Karsten sitting up, and cute family pics

Karsten checking himself out on the blog

Such big boy sitting up!
if you click on this one to make it big it's scary cause I fixed the red eye w/ the airbrush thing... so leave it small and it's cute:)

This was sooo cute! Karsten and Daddy were watching a movie and they were both so into it.


Goofy family picture

Grandma and Karsten
His new "highchair". It's one you strap to a normal chair, he looks so big in it!

Fourth of July weekend

cousin Abigail and Kartsen


Little Abby, isn't she cute?

Karsten's new hat. Off to go swimming.
Fourth of July ended up being fun. The Whites invited us over to go swimming which ended up being really fun. Karsten slept through it, but we played with Eli:). Then later that day we went to Chris' parents house and had some yummy bbq and hung out. We went home before fireworks and got Karsten to bed... maybe next year he'll be ready for them.
The next day my brother's family came over and so did my mom. We bbq'd and had a good time hanging out with them. The kids were especially cute together.

Karsten got a haircut, finally!

Before...

After!

My mom came over and cut Karsten's hair. He hated it and screamed the whole time, but it looks so much better! I've never heard of a child needing a haircut at 5 months old!

Karsten is 5 months!

Victory! We start 'em young.

He wants to crawl but just can't quite figure it out yet.
What a mess!

" Um, let me think for a second, ya I'm cute."



I catch him sucking on his big toe, yummy!
Dad caught a picture with the drool in mid air!


Look at those rolls.

We can't believe our boy is already 5 months old! He is so much fun! He's becoming so much more aware of his surroundings. He's been grabbing at things a lot more efficiently, most recently our faces which is so cute and painful at times. He's eating solid foods as you can see from the above pictures. He's been rolling over a lot more and in the early morning hours he tends to roll over onto his tummy in his sleep and can't get back over so mommy gets to go rescue him. He'll figure it out soon I'm sure:0)
We are so overjoyed with what a blessing it is to be parents! We love our little guy.

Just for fun

Daddy's favorite one

Cute boy

Mommy playing after bathtime
Doesn't he look Asian here? He has mommy's eyes.


He's found his feet

New hair

I cut my hair, I know almost all new mommies do it. It was always in a pony tail because Karsten would pull it, and I never did it anymore, so it was time. Chris approved so I jumped at the chance and did it before he changed his mind. Yay! I love it!

Crazy weather!

This was the day southern California got crazy weather. This picture was after less than 10 minutes of rain and hail! Trash cans were floating down the street. There was also a tornado warning.
That white stuff is hail.
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