William is 9 months old!
He had his check up with Dr. El today and he is 19.5 lbs and 28 1/4 inches. He is such a wonderful boy, Adam and I are loving watching him grow. He loves singing songs with his mom and dad, his favorite, by far, is Itsie Bitsie Spider , but we recently have been exposed to a new song that might become a new favorite called I Like Elephants! For the few of you who were present when the song was discovered; I know you will appreciate it being a freqent in our household! :) For those of you not familiar with this wonderful childrens tune please you-tube it, I know you'll love it too. We found it while on a long car ride with Grandma and Grandpa Gonnsen where Diane and I were trying everything during the last "20 minutes" of the car ride to entertain William. I was looking up childrens songs on you-tube to play for him and we came across this "winner". Of course, William was totally into it, to the dismay of everyone else in the car. It turned out to be quite the entertaining experience.
William has become quite mobile! He love practicing walking while holding on to someones hands, and he is pulling himself up on everything and walking around, sometimes with only one hand on! Adam and I are chasing him around these days, he's getting quick! We are enjoying some great weather here in the Northwest and we all love being outside, William gets to go on a lot of walks. He really enjoys visiting with our sweet neighbors, Connie and Dave and their dog Graham, even though he is occassionally assaulted with "kisses" from Graham and Rose while he is crawling around on the grass. William has also been enjoying lots of new finger foods, blueberries and cheese are some favorites right now (his Wisconsin roots coming through!)
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| Great Grandpa Louis Maday meeting great-grandchild #30! |
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| The meeting of four generations on his Dad's side: Adam, William, Grandma G (Dianne), and his Great Grandpa Maday |
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| Yep, that's right...We had a baby in a bar! |
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| "Pullin' tabs" with Grandpa Bill |
William has been the traveling baby lately. We all just got back from Minnesota where he got to meet his other Great Grandpa and Grandma, and the rest of the Gonnsen and Maday gang! He loved looking out the window during landing on each plane ride (just this trip it was four plane rides with the one-stop both coming and going.) We had a great time in Minnesota. We stayed at Adam's Grandpa's farm for the first few days in southern Minnesota. His Aunt Mary and Uncle Denis threw a big family barbeque one night, it was so much fun to see everyone. Everyone thought that William looked just like his daddy! There was a huge group of little girls there and only two little boys! William had so much fun meeting so many of his Great Aunts and Uncles, and his (second??) cousins. Adam and I enjoyed having so many people around who wanted to hold William for a while :) The next day Grandma Dianne introduced me to "pullin' tabs" and the favorite local pub, which is basically a quick way to lose some money, but it was fun! William even got to pull a few tabs, but he didn't win anything, so much for beginners luck!
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| Uptown Minneapolis |
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| This is a statue representing Peace at the Civil Justice building in Minneapolis, note Bill in the bottom left corner for an idea of just how huge this marble statue was. Impressive! It was three stories tall! |
After visiting the farm we went north to the Twin Cities and had dinner at Adam's Aunt Brenda's house, then spent a few days visiting Adam's sisters and our nephew Owen. William, Adam and Owen got to swim together one night. William didn't know what to think about the big pool! We all spent a day at the Mall of America, where William had a blast watching all the busy commotion. Then a day in Uptown Minneapolis and St. Paul. Unfortunately William started coming down with something during the last day and was not a very happy guy, but overall we had a great time visiting with everyone. It seems to go by in a flash when you are on vacation, but luckily we will be seeing all the Grandma and Grandpa's soon for Williams first birthday! Thank you Bill and Dianne for showing us a great time in the Mid West! We miss you guys!
The weekend before we went to Minnesota we drove down to Bend, Oregon for a night to visit with our good family friends, Clem and Robin, while my parents were there to visit them. We always have a great time seeing them! My mom and I even found matching hat's to get in the sunny weather!
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| William enjoying being tickled by Grandpa! |
