China...Trip #1

I recently had the pleasure of visiting China for business. I visited a factory that we will be setting up some new manufacturing at. It was a very quick trip, and I didn't get to see much of the countryside, but I will be going back again in June.


Here is a new building being built. Notice the Bamboo Scaffolding.




The train station and shopping center is CRAZY busy all day and night.



In China, they sell Snickers by the bucket... VERY NICE!



I didn't get out much, but my hotel room was VERY nice...

Hopefully this next trip I will be able to get more pictures of the city and countryside.

Now for some updated pictures of the little Gregor Boy


Enjoying the play area.


Sitting with Great-Grandma.

Nummy Ice-Cream Cone!

Fresh haircut, BIG smile

ENJOY!

Making my tired ache...

So we had a sick little boy a couple of weeks ago & I experienced a true joy of motherhood. Holding my weeping child while he pukes all over me, the really wonderful thing is knowing it will happen again and again as the years go on. Gregor has also started to experiment with temper tantrums- screaming and screaming until my eyes start to throb, we are experimenting with ignoring him. I'm thinking of buying lots of earplugs. We are enjoying things though too. He runs around everywhere like a maniac & makes us take him on walks all the time now that the weather is nicer. He is talking all the time, its impressive how many things he repeats from us- I'm now working on swearing less when I drive :)

Feeling Sick

Surprising each other

Covered in white chocolate


Sharing Elmo

Not listening

Just being my cutie :)

Yeah, Yeah, We need to post already....

Okay, so it is way past time for an update.

Gregor is growing like a weed, and once he discovered real words he has been a non-stop chatterbox. He has a little stuffed Elmo that he loves, and Elmo has become his favorite word. He really likes the word NO, and he likes his "duckie" when he is in the tub.

He loves to dance to any music that he hears, whether it is on the radio, or a TV theme song that he recognizes. Music videos make him really happy, especially when it is a cute female singer. He will stare at her the entire video and then look at you with a big smile when it is done. His favorite artists currently are Sonnet and Lady GaGa.

Here are some recent pictures:


Mischievious Little Mess Maker


The first happy taste of a Girl Scout Cookie

King of the Stuffed Toy Domain

Playing with Bon at Peri's House

Not quite sure about this "Outside" thing.

Hopefully we will be a bit better about future updates... Maybe...

Hey we posted again before the year was over :)

We've had a good couple of months, our cute little guy fills our days with love and irritation. Our Christmas was great and Gregor was super spoiled- thanks again to everyone who helped with the spoiling. Gregor has a new haircut- but I don't have pictures uploaded yet so you'll have to wait for those -otherwise enjoy the small selection of pictures we do have:

We have a hard time keeping him dressed

or with footwear on

he is so cute in his pajamas

Hated Santa this year

Christmas Eve

Opening presents Christmas morning

Christmas Day

Wondering why we are visiting Grandma instead of staying home so he can play with all his cool new toys.

Halloween Photos

Gregor decided that he wanted to be a little dinosaur for Halloween. He really enjoyed being in costume, except for the hat. He was facinated with the whole pumpkin carving idea, and he really likes roasted pumpkin seeds.

Without further ado... PICTURES

Fall Fun

So we have had another doctors visit with our sweet boy - he is now 31 inches tall and almost 21 lbs - he is doing well and only hates us a little when we have him vaccinated. He flirted with the nurse this time- until she held him down and stuck needles in his legs, then he didn't like her anymore.
He has been keeping us busy this month- he has started dragging us where he wants us to be and usually that is running around like a maniac or dancing...

We went to Lagoon today we traded off taking Gregor on kid rides, he mostly enjoyed it. He did have an accident while trying to walk with shoes on- face plant right on the asphault- poor thing. We had him try cotton candy- he wouldn't eat it at first and still was a little meh about it when he did have some- I think my boy might be some sort of mutant.

Still we had a good time and the four hour nap he had after was great for everyone.

and so is September

Time is going by so quickly I can barely keep up, we are already a chunk into October and I still don't have a costume idea for me or for Gregor. I have seen last years costume in Parents magazine though, worn by a younger and cuter model :)
but before I get to October a few things happened in September.

Gregor before his first haircut:

Gregor after his first haircut:

He soon got over it & was our happy boy again:

Jason and I took a break to visit with Julie and Bud- its actually a miracle- I hardly ever get to see them when they are in town. A good time was had by all :)

Gregor suffered no harm from having a babysitter- in fact I'm not sure he cared we were gone:

Now heading to October- Peri and Tom were married. Nice quick ceremony- they all should be so short.

Gregor loved that the leaves were on the ground and had a great time playing with them:

We then went to Vegas, this is how excited Gregor was to be there:

He soon made his parents as excited as he was:

But the real happiness was coming home:

Hopefully we will have something interesting to add soon.