This week Henry reached his first big milestone, his 1 month birthday. He is doing great and can now sleep for about a 6 hour stretch at night (sometimes). The biggest difference we’ve noticed as he gets older is that he is awake a lot more during the day and really makes eye contact with [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 19, 2009
Happy Birthday Kurt
Everyone told us that once you have a kid that your own birthdays become much less important. I didn’t want to believe it but it seems to be true. Yesterday Kurt turned 32 and instead of going out and celebrating with our friends by drinking too much, we stayed in and had a quiet evening [...]
August 19, 2009
Beal’s Meals Update
We haven’t been updating Beal’s Meals very often over the past few months mainly because it had been tough for us to get out while planning for a new baby and with me being extremely pregnant. Well the past couple weeks we have been able to get back out on the town and try some [...]
August 16, 2009
Aunt Beth & Aunt Kara visit
This past weekend our friends Beth & TJ Cohen and Kara Dabe came into town from Chicago. They were here for a friend’s wedding and made time to come meet Henry. They were both naturals holding him and Henry even woke up for a little while to stare at them. He also says Thank You [...]
August 16, 2009
Phone Pranks
I love a good phone prank. I think my college roommate Kelly is the best and I miss coming home late night and listening to “Father Murphy” or one of her other characters call and harass people. I think the people getting pranked liked hearing from her just as much as we did because she [...]
August 10, 2009
NFL Hall of Fame Induction
This weekend we took Henry to his first big sporting event. We headed down to Canton, Ohio to see the Enshrinement Ceremony for NFL Hall of Fame. We went to see one of the best Chief’s players ever, Derrick Thomas, get inducted in. Thomas had a great career with the Kansas City Chiefs but died [...]
August 7, 2009
Newborn pictures
Yesterday we had a newborn photographer, Kristen Caldwell, come to our home and take pictures of Baby Henry. She did a fabulous job and we are thrilled with how everything turned out. Henry was a great little model and not surprisingly slept almost the whole time (although he did accidentally projectile poop on the nice [...]
August 7, 2009
Fun at the Doublewide
We took Baby Henry on his first out of town adventure and headed up to the Beal’s Doublewide. Joining us there were Grandpa Beal from San Antonio, Grandma Beal, Aunt Lindsey from Denver, and Aunt Katy, Uncle JP & Cousin Asher from Chicago. Everyone had a really nice weekend eating lots of yummy food and [...]
