Baby ice cream cone

After dinner tonight we decided to go to Handel's for ice cream and they gave Thomas a free baby ice cream cone. It was the cutest little miniature version of a vanilla cone with little candy eyeballs. Thomas LOVED it! He ATE IT ALL...even the cone!. Granted he was a mess afterward but it was worth it for him to have his first ever ice cream cone experience!!

Grandma Berghoff is here!

Grandma Berghoff came down Wednesday night to help mommy and daddy out by watching Thomas during the day while Amy is on vacation with her family. Yesterday grandma and Thomas went shopping and visited Aunt Tanya and Buster and Nina (the dogs!). Then he played basketball outside with the neighbor and grandma took him to the park where he tried to escape up the slide...grandma had to run after him to catch up!

Today they are home together again and who knows what kind of fun/trouble? they are getting into to...Hopefully Thomas isn't wearing grandma out tooo much!!

First Play "date" (and kiss!) with Liv

Thomas had his first playdate with Olivia last night. They had an awesome time and it was good to see Mae and Scott again! (I'm sad to say the last time was Christmas '07?- Where does the time go?) Anyway, the babies had a fabulous time and thoroughly enjoyed eachother! They played with Liv's table toy and then ate dinner on the sunporch (Boston Market, yum!). Then we all took a dip in the pool. I think Liv loved the water and Thomas got to show off his pool BBAll skills:) After swimming the kids got their jammers on and we called it a night. Before she left though, Liv and Thomas shared a goodnight kiss. I'm still smiling just thinking about it. It was the cutest thing I've ever seen!! We'll definetly have to get them together again soon!

Goodnight Kisses

Last night was the first time Thomas gave Mommy and Daddy goodnight kisses! So sweet!!

Birthdays and reunion

Thomas playing Bball with dad at the 2009 Berghoff Family Reunion

He's addicted!-- Do they have ball players anonymous?:-)


Thomas and Aidan (with Sara and Travis) at the reunion


Playing with a truck at cousin Riley's 4th birthday party... all the while keeping an eye out for balloons of course!


Thomas wallking with grandpa at Riley's birthday party in huntington. We had lots of fun. There was food, fun and even a spongbob pinata!

ARhhh matey!

Look at our cute little pirate!!

Thomas recently started lifting his arms to help mommy and daddy take his shirts off (yay!). Occasionally, though they still get stuck on his head:)

Thomas is going to the zoo today with Amy and the boys. I must admit I'm a bit jealous not be going along but excited for Bubs because I know he is going to have a great time! BTW lets all say God Bless to Amy for taking 2 babies, a 3 year old and a 5 year old to the zoo by herself!!

Walking one-handed

Thomas is down to only needing to hold one of our hands to help him walk now...

We're running out of time though...his next Dr.'s appt is only 2 weeks away!!

I did hear however, that Eli Manning didn't walk until he was 16 months old so that makes me feel a little bit better:) Maybe we've just got a pro athlete in the making!!

Thomas took his first step!!!

Thomas has officially taken his first "non-assisted" step and we were lucky enough to get it on video!! Both his dad and I are VERY proud. Now we just have to keep practicing and practicing!!

I keep telling him he's gotta walk by Aug 13th (for his 15 month check up) or his doctor is going to think we're bad parents!

We went to the Fair!

Saturday was the Hamilton County fair so we decided to take Thomas for his first Fair experience. It was a blast! Thomas got to see (real) cows, pigs, goats, bunnies and chickens. I think the goats were his favorite as he wanted to walk through the cages and touch them all. I don't think he quite knew what to think about the big moo cows but did enjoy petting the bunnies. He stole mom's corndog (thank goodness I ordered 2!) and drank mommy and daddy's lemon shakeups. We also all shared an elephant ear because everyone knows a trip to the fair isn't complete without an elephant ear!

Playing in the sand

Here's a video of Thomas playing in the sand at the lake last weekend. Travis just happened to be recording him when he threw the sand on his head. It was pretty funny and cute. As you can see Thomas had a great time!

We went to Chili's for dinner last night (big surprise!) and Thomas didn't want to eat his macaroni and cheese. All he wanted was chocolate milk. We thought it was a little wierd but didn't think too much about it. Then about an hour after he went to bed he woke up crying. When I went to get him he had gotten sick ALL OVER his bed and filled his diaper. POOR THING!, his belly must have been upset. So we took a quick bath, had some mom and dad love on Thomas time and put him back to bed. He slept the rest of the night just fine and seemed okay this morning. Let's keep our fingers crossed this isn't the start of something...

