Snow Baby

The Art Champions!

And the first-place winner is...ARCHIE!
We are so proud of Archie for winning first place in the primary division of the Johns Hopkins APL Young Artists show for his painting entitled "Normal World." The announcer told him that if this picture shows his normal world, he must be a very happy little boy. Archie worked hard on his picture for several weeks, and we are so happy his efforts paid off. A special thanks to Memaw for teaching him to draw such wonderful people.

We are also proud of Grace for claiming an honorable mention in the K-1 division with her noodle art titled "Some Wheel Over the Rainbow." She also worked hard dipping each individual pasta piece into paint and gluing it. They said they had seen many rainbows, but this is the first noodle rainbow they had ever seen!

Happy Seventh and Eighth Months, Grant!

Growing, growing, growing. At his nine-month weigh in Grant tipped the scales at a dainty 23lb 10oz, which actually sent him plummeting into the 95th percentile for height. He remains off the charts in length at 31 inches. He just started crawling and has gotten surprisingly good at it. He reminds me of a Tennessee Walking Horse the way he picks his arms up really high and flings them out. He has two toothies (all the better to eat you with). Seriously, he will eat pretty much anything, and we've had to do double time keeping under our sofa clean because he totally digs whatever week -old piece of food he can find under there...Everywhere we go people tell him what a good, laid back boy he is and we totally agree. We also love his teenage sleeping schedule of 10 p.m. - 10 a.m. (or later) with a solid three hour afternoon siesta. Can't wait to see how you change this month, Grant, and if you find any use for your feet! (I promise they do come in handy!)

Brilliant Baby

The Sporty Siblings

Grant's Funniest Home Videos: Christmas Edition

We celebrated Christmas early with my parents since this is our year to spend Christmas at Hunt's. Grant loved opening his first Christmas present ever. He was a little distracted by his favorite giraffe, though.

This dancing tree has been in the family since Hunt was a boy. Grant is doing his best to jam with it. I think it could make America's Funniest Home Videos!

Merry Christmas to all!!! Jesus is the Reason for the Season!

Brilliance in Flight

Hats off to my brilliant hubby who finally got his quadcopter flying. Little did Hunt know when he signed up for a personal enrichment master's level course in August that every waking non-work moment (weekends, evenings, even Thanksgiving break) would be devoted to getting his little baby in the air. Tomorrow night is the final class and the school is sending a camera crew to film the flights. I told him this project was kind of like having a baby. Months of suffering (for both of us) but it was worth it all when the little darling took off. I would even be up for him building another one with Archie (BUT NO MORE FORMAL COURSES WITH DEADLINES EVER)!

 

P.S. I designed the Styrofoam shoes the copter is wearing. We knew it would crash before it flew, and it would break without a cushion. It saved us several times tonight. Not often I come up with an engineering innovation, but I'll give my self credit where credit is due ;)