Cheese Days parade 2010!

This past weekend was my birthday, wedding anniversary, and cheese days all together!  That's a lot of celebrating, so I made sure to do just that :)
Of course, again I forgot my camera so the only shots I have are from the parade on Sunday from Trisha's camera on her phone.  Nate was awesome at the parade.  It was cold and rainy but he loved every minute of it...minus the giant swiss bus laaaaaying on the obnoxious horn.  He didn't mind the bands one bit and even took a half hour cat nap!
Nate and Aunt Trisha....oh, and Susie Dahmen being a weirdo in the back :)  Kidding, kidding, I love you Aunt Sue!  Nate should enter a baby smiling contest in her opinion! 

Happy baby..., happy cold family

He seriously smiled and laughed the whole time, it was pretty cute.  He must have realized his roots and was thrilled to be there with all the craziness of cows, cheese, beer, and mullets!  Here's some parade shots for all you Minnesotans who couldn't make it this year!

Nate's Great-Grandpa John rode the cheesemakers float again this year but joined us afterwards to watch the rest of the parade.

The weekend was a blast but it went by way too fast!  Can't wait for Cheese Days 2012 :)

Giggles

 Just a cute quick video of Nate's crazy scream/giggle during the tickle game! 

Nate is excited for his first Cheesedays this weekend!  We are making the trip down to Wisconsin tomorrow...fun way to spend moms birthday :)

Root, root, root, for the.....who?

With football season upon us, Nate has had a week filled with trying on all of his sports gear that now fits!  He's just confused as to who he likes the most.  That's alright, he can cheer for everybody.
Here's Nate in his Badger gear getup which was a gift.  He looks like a little bball player for the Badgers starting line up.  Enjoy it Jimbo :) 

Here's a view of his nice kicks.

 Go gophers...

 Every month on the 10th we mark Nate's height on the wall...This was his 7 month mark in September.

Nate now does what we like to call the bootie shuffle.  It's his attempt at crawling.  He raises his butt in the air, kicks his feet around on the ground and shuffles across the floor.  It's not really a crawl, more of a floppy dead fish kick :)  He was doing it right before I started this video, but as soon as he sees the camera he stops everything to smile and pay attention to it! 

NFL time baby.....

Oh choices to be made in the world!

End of summer fun...

Well, we've had a few busy weekends lately but they've been a blast.  This picture makes me laugh because it's the one shot we tried to get of Nate at the state fair.  I wanted to leave but Joe had to see the giant pig...which weighed 1,450 pounds by the way, but Nate was not feeling it when we got there.  He had done great for 4 or 5 hours but he was ready to go.  He had just pinched our friends daughter Jacqueline...not on purpose...but I told him no, and then a complete meltdown happened and this is the shot we have!  I don't know why we didn't think to bring out the camera before that.

We ate lots of good food that's bad for you so that was fun. 
Nate's big enough to fit in some of his cammo gear so Joe is ecstatic.

Our friend Mary just had her baby Finn in August so they came up to pay a visit.
Here's Nate in his chair and Finn relaxing on the floor.

Nate's getting a closer look at Finn

Nate wants to wrestle and roll on top of Finn.

Nate is starting to get shocked and upset he is not the only baby in the world to be paid attention to.

Nate has just realized that Finn is wearing some of his clothes and he has not yet learned to share nicely.

I'm sure soon enough Nate and Finn will become fast friends!  Nate just needs to learn how to share and get along :)
I just think this double eyebrow raise shot is funny.  I like to be out and about doing things but it's weird when people stop you to look at your baby.  Sometimes I'm really not in the mood, especially with the overly touchy folks.  There are worse things in the world though aren't there?  Most people say he looks a lot like Joe but it's always followed with he has my eyes.  It's weird that there is such a consensus out there with the strangers of the world!

Nate has moved on to trying peas and apples.  I'd say of all his foods so far he is the biggest fan of apples and sweet potatoes.

Trisha's cat Henry was more intrigued by the peas than Nate was!
Over the Labor Day weekend, Joe, Nate, Trisha, Andrew and I went to Stillwater.  It's only about half an hour from our house and is on the river and is just a really pretty town.  We went to a wine tasting, walked along the river, and ate dinner along the river.  It was a blast!  Andrew was concerned about having a baby at a winery but there was another couple there with their son so we didn't feel too bad!

This is the lift bridge in Stillwater

Here's a gondola ride.

More shots by the river...

It was a great long weekend, now we're back to the grind!