February

We went skiing at Loveland with Cooper's coworker Abby, her husband Jasen, and their son Blake who is 6 weeks older than Aaron.


Aaron has been playing in his Johnny Jump Up. Although, he has very little traction on our wood floors!

February 13-19

We spent President's Day Weekend and Valentine's Day at our friend Matt's house in Basalt. We skied the best skiing in Colorado at Snowmass.

Aaron has been playing a lot with his toys. He loves to grab and hold onto things.


He decided to wear Matt's work glasses when he and Daddy were admiring Matt's new tools.


Hanging out with our friend Kathleen:

January 31-February 9

We spent the weekend of Jan. 31 in Keystone with a group of friends. Our friends Molly and Tom brought their 6 month old daughter Ella. She and Aaron had a really good time together! He decided that he really liked her pink ball, so I found him a blue one this week. (The kids held hands on their own.)


Aaron fell asleep on the floor wearing his bear suit.
He loves to read books with his babysitter's daughter. They live next door to us.
Our friends Ryan and Katie came over for dinner last week with their son who is two and their 11 week old daughter.
Aaron was hanging out with me while I cooked dinner.
Unfortunately, the pics end here because our house has had cooties since last Friday. Aaron and I have had the stomach flu and are almost fully recovered now! We managed to infect our friend Deron too. So far, Cooper has been very lucky but has had to work from home to play Mr. Mom to a sick little boy.

16 Weeks

We gave Aaron his first rice cereal over the weekend. As you can see, it didn't go particularly well...
We went out to dinner at our favorite spot in Golden on Friday night-Tequilas. Aaron wore his new sweater Uncle Mick gave him.


Aaron has started laughing A LOT. EVERYTHING is funny. Cooper managed to catch it on film.
He fell asleep in his gym with his hands over his head. I guess he is not so much into working out.

MLK Weekend in Estes Park

We spent 3 days in Estes Park for the long weekend. We skinned up the old ski resort at Hidden Valley in Rocky Mountain National Park on Saturday. Aaron went along in his Chariot. We learned why it is far more suitable for cross country skiing. The pictures have been censored to protect the grandparents, but he slept the entire way and we had a great time. On Sunday, we went snowshoeing in Rocky Park. Cooper carried Aaron in the Baby Bjorn. I had Monday off for MLK Day, which also happened to be my birthday. We went skiing at Eldora. It was a really good weekend.

Snowsuit on and ready to go...
Elk in Rocky Mountain National Park:
Snowshoeing in Rocky Mountain National Park:
Lounging by the fire after a bath:

15 Weeks-January

We went to Glenwood Springs to visit and ski. We went skiing at Snowmass and Sunlight. Aaron took a nap on the couch in the lodge.



Aaron got a new excersaucer for Christmas. He is quite busy in it, but still a bit small for it.


He has learned how to stick his toungue out in response to us doing it.

Christmas in Houston

We drove to Houston to spend Aaron's first Christmas with my family.


Opening gifts with Uncle Mick:

First Christmas Santa hat and p.j.'s:

Sitting with Papa:

Oma ready to open gifts:
Oma (The second) and Papa with Aaron:

Uncle Bill and Tantsi at Christmas dinner:

A little too much excitement: