Three months!

Gibson isn't so new anymore, he's a big boy weighing in a little over 13 lbs. Happy three monther little man. We love you so!

Santa Baby

Hat and booties compliments of Aunt Tricia. Gibson did really well on Santa's lap this year. Santa warned us not to expect the same reaction next year. He was a really good Santa. I think maybe he was the real one.

Family

We spend every Thanksgiving with our Aunt Lou and Uncle Dick and our wonderful cousins. As to be expected, everyone was waiting for Gibson to arrive as eagerly as we all wait for Aunt Lou's turkey every year. Yes I just compared my son to a turkey, but I mean it in a delicious loving sort of way.

Aunt Lou and Gibson

Timmy and the boy bonding

Emily and Caroline - Gibson loved all the attention from all the pretty ladies!

Catherine patiently waited her turn to get her hands on him.

The day after Thanksgiving Aunt Judy and cousin Moniek arrived for a visit. As always the time flew by and I can' t thank them enough for the naps they let me take and all their help with Gibson.


This picture is Daddy showing the boy the first snow fall of the year. The flakes were the size of pancakes, so after watching it fall for a while, we ate some pancakes.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have so much to be thankful for this year. Happy Thanksgiving Family and Friends. We love you all!

Happy Birthday Papa and Aunt Tricia!

Our internet has been less than useful as of late, sorry for the late post.

Happy Birthday Dad and Trish. We love you!

We had a visit from Aunt Tricia two weekends ago. We all wish she could have stayed longer!

They are both so happy to have their arms around each other.

In other news, Gibson weighed in at 11 lbs 9 oz last Tuesday, and he is 21.75 inches long. We love every drooly bit about him.

Bath time

Bath time used to be Gibson's least favorite time, but as the days go by he is finally starting to enjoy himself. Or just not scream the entire time.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is Chris' favorite holiday and I suspect that in the coming years it will be Gibson's as well.

Autumn Fun

We go out exploring with the boy whenever its nice out.
The first few pictures are of us at Hacklebarney State Park. Thanks to the suggestion of Bill Gerber, we stopped at the Cider Mill first and enjoyed hotdogs, ciderkraut and baked beans cooked in apple cider, and of course, apple cider before going for a walk thru the park. This is also the first time we used the baby bjorn. As usual, Gibson slept through most of the experience but we like to think he had fun.



Below are some pictures of our day with the Cotterills at Terhune Orchards. Best cider donuts....mmmm.
Corn maze fun.
Cali and Poppa Cotts

Gibson Rocks - part two

Daddy already has Gibson learning guitar.


He makes the same faces as Daddy does!

Updates at last!

After having lots of trouble downloading pictures to our computer, we finally found a way. We've had a very busy few weeks. The best part so far was the visits with family. Papa Shone and Grandma June came down for a few days and we loved every minute of it. We even got to go visit Aunt Lou and Uncle Dick, so much fun. Thanks Pop and June, for coming to visit and for all you did for us while you were here. Coming back anytime soon?

Meeting Papa for the first time. Gibson spent many hours sleeping on Papa's shoulder over the next few days.

Another new favorite place to hang out, Grandma June's arms! Gibson would like to apologize to Grandma about the rather loud walk around the block, he was just a little cranky that day.

Auntie and Unc. Gibson is really looking forward to Thanksgiving to meet the cousins!


Two of his favorite ladies.

Saying Goodbye. This is before the tears...there are always tears with goodbyes.

Gibson ROCKS!

My co-workers at Guitar Center got together and bought the boy a welcome-to-the-world gift (project spearheaded by Hosie...)
He may never know how cool he is...

Look boy, nature!

Poor slow plastic children...

So we've been taking Gibson pretty much everywhere we can think of. Perhaps he will have vague and fond memories of trudging through pumpkin patches and corn mazes with his pal Cali. He may retain distant images of rocks and waterfalls and apple orchards and cider and Daddy sprinting to the state park restroom after ciderdogs with ciderkraut, cider baked beans, and well, plain cider. I'm sure it was humorous to someone else.

So far so good

Gibson has been such a good boy. We wouldn't mind a few more hours sleep but we are working on a schedule so we each get a few consecutive hours each night. Gibson was born weighing 5 lbs 12 oz. When we brought him home he weighed only 5.5, but by his first visit to the doctor he was up to 5.8, then 5.14 and as of one week ago he was 6.5. He already looks so different than when he born. Here are a few random pictures of our boy.

Gibson at his first beer garden with Pop on 9/29/07.

First introduction to "nature." Pop needed that burp cloth.

Sleep is their favorite activity.

Aeeehhh -thats how he gets our attention.

His first walk around Milltown.

His first backyard picnic.

Outside makes him sleepy.

My most recent favorite photo.

Uncle Jimmie.

Bonding with Uncle John.

Uncle Fid, he didn't break him or anything.

Let's Go Yankees!

Of course its a Jeter shirt.

Gibson baby I love you, you're the best. (thats for Auntie Kathy)

My boys

My lil' sweet pea


Sleepy boys


He loves his pop


I'm the luckiest girl in the world.


Can't forget the other boy in my life. Mingus is getting used to Gibson.