Third haircut, 10 months

This one was a bit more difficult than the last one, he hated it! He just doesn't like being held down, also doesn't like the sound the clippers make. He lived though, and needs to get used to it cause his hair grows SO fast and he has a TON of it!

This boy LOVES the bath!

He is so cute with baths! He get's so excited and says "BA?" and does the sign for it. He has so much fun, and when he gets out he's so cuddly and sweet! He gives us big hugs with his towel wrapped around him and lays his head on our shoulder and pats us like we pat him on the back, it's adorable!

New house

Karsten's first time "helping" Dad mow the lawn.



Grandma Rene and Karsten playing with his new rocking horse.

We moved into our new house in mid October. It was pretty crazy trying to get the whole house painted in a couple of weekends, but thank God we had help from both of our families! We love our new house! It's much more spacious, and best of all it's OURS!
Karsten had just turned 9 months when we moved in and almost immediately started crawling. He developed his own way that was really funny, he would push with one leg and scoot on the other; whatever worked for him with our hard floors!

Karsten's 2nd haircut , 8 months

Before...

During (Daddy did the cutting, Mommy did the entertaining)...




After! Good job Dad!

Family fun

Look at the BIG boy! This is at 8 months old, not yet crawling.

Karsten loves reading books!

Ah, cuddles with the furry book!



He loves to turn the pages all by himself! He's about 8 months here.

Mini Vacation

In September some friends of ours, Matt and Amy Bradley, invited us up to Amy's parents gorgeous cabin, in Big Bear, which the had recently built. It was a lot of fun and relaxing!

It's been way too long!

I LOVE those lips!!!

Karsten gets really excited when someone is following him!


pre second haircut.

He loves these knobs! He uses his feet to grab things, it's amazing, I call him monkey.

playing on the floor
We don't really have any recent sleeping pics, so daddy took one, cute boy!

Bath time fun! He loves bath time!


Well I haven't posted anything in a while and the longer I went the harder it was to post anything! We just bought a house and have been painting there and packing here, all the while Chris has been out of town for the greater part of the last 6 weeks working. We joined Youth staff at our church, and all of this started happening at around the same time, so needless to say we've been busy! Since I am doing this whole blog mainly to print into a book at the end of the year, I figure it's not going to become any less busy with the holidays coming, moving in to our new house, and many other things coming up in our calender so I'd better update now and try to be as consistent as possible with this in the midst of busyness! I'm leaving a lot out but here's what I have...

Two Teeth!

Our boy has two teeth now! You can see one clearly and the other just broke through. He a big boy! He's almost 7 months now!!! Oh my goodness, that is crazy!

Cute Karsten 6 1/2 months old

Demings and Morloks

" So you say you have some hair I can borrow?"

Asher (3 years), Abigail (8 months), & Karsten (6 months)

Grandma Rene and the grand babies



We went to Escondido for my sister-in-law's birthday we're the same age, only 6 days apart. We finally got some pictures of the 3 cousins, YAY!

Guess who woke up with his first tooth?!

Karsten has been going through the pains of teething for a while now on and off, not too terrible though. The last few days he has been doing really well so we just thought he was on the "off" swing of teething, but no, he woke up today with a little sharp tooth poking through his gums on the bottom. You can't really see it that well but you can sure feel it! We were so excited we tried to take a picture but it's really not visible. I wanted to post them anyway for the memory:)