Benziger babes

Our little man is 10 months old now and he's mobile! I can't believe he only started crawling a few short weeks ago as he is now cruising around the apartment and pulling himself up on everything he can reach. He loves following his Daddy around the apartment and he's also started using his baby walker and is getting quite good. He loves to pull himself up on the baby gate and watch his Daddy cooking in the kitchen. He's eating anything he can get his hands on and he knows how to shovel it in. He has been having a hard time falling asleep because he loves playing with us after work but he sleeps 12 hours every night so we can't complain. Here are some clips from the past month. Enjoy!

Theo showing off his two bottom teeth! Vancouver Grandma and Grandpa Benziger were in town last week and we had a great time! First we went to the Chihuly Garden and Museum by the Seattle Space Needle where we saw some very colorful works by the famous glass blower, Dale Chihuly. We also visited the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation visitor center. Over the weekend we headed up to Vancouver. On the way we stopped by the Tulip Festival in Skagit Valley. The tulips were in full bloom and just as beautiful as before. We made it across the border pretty quick (turns out it's a lot easier to leave the US than to enter it) and got settled in our condo rental on the 33rd floor of the Pinnacle building downtown. We had great views of the mountains from our bedroom and the river and downtown from the living room. View from our bedroom We explored the old streets of Gastown with an old steam clock tower and many native art galleries. For dinner we had delicious take o...

We just got back from a weekend in Vancouver with Grandma and Grandpa Benziger. More about the delicious sushi, oysters, dim sum and the beautiful tulips and Chuckanut Drive later this week but for now you can check out the almost-crawling baby boy! (Video is only 43 seconds)

Admiring the fields of tulips outside Mount Vernon, WA   Skagit Valley Tulip Festival "Tulips in the garden; tulips in the park; but the tulips I love best are the two lips in the dark." A clever poem I overheard by Grandpa Pastorius. Mommy and Daddy took me on another road trip. This time we went to smell the roses... I mean tulips...around Mount Vernon and Anacortes. It was only an hour north of Seattle but then we drove around for another hour to admire the various daffodil and tulip fields in the area, which were in bloom during the annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. We brought along Mommy's friend, Alfred, who is and OB/GYN doctor and was a Fogarty Scholar from Kenya in 2009-10 and is in Seattle getting his Masters in Public Health at the UW. After we had enough of walking in around the fields through the mud (Daddy carried me but next year he said I get to puddle jump), we headed to Deception Pass State Park for a few hours. I really liked watching the wav...