Christmas 2012 and Japan 2012

We had a small Christmas at home because we flew out to Japan on the 23rd.  Santa delivered early by special request:)  Isaac and Luke had a blast visitng their granparents, aunt, uncle and cousins in Japan.  They got to play in the snow and hang out with them.  We had a very nice visit, although it ended in a sickness everyone survived none the less.  The boys did relatively well on the airplane.  Luke had a bassinet on the ariplane so he could sleep, luckily he just made the weight limit. :)

Luke is crawling and standing

Luke has started to go everywhere, and stand!  He has been moving around for about a month and now has started to stand.  He wants to stand everywhere!

Isaac biking like a pro!

We went for a nice family ride the other day to the local Junior college.  This is where Isaac practices his bike skills.  He is doing really well!

Isaac riding his bike without training wheels!!

Isaac has been practicing on his big boy bike and now he can ride his bike without training wheels.  Yeah!!

Luke 5 months

Luke is progressing along. He is rolling often and making his way across the floor by rolling.  He eats alot.  He loves his food!

Luke's bathtub

It has aways been a dilemma with the bathtubs for the our children.  Our bathtub is deep and hard to bend over for our backs and the baby bathtubs in the store don't keep the baby warm because part of the body is out of the water.  We were looking for different bathtubs and found a European style bathtub that would cost about $70.  We decided to make our own American version of the European style baby bathtub.  Here is a picture of Luke and his big brother Isaac, with Luke in the bathtub.

Summer Fun

This summer we went to Yosemite, Oregon and of course we went to SF.  The Japanese family came over and visited us.  We went to Yosemite and spent a couple of days.  Although to our surprise there was no water, not even in the lake.  We hiked there and it was completely dry.  Then later in the summer we went to Oregon and saw Crater lake and visited family.