Merry Christmas!

7 months old! 12/23- working on tooth #2!

12/24- Thanks for the outfit, Grandma Angie!

Grandma and Grandpa Crowder

Christmas Breakfast!

Good Morning!

The ever so hard to find Baby's First Christmas outfit! Especially in 12 month size! Thanks, Aunt Sarah for finding it!!

This is pretty much how Colin's present opening went- try to rescue the wrapping paper from being eaten!

Poor child- he didn't get anything for Christmas, did he? ;)

Just some of Colin's gifts- thanks everyone for your generosity for Colin's first Christmas!

A stuffed donkey from my Uncle Farel and Aunt Judy

My Uncle Farel and Aunt Judy- from Oregon but now live where the road takes them in their RV! Thankfully that takes them to Arizona for most of the winter and they can spend the day with us!

Merry Christmas from the Verners! Rodney, Lizzy, Colin, Samson and Delilah!!

Well, I just wrote this whole big thing and went to add pictures and the text all went away! We have had a wonderful week- Christmas shopping season over for Rodney, all preparation done on time for Lizzy, Colin turned 7 months old and is working on a second tooth, and my parents had a safe drive out from Missouri. We had a great Christmas and Colin really has been enjoying his time with visitors! We had a great Christmas Eve service last night at Summit all together as a family and some yummy Orchard Farm sausage after church. Today we were all up early, had breakfast and did our gifts while Colin took his morning nap. He did his gifts when he woke up and wanted to eat the wrapping and boxes of course! It would help if he could actually play with anything instead of them all being tied up so tight in boxes! He had fun with them later. Uncle Farel and Aunt Judy could join us again this year and we had a great visit and dinner together. We're all tired and will look forward to resting tomorrow. We hope you had a wonderful CHRISTmas!!

December already?

Aww...winter pj's! (I couldn't get him to turn around!)

His favorite mode of transportation- rolling.

Um, Colin, you hit the pole!

How can it be December already!? Didn't I just have a baby??? Oh wait, that was 6 months ago! My, how time flies! Things are fine in the Verner household. Rodney's working very hard to have a great Christmas at the store. We're having fun at the house just doing normal things- I'm cleaning and Colin's teething. Yes, that first tooth is popping through! So far he hasn't been too cranky or anything. Colin is doing well. Still so big, but that's ok with us! He did have a stomach virus last week that really shocked us. I had a bag ready because I thought for sure we were going to end up in the hospital again because his temperature was 105! But, it went down pretty quickly and we just had to work on fluids and keeping that temp down. A few days later and he was back to normal. We spend a lot of time playng on the floor these days and Colin sits up for a long time and rolls around all over. Colin is copying noises a lot, including the animal sounds he hears when we play "Farmville" on facebook. As I'm writing this he is in his crib saying "mama". I don't know if he really is asking for me or if he's just babbling, but he says that a lot. If we tell him to say "Da-da" he will get the "a" part! Oh well, we'll keep working on that! We're getting in the Christmas spirit here. House decorations are up inside and we're looking foraward to Christmas so much! Mom and Dad will be here in less than two weeks as well. We can't wait!