiah will do okay on the plane.

He finally smiled at the camera (drooled a lot too).

This is Isaiah's new favorite sleeping position. He sticks his butt up in the air and sticks his hands under his stomach. (I know it's a lot of stripes, but most of his clothes are packed for Michigan so we don't have much to choose from :))