Watch Out Michael Phelps!

Here comes Gerrit Birr swimming the back stroke and breast stroke!




Bath time is a bit more entertaining these days. Gerrit is more daring at each bath. Tonight I didn't get a chance to rinse his hair before he put his head in the water. One less job for me! (Sorry for the poor light quality, the camera dimmed once I started recording.)

Learning a Lesson (hopefully)?

Can you tell what's missing?


Gerrit can't seem to understand that he can't hang on the net! We've tried raising the hoop but then its no fun to shoot (he can't make any baskets). He doesn't understand the many times we say 'no' or when we turn the hoop towards the wall. So, we just removed the problem all together. He looked at it strangely when Adam took the net off and knew something wasn't the same. For now we'll shoot w/o the net and hopefully we can put it back on in a few weeks.

Then and Now

Feb. 2008: Gerrit fell into the toy basket trying to get at his toys.

Seven months later: Gerrit climbs into his toy basket to get at his toys.

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Maybe Not

After work today Gerrit was sitting on my lap and looking at his truck book. This was the same book that he was looking at intently yesterday that made us so proud. When I looked at Gerrit 'reading' the book today, I noticed it was up side down! So maybe we don't have a scholar on our hands unless he's one of those 'think outside the box' kids.

Double Scholarship

We are all battling colds at our house these days. It doesn't seem to stop us, just is a bother. Despite the runny noses we are managing to keep up with our busy schedules. Adam has spent the past 2 days fixing our 'sick' computer - it had a virus. Thanks to a friend who gave him guidance it didn't take a ton of time to fix. I was able to get a quick run in before dinner with Gerrit along for the ride. I started training for a 1/2 marathon (no time for a full one) which is in Phoenix in Jan. - hoping to visit Uncle Travis and Great Uncle Bryan for a long weekend. Gerrit kept busy doing his own thing as well.

He spent quite a bit of time looking at his book on trucks. It was fun to watch him sit amongst his toys paging through the book. For some reason he managed to move to the stairs and sat there to read it too.

Adam is hopeful for a double scholarship based on these two photos...

Gerrit has both brains and game!
(A little bit of mom and dad!)

Pumpkin

One of my favorite veggies to grow is pumpkins. I don't do much other than plant the seeds and let nature take its course. This year I planted seeds from Gerrit's pumpkin from last year as well as new seeds (in case the old ones didn't take). Well, I am proud to say I have 7 pumpkins growing and a few are turning orange.

I had heard that if you carve a name in the pumpkin while it is still young, the name will grow as the pumpkin grows. So, on one of the pumpkins growning from Gerrit's pumpkin seeds from last year I decided to try it. Hopefully I didn't wait too late and this pumpkin will still grow a bit larger before turning orange. We shall see; I'll keep you posted.

Football

Yesterday we went to Paul's first 6th grade football game. It was a beautiful Sat. morning so we went to check out the game. They play on the big high school field which makes it more exciting for a bunch of 6th grade boys. Here are a few pictures from our time at the game. We didn't win but its early in the season...

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