Guess who backed himself into the pool last night before bed? Thomas! We were out back right before bed and the little stinker tried to get in the pool with his jammers on! Silly baby. We ended up stripping him down to his night-time diaper and letting him swim with dad for a bit!! I mean who doesn't enjoy a little evening swim? :)

Pictures from our weekend at the lake

We've got #8

I think we've got tooth #8. I tried to take a look last night and it appears that Thomas now has all 4 of his front top and bottom teeth. We're still working on the molars...

Lake time!

Oh my goodness we had the busiest, most fun weekend ever! First Thomas spent the night with Gma and Gpa Berghoff and then got to go to grandpa Bowers' lake for the first time this season. He loved it! I've got pictures of him playing in the sand and swimming. He had no fear of the lake water and kept having us walk him out to the buoy line. He also ate hot dogs, took his first boat ride and even went tubing with mommy! I'll try to get some pictures posted tonight...

good good went bye bye

Unfortunatly we had to return Kimmy this weekend. I know Thomas LOVED having her around and I'm sure he will miss her...

By the end of the week he had eaten out of her bowl twice (that I know of!), dumped her water numerous times, shared lord only knows how many goldfish and received countless doggie kisses!! Thomas also started calling dogs "good good" while Kimmy was vistiting. Of course now I think he thinks anything furry is a "good good" but hey at least its a start right?!!!

But it's cold!

So since it has been colder the past week or so the pool is pretty cold right now... and apparently this doesn't bother Thomas AT ALL. The last few times we've been out back playing he has tried to get in the pool! He has learned how to turn around and go down stairs backward so this is now what he does to the pool steps. Yesterday he backed himself into the first step and then laughed (I'm assuming because it was cold!) and then went down one more step until his clothes were all wet laughing some more. I had to "persuade" him it was too cold to play in the pool by distracting him with a ball! When he got out his legs were all red from the coldness of the water...what a crazy baby!

I must admit though, his laughter as he backed himself into the water was super cute!!

Working on molars

We think Thomas is working on his 1 year molars. Amy said she saw his teeth and thinks all 4 molars are trying to come in at the same time. Poor kid...ouch! We are trying to keep him comfortable with motrin and tylenol and anything else he wants! Yesterday morning a frozen pancake seemed to help:)

On a great note he is still sleeping like a champ!! Bedtime between 8 and 8:30 and sleeping until about 7am...Oh how mommy and daddy are LOVING the consecutive hourse of sleep!

4th of July

We had a busy but fun 4th of July this weekend. Grandma, aunt Sabrina and Kimmy stayed over Friday night. Saturday morning we went to Thomas' first parade. It rained a little, actually more like dribbled, so it didn't stop our fun. Thomas really liked all the balloons and was very interested in all the big red fire trucks. We even saw a moose! He reallly enjoyed playing with the umbrella (his first experience with this!) and watching all the people. Saturday grandma and aunt Sabrina took Thomas with them and met grandma and grandpa Berghoff for a baby drop off. He then spent the day at the lake with great-grandma and grandpa Watters and then stayed overnight in the Fort. From the sounds of things it seems he had a fabulous time and now probably thinks that mom and dad are boring! Luckily we're dogsitting this week so Kimmy is around to help keep Thomas entertained.

We're still working on walking and Thomas is getting better and better behind his fire truck. At least now he doesn't immediately drop to his knees like he use to! Now we've just got to get him use to wearing shoes. Speaking of which Thomas did the cutest thing last night. We were sitting in the screen room and he went back inside and threw dad's shoes back into the room 1 by 1. Then after both dad's sandals and flip flops were in the screen room he came in and attempted to put dad's sandals on! It was so cute!! At first I couldn't figure out what he was doing because he kept grabbing his foot and pulling it but then he finally got it into the shoe and looked around very pleased with himself. He truly is learning something new everyday and Travis and I are having the absolute best time with him!!

Look at those guns!!

This picture is from weekend before last but I had to share because it cracks me up! Thomas is just too cute in his little muscle shirt... :-)

Haircut #3

Thomas had his 3rd haircut this weekend. He looks like such a big boy now!