Slowly but surely.......

Thank you Big Head Todd and the Monsters for the song!

Congratulations!

Jess's cousin Jenny and her husband Tom had their baby at 5:27 a.m. Saturday morning, weighing in at 9 lbs. 9 oz and 21.5 inches long. Congratulations to Jenny & Tom, big sister Nora and their new little boy Bennett Norris Fitch!!

Check out their blog (link is in our sites of interest list) for pictures of the newest cutie pie to join the clan!

Digital age

We had a little issue with our external hard drive this week, which is where we store all our pictures so haven't been able to post anything lately! There are downsides to this digital age after all....it is scary thinking we could lose all our pictures due to something like this. We went out and spent some time at Pantip...the computer mecca, Scott Walcker you would go ga-ga over this 5 story mall filled with all things computer! So we got another external hard drive and are working on backing up the back ups! Here are a few things that have been going on in the last week.....


Gretta's front teeth!

Some crazy hair at bath time.

Spent some time at the pool....just chillin'

Our adventure for the weekend (after Pantip) was trying our hand at making potato leek soup, yummy!

Someone REALLY liked it and gobbled it right up!

Stand by Me

SOOOO big!


Watch out world......


I CAN STAND!

Water and Pizza Baby

We'd like to mention that Gretta actually has 4 teeth coming in now. We thought it was just the 2 front teeth but looks like the ones on either side decided they should make their debut as well. Also she has been doing a lot of letting go and standing on her own at least 2-3 times a day now. She started doing it in the pool and even walking towards us, but that resulted in her going under the water! She didn't mind it though and has become a real water baby.


Crawling to the pool.




Josh blowing bubbles






Grandma and Grandpa's last day.


For Jess's parents' last night in Bangkok, we went to Baiyoke Tower, the tallest building in Thailand. It is 1056 ft tall including the antenna.



Steve got this picture of the baby elephant on the street.



We were on the 77th floor where there is an open-air revolving observation deck.


Our monkey child.




Then we watched the sunset over Bangkok from Baiyoke Tower.


After that, it was time for PIZZA!


We found a new Italian restaurant called Basilico and decided we had to try their pizzas, SOOOOO GOOD!




We got a front row seat and Gretta was fascinated watching these guys make the pizzas, as was I, got to take some cool pictures!

11 months old and a trip to the beach

We have visitors! Jess's parents are here for a few more days and we headed down to Krabi last weekend to enjoy the beaches. We stayed on Railay Beach and could only get there by long tail boat. It was hot, but gorgeous and we had lots of fun! We went out on sea kayaks and out on a day trip to the Phi Phi Islands. We also got to just hang out and relax by the pool and on the beach.

Covering her ears, the long tail boat was loud!

Railay Beach on Krabi

The view from our bungalows.

Grandma Peg and Grandpa Steve

Out on a day trip to the Phi Phi Islands.

Thanks for this outfit, from our friend Laura, it kept her cool!

Proving to be like her mom, she did not like the ocean and preferred the pool!

She didn't particularly like the sand, the first time we took her to a beach last summer she seemed to like it, this time she didn't like it at all! Anytime it touched her feet or hands she would fuss.

Had to show off her flip flops from our friend, the captain, Kirk!

Goodbye beaches.....

We celebrated Steve's birthday yesterday with a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant. Peg and Steve are on a day trip to the River Kwai, hopefully having a good time! Peg is getting her elephant ride that she promised she wouldn't leave Thailand without.

Today we are celebrating Gretta's 11th month of life! Wow.

She likes to direct things.....she is the boss after all.

We noticed at the beach her two front teeth are starting to come in! You can barely see because she likes to stick out those bottom ones!

So grown up!

Bread.

Decided we needed to do something entertaining this weekend, so we made bread!

Not just your average bread.......

Potato, sour cream and chive bread!

It turned out delicious!

Too bad this isn't smellablog.


Also delicious.......the plum mango, a new fruit we tried. It is pretty much what the name says....part plum (the skin, size, taste and texture), part mango (the taste, shape and color), all good.

Gretta wanted to share.....

The mini-almost-Heisman

She quickly realized she could eat it and proceeded to do so, all by herself!

As we like to say, yum, yum in the tum, tum.