The Grills: January 2012

When we got home from Colorado I was in a hurry to get our Christmas decorations up since we would only get to enjoy them for a couple weeks before we went home to Billings. Niko enjoyed helping…I’ve decided it’s easier to let him get into things while I accomplish a task and then pick up after him.

On Christmas Eve we had an early dinner with Nathan’s parents. Carmella got Niko a really cute Snowman sippy cup….he didn’t eat much and swung his cup around. It was kind of cute, but really really messy.

He did drink some too After dinner Niko was very spoiled with toys, but he really wanted to grab all of their Christmas decorations.

He really likes the songs and noises this truck makes…he doesn’t quite like to sit on it yet. Benzi was on Carmella’s lap the whole time…he’s supposed to be the baby!

Then we had dinner at my gramma’s house. He loved the fruit, but he only loved playing with the blackberries Smile

I was eating cereal on Christmas morning and Niko was grabbing my spoon, so daddy got him a baby spoon and he started eating my cereal like a (messy) pro!

We finally remembered to get a picture of Niko’s teeth, he had fangs like his mommy Smile

And he was spoiled again….

Kaitie made cinnamon rolls and Niko thoroughly enjoyed them, he probably ate more than a whole one!

He loved the candy canes in his reach!
Then we all watched Niko play with some bubble wrap…he’s great entertainment!

So Niko is spoiled and entertaining and busy! But super cute too, which is why I can blog mostly pictures.

I'm playing catch up again! So there will be a brief overview of what has happened in the past few months!Nathan and I went back to Billings over a long weekend away from school and my wonderful mother and grandmother helped me make Halloween costumes for my family, they were fairly simply and I think we did them all basically in a day.
On Halloween Kaitie and Adam came over to go trick or treating with us (I mean with Niko). We took some pictures and just went down our little dead end street. Everyone gave Niko handfuls of candy because they thought it was silly we didn't all have a bag for candy :) We were the rubble family and they happened to be dinosaurs which went together nicely! And was completely unplanned.

Niko really knew how to use his club...it was so cute!

Niko had his first haircut at about ten and a half months old. We were planning family
pictures over Thanksgiving and his hair was
getting so long. He did really well and hardly even squirmed.

Before:

Before

During

After :)

We spent Thanksgiving in Colorado with my Aunt Bobbi and Uncle Dave (they had a surprise when we got there....that they had been to the courthouse to get married!). Anyway, my cousin Ashley was able to come home from the hospital the previous week and her brother Austin was giving his talk before leaving for his mission that Sunday. So...it was an eventful time. My brother was going to come too, but couldn't get work off...so we have a family picture minus my brother :(

Grampa working his magic with the baby
(Niko had a rough time since he couldn't nap
through all the noise).

Aiden

While we were baking I asked Nathan to entertain the children by taking them in the back yard and do fun things for the camera...some of them turned out really well.