Teething

It is official we have the first tooth sighting! It has just started to poke through. The bottom left one. Also, yesterday Bear started crawling. Well, it is more of the Army arm crawl or the 3 point crawl. At any rate he is up and moving. And into everything.

Just thought I'd leave you all with a photo from Omi of our trip. Toy store and Omi kisses, what more could a kid ask for?

Our trip to see Omi in Tyrol...

What a great trip! 24 hours worth of travel is a killer but was very worth it. We had so much fun... I guess the best way will to be to start at the beginning.

We left the house at 4 a.m. so we could depart on the first flight of the day out of Missoula. Our plan was to fly Missoula to Salt Lake City to Atlanta to Munich. That morning it ended up that the flight from Salt Lake to Atlanta got full. So we switched to plan B. Fly from Salt Lake to Boston and then take Lufethansa to Munich. Best thing we could have done. They treat you so well! Bear got a bassinet to stretch out and sleep in. Tom and I got fed two nice meals, free alcoholic beverages, and even got hot towels. This is all in coach. I can only imagine what you get in first class.

The other cool thing about going through Boston was that Bear met another little boy that is about 9 months old too. We ended up sitting next to each other on the plane too. They had a good time playing together.

Let's see, so we made it to Munich just fine and then we were met by the taxi driver from Xander taxi. 3 hours later we made it into Lienz. Whew! We all took showers and met up with Ginna and Ilona. We spent a wonderful 4 days walking and driving around Lienz and the surrounding area. We even got to have a picnic lunch in Italy. Bear loved hanging out with everyone. He gets such a kick out of dogs too. The kid is such a trooper. He has done really well adjusting to the time zone changes. Tom and I didn't do so hot. In addition to that he learned a couple new things on the trip. He can now wave at people and he can get himself into a sitting position from laying on his stomach or back. He is soooooo close to crawling too. I keep expecting it to happen any moment. It isn't quite there yet.

That's about it for major news from the trip. The Easter Bunny found Bear at the hotel. We had wonderful weather and smooth travels. It couldn't have been a better vacation. Especially for travelling so long with a baby.

Here's Bear flying to Omi's house.

Bear stretches his legs after flying all day and night. Pretty happy kid.

The valley in Tyrol. What beautiful spring weather!

Tom and Bear in Tyrol.

Laundry day so Bear was in swim trunks. He's practicing standing with Dad.

A great portrait of the boys.

Bear and Tom on the flight home from Munich.

The Denver ramp on the way home. It was a little crazy since we were an hour early and there was a nice wind to hamper landing etc.



Bear woke up for one of the landings. "Are we home yet?"


We did finally make it home at about midnight. Glad to be home, but we miss Austria and Omi already.

Wild Hair Man

This was right after Bear's morning nap today...

Found the camera!

Bear had just woken up yesterday before we did baby swap.

Several days ago...Tom could get him to wear the hat but I couldn't.

Dr. Appointment

Well, Tom and Bear had their dr. appointment yesterday. I guess it went well. I didn't get to go since I had to be at work.:( Tom got his stitches out and Bear got his check-up. Tom's stitches were from a cyst he had removed a week ago and they agreed to remove them in the same dr. visit with Bear. One of the nice things about a small town. So down to the nitty-gritties I guess... Bear is 29 inches long and 22 lbs. In the 90th and 75th percentiles. Tom said the new p.a. took the time to chart out his growth since birth. Kinda nice since no one else has taken the time to do that. Apparently Bear liked this guy too. Tom said he was very well behaved for the nurses and p.a. during the whole visit. Oh, the one other thing is that Bear is getting over a cold. It can't be too bad of a cold since Tom and I had forgotten he even had one. He's been a bit boogery. Other than that you'd never know the kid had anything going on. Happy, eating, drinking, and all the stuff that they ask about is going just fine. Like I said, we forgot he even had anything going on since all has been so normal.

The only advice on our big trip was to not give him Benadryl. I still find it amazing people do this. I know a lot do, but wow. Why would you drug your kid? I can't see drugging him for that long either. Doesn't anyone worry about what it will do to the kids in the long run? Maybe I'm weird in the fact that I don't see any reason for a kid (or anyone for that matter) take a drug unless you really need it. I don't understand our society of pill poppers. I don't even like to take an asprin/ibuprofen etc. Oh well.

I would post some recent photos of Bear except that my camera is in the diaper bag that I can't find. Tom and I did the baby shuffle yesterday for work, and he didn't leave the bag in any obvious place. I'm thinking he probably has it in the car with him. That would be fine except we need to go to town again today so we'll need a diaper bag. I guess we'll build a new one unless we find the other.

Less than a week until we are headed for Austria!!