A Few More Pictures

Found a few more pictures on the camera. Here are a couple from "Thanksgiving" and Ceili's play date with Kaenan Smith. More on shutterfly.

We're back, baby!

Wow, It sure has been busy lately. Kind of lost track of time over Christmas. It was very easy to do because of all the friends and family stopping by. Don't worry, we were able to capture much of it with our camera and you can check out the pictures by clicking the shutterfly link to the left. Jon had much of December off of work and we all traveled to Erin's Uncle Loren's home in Iowa for almost two weeks to hunt and hang out. As always, it was good to see him as well as cousins Austin, Tyler, Ryan, Maddie, and Sam.

After returning from Iowa we settled back in to the house and got into the swing of Christmas. Ceili helped Jon Set up the Christmas tree and helped Erin decorate it. Uncle Josh and Grandma Otis came to stay with us before Christmas and stayed through the following weekend when we were all joined by Grandma and Grandpa Burgers and Uncle Nick and Auntie Kim. We had a great family meal and relaxing weekend.

Ceili was visited by her friend Lucy who also brought her parents Mike and Abby. They stayed for a weekend and it was great to catch up. Erin and Abby were able to sneak away while Jon and Mike hung out with the girls. Despite getting hit with a snowstorm everyone had a great time.

Jon went back to work on New Year's Eve and we stayed pretty close to home until we went down to Kasota to celebrate Thanksgiving with Jamie and Debbie. We had to postpone it earlier because of a scheduling conflict. Unfortunately Lucy, Abby, and Mike were unable to make it, due to a sudden illness. Yuck! Jamie and Debbie were great and we had a good time visiting, eating Debbie's famous turkey, and trying to play Wii.

We are now getting settled into a regular routine and Ceili is exploring new foods. She LOVES beets, as we discovered today. She has also enjoyed spinach, sweet potato, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, squash, peas, peaches, bananas, apples, and pineapple. She has also started eating a lot more of it. She enjoys fruit in the morning along with rice or oat cereal. Then for lunch and dinner she has veggies and cereal. She has not yet had anything that she has not enjoyed. She and Jon spend a day every couple of weeks making her food for the upcoming weeks and she enjoys watching him cut and cook everything. Erin comes up with a list of new foods and we go as a family to buy what we need. After the food is prepared it is frozen in ice cube trays and stored in ziploc bags. She is also now able to eat Cheerios. She loves to sit in her chair and rake the Cheerios into her lap. Sometimes she even gets them in her mouth. When she does, she really likes them.

Ceili is now six months old! She is getting huge and is working on crawling and is standing on her own if she can support herself on something. She is sleeping on her own at night and is doing well most nights.

This past weekend we had brunch with Smiths and Consies so Ceili got to play with Kaenan Smith and Sophia Consie.