Henry Tennyson: November 2009

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Henry's First Steps!

We were told that if Henry wasn't walking by 15 months that we would need to let his pediatrician know. With the deadline just three weeks away, we have been encouraging Henry to venture out of his comfort zone and take his first steps without assistance. He is a great pupil and with much praise received, he has started to break free of our grip and walk on his own. Now it's only a few steps on his own, but we think he'll be running around by Christmas. Watch out - this kid is going to be a handful!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Happy Halloween!

Henry dressed up as a puppy for Halloween. We joined our friends Ben, Amanda and Victoria at Bellevue Square Mall to go trick or treating. It was the craziest experience trying to navigate through the crowds - I think every one in Bellevue decided the mall was the place to be! Not sure we'll be going back there next year...

We then went to Grandpa Patches and Nana's neighborhood to go door-to-door visiting the neighborhood friends. Aunt Amy was there too helping pass out candy at the front door.

Cutest puppy ever!

At the mall with Victoria the bunny.

Grandpa Patches with the two puppies - Henry and Chico!

Playing with a backhoe.

We thought it would be funny to dress Henry up in Thor's batman costume. So here he is at my office dressed up as a puppy that's dressed up as batman for Halloween!

Crabfest for Mommy's Birthday

For mommy's birthday we celebrated by taking a ferry ride to Port Angeles and renting a cabin on Lake Sutherland for the weekend. Our friends Scott & Mary joined us as they had planed to go to Crabfest in Port Angeles the same weekend. Sounded like an adventure, so we went along with them too. We spent the day eating crab in the crab tent and walking around the pier. In the evening we ate chocolate mousse cake (thanks Mary!) and ice cream. It was a fantastic birthday!

Blowing out the candle.

Yummy chocolate mousse cake from the french bakery!

Lake Sutherland from the cabin.

The BIG tent where all the delicious crab was eaten. Hanging from the tent were papermaches of various sea creatures - crab, jelly fish, salmon, clams. Henry LOVED staring at the all the things danglind from the ceiling.

This is one cool kid.

Henry with the birthday girl!

Henry showing Mary that he can clap his hands.

We ate breakfast at Granny's, a roadside cafe with delicious food and some farm animals behind the cafe.

Stormy holding Henry and showing him the animals.

Dwarf goats

This kid is too adorable!

Look at How I've Grown!

Each month we took a picture of Henry with his patchwork puppy. It's amazing to see his transformation over this past year. People say kids grow so fast - and it's only now after experiencing it for ourselves that we truly understand what that means. Here's Henry's line up over the last twelve months.