Thanksgiving and Christmas

Colin had a great holiday season - starting with a traditiona Thanksgiving at Nonie and Grandad's. He spent Christmas in Michigan with the Zobl clan and got his first real encounter with snow. He also left Philly a crawler and returned a walker! Very exciting, now we're starting to understand the saying "be careful what you wish for."

Happy New Year Everyone!

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Thanksgiving and Christmas - 2008

2008 World Series Champs!!!

Although this blog is techinically dedicated to Colin, we feel that he was our good luck charm for taking us to the World Series title. Here are a few exciting photos from the celebratory parade.

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2008 Phillies Parade

Mr. October

We had a busy time over the last couple of months.....Colin turned 1, we celebrated Nana's 90th birthday, he had his second Halloween, there was lots of political drama, and there was some kind of sports thing going on too (see next blog post for details).


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Colin Sep-Oct 08

Colin's First Birthday

Wow - can't believe a year has gone by already. It seems like only yesterday we were bringing Colin home from the hospital to our disheveled home. Now he's a year old and the house is done (mostly). We had a great birthday party on Saturday, Gran and Slim and Aunt Erin, Uncle Jon, and Cousin Thea made the trip to celebrate with us. The Thomas the Tank Engine cake and cupcakes were a big hit, but the bouncing Zebra was not, at least not with Colin, but Thea enjoyed it.

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Colin's First Birthday Party

Trip to Michigan

I know I'm a little behind on these posts. In August, Colin took his first plane ride to Detroit. He was very well behaved and pretty much slept through the flight.
We had a great time with Gran and Slim, Aunt Betsy, Uncle Jim and Aunt Nancy, Cousins Erik and Alec, and Hamlet the Dog. We celebrated Aunt Marilyn's 70th birthday party and met the Zawacki cousins for the first time. Mom and Dad even got to go see a movie for the first time in a while.

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Michigan Trip - August '08

Summer of Firsts

I know it's been a while since I added a new post and pics, sorry about that. Colin's first summer isn't over yet, but it's been a very adventurous one so far. This new web album documents a series of firsts for Colin, including crawling for the first time, his first H2L2 softball game, his first time at the beach, first time in a swimming pool, and of course his first Phillies game (marked by a 6-3 win over the D-Backs). It was also the first time mom and dad left town without him, leaving him with Nonie and Grandad for five whole days. He and the grandparents survived and so did we.

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Colin's First Summer

New York Baby

Colin's second trip to New York started out with a lot of stress caused by a deadly combination of New Jersey drivers and liquid poo. He had his first non-family babysitter, who was very good and understanding considering the circumstances.

He met some new friends, including Marni, Doug, Shoshanna and Orly Sugerman and Cynthia Grilli. He had his first ride on a slide and a real swing and hung out all day in Central Park. We spent a very special first Mother's Day with just the three of us hanging out in the apartment and watching Indiana Jones movies.

New York Baby