Best Present

Austin had a good Christmas Morning. Santa was good to him and he seemed to understand the excitement, he didn't want to go to sleep on Christmas Eve, he wanted to play. We were just as excited as he was for his first Christmas! He got some new shoes... for when he actually starts wearing them. Lots of clothes from Santa and both sets of grandparents and some new toys and books too! Mommy and Daddy loved having a sweet lil baby to share Christmas with. It is much more fun this way!

The perfect shirt for Austin he was our favorite thing about Christmas!

First pic on Christmas Morning (we both look a little tired still)

Yay! special Burt's bee's baby bath kit

Auntie Val got Austin all of his Red Sox gear.

And board shorts so he can go swimming when we get home!

Christmas Eve

We had a very good dinner and we got all dressed up and then read the Christmas story after and had fun with all the cousins! Breitton loves her new cousin Austin and loves to give him kisses! Austin seemed to understand and sense that it was a Special time and he was excited for Santa to come that he couldn't sleep very well, but then he crashed!

Christmas Activities

Christmas Sunday in his new suit... Thanks Grandma Coates!


At Storybook Land on the Carousel with Mommy. I loved it, can you tell by my smile?



We went to New York for the day and saw the Rocketts Christmas Spectacular and then went to Rockefeller Center and saw the Christmas Tree! It was cold but a fun day!

4 monthsold and learning lots of new things!

Austin had his 4 month check up. He is still very healthy and is growing and developing very well. He is 13lb. 12 oz which is in the 45% and his length was 24" which is 25% so he still seems to be on the shorter side :) He is really starting to giggle and laugh a lot and it is really fun to hear him laugh we will have to get a video of that. He has also found his voice and has learned that when he's in New Jersey he has to talk really loud to be heard over all the rest of the people here! He has mastered rolling over from stomach to back and is starting to roll from his back to his side... not quite to his stomach yet, but any day he will do that. He is a coordinated little guy too - getting good at reaching for and holding onto things! He seems to like dancing he laughed all day watching his Mommy and Auntie's play dance dance revolution either that or he was just laughing at us!!! he went to his first movie yesterday (Yogi Bear) and he got his wish from Santa and is now eating rice cereal!

And he had his first Christmas . . . see the next post for more about that!

Meeting Santa

I told Santa that I would like to eat rice cereal... yay soon to be a little eater!



Daddy and Mommy sat by Santa too and asked him to make me stop growing up so fast :)
WHAT DID YOU ASK SANTA FOR CHRISTMAS?

Dressed up for Church!

Austin SMILES

We have been trying to catch a picture of Austin Smiling for quite some time now, but he is very curious about the camera and we end up with a deer in headlights look instead. I finally caught a couple with some distractions we make it work. He has starting sitting in his Bumbo seat and is doing really well and likes it for a little while. It's good for his core muscles and his neck muscles. He's getting strong!Next to get a good video of him talking and laughing!

Dirtbiking trip

Over Thanksgiving break we went up camping and dirtbiking to keep up the tradition we started last year. I love the Texas weather that allows us to still go play outside! We went about and hour from our home up to a friends home who has 80acres to camp and ride dirtbikes. The boys LOVE it! I was fun taking Austin there for his first time. He went for rides with Mommy on Kirk and Ashley's 4 wheeler and Daddy was able to take him for rides on his little 110. He smiled and seemed to have a good time. He even wore his motorcycle outfit. We had really good dutch over chicken and peach cobbler afterwards! The boys camped over night but Austin, Ben, Ashley and I went home to sleep in our warm beds... good thing too cause it rained on the boys that night. Austin had a mini camping experience taking a nap in the tent!

Playing hard in my Ocean!

Austin loves playing in his Ocean. He is getting really good at swatting at the toys and as now started to grab onto them. He kicks his legs and when he hits the little toys on the side it plays music and lights up. He was playing so hard this day it wore him out and he crashed!

Finally finished Austin's Room - he is all ready to be a little surfing beach bum now!!

A few More Halloween Pictures

Here are a few more pictures of Halloween. We had a really fun party with some friends. Devin and I went as the biggest looser and Devin was the before and I was after it was pretty funny. We also had a good time trick or treating with Austin. He was a really cute pumpkin. We missed one of the really cute pictures from our trip to the pumpkin patch.
Austin is smiling more and more all the time and starting to laugh a little. The other night while Devin was saying out family prayers I was holding Austin and felt him start shaking so I looked to see and he was laughing it was so cute! I am trying to get pictures of him smiling but he still gets a serious look when the camera is around him. He sure is still a kicker... you should see how he kicks when I am changing his diaper (that's when he kicks the most!) It makes me laugh a lot. He seems to be going through a growth spurt right now... he is sleeping a lot.

Austin is getting big

I don't have any pictures to go with this post yet... hopefully he will get used to the camera and not be so camera shy :)
Austin is getting big at our last Dr. apt he weighed 11 lbs 9 oz and is 23" long. He got his vaccinations and he did really well he was a brave little boy! He only cried for a min and then he was fine... one of the vaccinations was a live one combined in sugar water and he LOVED it,when the Dr. took it away from him he kept trying to get more... looks like we have a little sweet tooth on our hands!
He is really starting to smile and coo and even a little laugh, but every time I get the camera out to take pictures or a video he gets a real serious look on his face and he stops smiling.

Pumpkin Patch

Cute little Austin looking like a preppy lil stud in his little sweater. He's getting big and strong and was able to sit up really well by these pumpkins.



A Pretty little picture with Mommy!


What a perfect looking little family



Daddy and lil Austin are playing in the hay.



Another cute family shot.

We had such a fun time at the pumpkin patch going on hay rides and jumping into the hay... Daddy of course did his famous back flip off the top. Devin and Austin took some time and played in the bounce house. Austin loved it!

We had 4 days of Halloween here in Texas.

We first went to Devin's work Party "The BOO BASH" it was lots of fun where mommy even entered the pumpkin carving contest and won the most creative pumpkin. We had a fun time meeting all the people that daddy works with.

Our Next Halloween adventure was the trunk or treat. It was at bluebonnet elementary school just around the corner from us. We invited our Neighbors Tim, Christine and Tessa to come along. We had a good time and Austin was so cute in his pumpkin costume.

After that we went trick or treating and went on a fun hayride. We had so much fun trick or treating with the Rasmussen's and the Manions! Austin was all smiles that day and then fell asleep on the hayride. We then ran over and went trick or treating with the Derrs, Slaways and the Mitchells. We love watching all the kids in their costumes and loving how much candy they get. Happy Halloween.

More pictures to come of the Rasmussen's Halloween Party!!