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Phoenix Trying to Say Bubble

Phoenix loves his bath time.  Good thing we found this huge basin for him to take baths in.  I went a little overboard on the bubbles…

Photos of our new Apt

Summary: Photos of our new place, a kitchen for little people, a lesson in how to buy produce, a perfect bowl of coffee, Phoenix goes to Broadway, Phoenix gets a mowhawk (see bold for the story you’re interested in). Photos of our new place: So as promised (as I’m sure you’ve been checking back here … Read more

A long few days

We made it! We traveled something like 32 hours and finally made it to our new home! We’re very glad to be here and are glad too that we won’t have to take a long plane flight like that for another three years.  It was pretty bad.  Here’s some highlights of how it went down. … Read more

Kaitlin’s Birthday

Yesterday I woke up to this: Thomas had blown up LOTS of balloons and put them in the kitchen! Phoenix loved them, not so much a friendly baby toy though.  He was shaking with delight.  We also celebrated with warm chocolate chip cookies and chocolate toffee bread.  Phoenix gave me a day late birthday present … Read more

Korean Food

We recently have made friends with three great Koreans here at training. This weekend we were in for a treat when they cooked authentic Korean Barbecue! It was very tasty. There was kimchi, cooked spinach, sticky rice, lettuce wraps, and seaweed wrap (other tasty things too I just don’t know the right names!) We were … Read more

Bubble Beard

I was hoping to get a video of Phoenix saying “bath” but it didn’t happen. I hope that these bubble beard photos will be as good.

Phoenix is 9 months!

Crazy, Phoenix is 9 months today! Some of his new tricks: 1) Stand for about a minute alone! (He doesn’t find this very productive though so there is no motivation) 2) He said his first word (besides Dadda) “Bath”! It was very exciting! He said it on the way to a bath and in the … Read more

At Training

Every time I write a new post I always have to say something like, “We’re not at our house anymore” referring to the latest post. We’ve done A LOT since our last post and have been quite the slackers posting updates. I  guess I’m the least slacker since I’m updating now and Thomas isn’t. Right … Read more

Fun at the Roten House

We’ve had a lot of fun lately as we finished last-minute items at work, packed, and played with Phoenix. Kaitlin only has one photo shoot left! I’ll be done with work this Friday. Then we will spend a week in the mountains. The week we get back, we’ll move out of our apartment. Crazy! So, this … Read more

First beach

Phoenix went to the beach! We visited Mimi and Pa for cousin Donovan’s first birthday. We headed down to the beach and Phoenix loved crawling on this great playground. After an attempt to have Phoenix sleep in our bedroom for a nap we had him sleep in Mimi and Pa’s closet, which worked quite well!