Mommy passed her Ph.D. candidacy exam last Thursday (yay, Mommy!), so we're finally able to relax a bit and prepare for the coming holidays. This week, we enjoyed post-exam celebrations with friends in Davis, a lab get-together at Suzanne and Keith's on Friday, and a Christmas-tree-finding expedition on Sunday. It was fun to spend time together as a family, clean the house, start decorating for Christmas, and, most of all, not study. Little Caden has been improving his balance, and happily stands while holding onto a chair, Mommy, or Daddy.On Friday evening, Caden had fun playing with his friends James and Owen. Toward the end of the evening, when the little ones were getting tired of all of the adults talking, Caden and James were mesmerized by the slowly turning ceiling fan.
On Saturday morning, Mommy and Caden snuggled together on the couch and perused the gift catalogs for ideas.
Portraits!
On Sunday, we headed over to Santa Rosa for Caden's 8-month portraits. Yep, our cute little guy passed his 8-month milestone last Monday. It's hard to believe how fast the past 3/4 of a year have gone!
O, Christmas tree
The rain stopped for a few hours on Sunday afternoon, and we took advantage of the break in the weather to take Caden on his first Christmas tree cutting expedition. He had a great time riding in the backpack in the sunshine and touching the different types of trees at the farm, including scaly cedars, prickly spruces, and soft firs. After a bit of searching, we found a really nice tree:
2 comments:
Cute pictures! =) And congrats to Cascade!
That's a lovely tree! Congatulations on passing your orals, Cascade!
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