The Felling of the Christmas Tree

On Saturday we headed out into the "country" outside of Salem to get our Christmas tree. It was pretty cold so I bundled Silas up. He generally doesn't like being confined, and I think the full body suit made him a little grumpy.


But we caught a few half-smiles.




We finally found the perfect tree (Matt was a little annoyed that it was the hundredth one we looked at =)




Watching daddy cut it down...




And here is Silas putting up his first ornament...

Happy Thanksgiving

Our holiday adventure began Thursday with a traditional Turkey dinner at the Ries house. My mom and I went a little crazy making pies. This was toning it down actually, there were originally 5 desserts on the agenda.




On Friday we hosted the Jones clan at our house for ham, potatoes, green beans, corn, and rolls--and more desserts of course. Uncle Andy tried to convince Silas that it was time to learn to crawl, but he didn't seem too concerned with it. I think he was more interested in taking a swipe at Andy's beard.

Crazy Hair

Silas has quite a bit of hair now, but you can never tell because it's so blond. So, I spiked it up with little gel... check out my little punk. :)

My big 4 month old boy

14 lbs, 12 oz; 26 inches long

"Look, I'm sitting up!"




"Must... have... toy!"




"Got it!"

Catching Up on Fall

I am sadly behind in blogging about our fall happenings! At the end of October Gramaidi came to visit (Matt's grandmother on his mom's side), commencing a whirlwind of activities, including a trip to IKEA, eating lots of weisswurst and spaetzle, playing games, and a trip to the pumpkin patch.





Here's our little pumpkin, not quite sure what to do with so many bright round objects just waiting to be put in his mouth!




Finally, one came close enough to check out!

Hmm... it's too big for my mouth!



Then Matt decided he wanted to carve out a pumpkin and put Silas in it.

He was quite happy to get naked...




...but not so sure about sitting on a sticky wet pumpkin.