Let's play catch-up!

Sorry, I haven't posted in like two weeks. Judah's has been doing some new fun things, and we're in the middle of my grandparents visiting us!

Judah has started "counting". It mainly consists of "Two, five, six, seven". Here's a video of his efforts:


We also took Judah to his first Texas high school football game on Friday night. He wasn't very interested in the game, but when half time came he was mesmerized by the marching band.





Then Saturday we met my grandparents in Austin. We visited the Zilker park botanical gardens.






And the Texas capital building.

Getaway to Fredericksburg

This past weekend Adam and I went on a getaway to Fredericksburg, TX. The town was one of a projected series of German settlements from the Texas coast to the land north of the Llano River, originally the ultimate destination of the German immigrants sent to Texas by the Adelsverein, which is the society for the protection of German Immigrants in Texas (http://www.fbgtx.org/other/history.htm). Therefore, we got to experience some wonderful German food (which I ironically never tried when we were in Germany), experience a little German charm, and hear some German accents! The town is very quaint with loads of shopping. We also traveled to a little place called Luckenbach, TX. There's not much too Luckenbach except a post office, bar, and their specialty: live music. It was an experience, but very fun. We had a great time and owe much thanks to our friends who watched Judah for us. We are so thankful to you all!

Spaghetti Dinner

Well, I've been afraid to start the whole Judah feeding himself thing for a while now. I'm just not looking forward to the mess. However, I know I need to give in. I think it will help his eating habits and not to mention be nice that I don't have to feed him! So the other night we had spaghetti for dinner and we let Judah dig in. It was messy to say the least and I think he managed to get about a teaspoon full in his stomach. Most of his feeding himself consisted of him putting spaghetti on the spoon. He also didn't like the ground beef in the sauce so every time he got a little bit in his mouth that was swiftly spit out (we're working on "no spitting" too, oh geez!) All in all, Judah had lots of fun. But it did take me a LONG time to clean up this mess. At least most dinners he feeds himself in the future won't be as messy as spaghetti!

Zoo Trip!

On Saturday we went to the Abilene Zoo. Judah's last trip to the zoo was almost a year ago and he really wasn't able to pay attention to the animals. This time was different! He was a little scared looking by the snakes, thought the peacock was funny, and kept calling the giraffe a "Horsey!". The most exciting part is we decided to visit the zoo on Vulture Awareness day, unawares to us! We got to learn about how vital vultures are to our world (without the there would be dead animals everywhere!) and we got to watch the vultures (not buzzards) eat a hog head. Yummy :). Overall we had an exciting trip. Here's a few pictures of us and our friends who came along!