http://www.heatherpreuss.com Ooncha Ooncha 1-2-3-cha; Heather just brought you a Breadtangle of Pizza. Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:08:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have done a lot this October already. Andrew's enjoyed the fall weather.  He's hung out around the house, we've gone pumpkin picking, and we got him a swingset.  Here are some photos of what we've been up to.  There are also videos up on youtube if you're curious. By the way ... http://www.heatherpreuss.com/2008/10/25/october-update-pre-halloween/ In April, I posted photos of Andrew sitting next to Buster on the beanbag chair. It's now 6 months later.  We tried to duplicate the photo, with little success... Before (Dec & April)... Now... He's gotten WAY big. Instead, we did a better job capturing him toddling about.  Here's a set of photos of ... http://www.heatherpreuss.com/2008/10/05/flashback-photo/ Many of you have noticed we sometimes call Andrew "Andy-man".  It originally stemmed from his nickname at daycare from one of his teachers, Lindsey.  She was cool, and it stuck.  But thinking back on it, we had heard something similar before...at one of our fave online cartoons (and the idea ... http://www.heatherpreuss.com/2008/09/26/my-troublemaker-pop-culture-reference/ This month was a big month for Andrew. He's now taking 8-10 steps on his own, is drinking well from a sippy, and has learned to climb stairs.  He knows "Ma", "Ba", "Da", "Ga", and is working on "Na", and "EYE" or "I"....  we updated a September gallery in our photo ... http://www.heatherpreuss.com/2008/09/21/andrew-is-moving-now/ So the title says it all. We went camping Labor Day weekend, at Little River State Park. It was a lot of fun. We brought the playpen, and that worked out wonderfully. We took a nature hike, and saw some abandoned stone cellars, and some dead pine trees ... http://www.heatherpreuss.com/2008/09/01/guess-what-we-didwent-camping-then-posted-another-entry/ Andrew is now 9mo old.  He's over 22 lbs, and is long.  We find out how long Tuesday.  He's in 12-18mo PJ's and 9-12mo clothes for now... Today Mom & Andy spent the day together.  Mom made up some fingerpaint with flour, water, and food coloring.  And Andy spent part of ... http://www.heatherpreuss.com/2008/08/22/andrews-an-artist/ So we went camping!  That means we update our blog. We went to CT and visited Karen, Kevin, the twins, and saw Uncle Gary.  We had decent enough weather, and a great time.  The campsite we stayed at was wonderful, and had we known how nice it was, we would have ... http://www.heatherpreuss.com/2008/08/04/august-update/ Many of you know we both went to school and majored in engineering.  As part of the curricula, we purchased very expensive handbooks to assist us in remembering dimensionless numbers, and coefficients, and equations that could be relevant to our profession.  We store these in our den. Andrew has been finding ... http://www.heatherpreuss.com/2008/07/21/while-were-sharing/ Andrew is getting really good at crawling. I do NOT suggest this as a before-bedtime routine, but it is pretty funny to watch. BTW -- he did this for about 10 minutes before bed today.  Just chasing around the little roll-a-round ball.  Good times. http://www.heatherpreuss.com/2008/07/20/we-had-to-share-this/ We went camping again this weekend.  Very short, but very fun.  The campground was nice, but nothing spectacular enough to merit a photo. Since we posted last, Andrew is just cruising right on into adulthood. He now weighs 22 lbs, and is in 9-12mo clothes.  He is about 1/2 as tall as ... http://www.heatherpreuss.com/2008/07/14/we-post-after-camping-these-days/