I can only imagine Graeme doing this in the not-so-distant future...in fact, this boy kind of looks like Graeme a bit, no? The video is a bit long, but the editing at the very end is worth the wait.

Graeme Pollock

Graeme does a lot of art projects at school. Up until know it had mostly been feet prints. Today he finger painted! It's a cloud. Sorry for the poor picture quality, it's a picture of a picture.

Busy, beauty and some birthdays

We had a busy weekend! Friday night we met up with Paul and Kendra for dinner and a movie. Graeme served as entertainment for a good portion of the evening. After he went to bed, we dined on delicious take out and watched Hot Tub Time Machine - which we highly recommend!

Meanwhile, Toni and Kim were on their way to our house for the following events. Uncle Chris watched Graeme while the girls attended a Women's Expo at Aveda's HQ in Blaine. There were several vendors hawking their wears as well as massage, facial and hair styling stations. Here I am post-facial. How do I look?

After hitting up the styling station we collected our bag of free Aveda products and headed out. We spent the rest of the afternoon at Chris and Meg's. Matt's family has a lot of March birthdays. Matt, Chris and their Uncle Steve all celebrated between the 18th and and the 24th. We decided to have a joint dinner at Outback Steakhouse. Our party was so big (13 people!) that they split us up between two tables. We had a chance to catch up with Liz and Patrick, who met Graeme for the first time that night. I think they got along fine!

Graeme and Patrick, fast friends

Graeme and Liz

 Birthday boy #1 (and Brynn!)

Birthday boys 2 & 3 (and Grace!)

Today we were lazy. It's the first Sunday in many weeks that Matt hasn't worked. It was nice. Graeme and Matt spent some quality time together and like most days, Graeme worked on his modeling portfolio.

 Oh yeah, he also practiced holding his own bottle today!

An incident

Every day Graeme comes home with a report card of sorts. It details his daily activities, likes and dislikes, when he sleeps, eats, poops, etc. Today was no exception but, in addition to the report was another sheet of paper. An incident report to be exact. Now at 6 months old what trouble could Graeme have possibly gotten into? I'd heard rumor that he'd been swapping socks on the play mat, but no harm no foul, right?! Turns out Graeme was only harming himself...he's got a sizable scratch on his neck from a freak 'trying to take his own bib off' accident. Turns out Velcro is tough on baby skin. Check out the 'action taken' section. I wish we could solve all the world's problems that way.

Wishing a very Happy Birthday to Unclie Chris!
We got you a balloon.

And just like that, winter was back. Our weather ran the gamut of thunderstorms to sleet to snow yesterday. We faired much better in the southern 'burbs of Minneapolis than they did in the northern part of the state. Duluth was under a blizzard warning. The weather people are already talking severe flooding for our area, this additional water isn't helping.

Today is matt's 30th birthday! We're keeping it low-key with dinner and dessert tonight.

We had bacon cheeseburgers & chocolate brownie cakes with peanut butter frosting for dessert. They were delicious. Graeme helped put the brownies together...I really hope he enjoys cooking and baking someday.



Into the oven!


Tada!