Ok, so the picture on the top is of Thayne when he was around 18 months old (I think). I have that photo taped up to my wall in the office. The other day I was working and Thayne came in and said "Mama look." So when I turn around he is standing on the piano (the second picture). Anyway, I told him to get down so he didn't fall down and he did and turned around and said "Mama look." He was pointing at the picture and then climbed back on the piano. So of course I whipped out the camera and got the photo of Thayne at 3 years standing on the piano. Silly kid cracks me up.

Claire with Aunt Trish.

Birthday Part #2!! Every year we have a combined birthday party with Aidan who is one year older than Thayne and Aunt Bette. This years theme was Tom & Jerry. The party does seem to get bigger and bigger every year. But the kids have a great time and that is what counts. It always is nice that every other year more of the cousins are here for Thanksgiving. It was a great party with lots of fun. Happy Birthday Bette, Aidan and Thayne!!!

Birthday Party #1. Thayne turnes 3!!! We just had a small party at the house for Thayne. We made his favorite dinner...Corn dogs, cottage cheese and apples. Yummmy!!! He was excited for all his gifts. Just had to keep rotating them around to make sure he was playing with everything and we are already wearing in the Wall E movie.

Great Grandma Peterson and Great Grandma Fritz with Claire & Thayne.

Ahh the cute little Clairebear in her Kitty towel.

Every morning when Thayne gets up, he gets Claire and they play under the blanket together. She has grown to love it and the moment she sees him she just starts laughing in anticipation.

Halloween!! Here is Thayne sitting with is pumpkins after a long night of Trick-or-Treating. And if he was outside it made it easier for Mom and Dad to pick through the candy we wanted:)

On Tuesday, October 28, it was Thayne's first day of preschool. He was very excited and had a great time. Also having his good buddy Ryan in the same section made it nice also. Our little boy is getting so big:)

Then we ended the night with a bit of entertainment from Aidan. Just as a little FYI, he is watching his reflection in the windows:)

Then came the pillow fight. Kurt was the first to take on the boys:)

Guess they are #1:)

Little brother getting older brother when he can!!

They had to sit together for some photos with Grandma before the pillow fights could begin!!

This is pretty much how the night went...Elmo and Buzz Lightyear Wrestling.:)

We got all the cousins together that live close the weekend before Halloween because Grandma Carol was going to be gone on Halloween. So we have Elmo (Thayne), Buzz Lightyearm (Aidan), Skunk or "Lil Stinker" (Cory) and Curious George (Claire). What a crew. We had a great time.

The weekend before Halloween we went out to Grandpa and Grandma Fritz's house to carve pumpkins. Grandma and I had to do most of the carving, even though Thayne tried his hardest to get a knife. They thought it was great fun.

Ok, so it has been a while since I have updated this so I am going to try and get somewhat caught up. These are some pictures of Thayne and his snowman earlier in October when we got some awesome snow. Eric suggested that we use Fruit Loops for his face, well that seemed to be a bit more of a challenge then I thought it would be. I would put them in and he would take them out and eat them. So finally I got enough shoved in there and this is what we came up with. Thayne let it be for about 2 minutes then he started breaking his arms and then he came down.

Here is all of us neighbors in the NICU. Traci & Claire, Blanqui & Joshua, and Mandy & Hannah. I will always remember the day that I walked by Hannah to see Claire and Hannah was screaming. When I told Crystal (our nurse) that is was Hannah, she ran right over to check her out and she was sleeping peacefully, then as soon as Crystal left, Hannah would let out another scream and again Crystal would check and Hannah was still sleeping. This went on a few times before Crystal believed me that it was Hannah screaming. Blanqui and I spent some time together outside of the NICU and had a wonderful dinner and a fun time shopping on evening. Watching these three grown will be awesome, since they all started out so small and are doing so great.

This past weekend was the NICU Reunion Picnic up in Billings. This cute little boy is Joshua and he was our neighbor in the NICU for several weeks. But as you see here, we found out that our little princess is a bit of a bully. She thought Joshua was just funny. She would look at him and smile and then tried to beat him up, but Joshua was a little gentleman and just took it. It was so wonderful to see some of our nurses and doctors and how wonderful all the little babies are doing. What amazing stuff those nurses and doctors do in the NICU. Thanks for a wonderful time!!

This is Claire's new rubber ducky bath tub that our good friends Kevin and Renee got for her. She loves it. When she sees it she gets excited and then you just have to give her a bath. We just have to watch her because once in a while she gets going too fast and she about bounces herself out of the duck. Thanks Kevin & Renee

Claire's favorite thing to do these days is suck on her feet and toes. Claire's six month checkup had her at 12 lbs 6 oz. So she is growing right up. She is very close to crawling, but gets where she needs to go by rolling.

Last night was a beautiful evening outside so while we were BBQing, Thayne and I found out that the Bumbo wasn't big enough for both of us and somehow baby Claire took a nap even with all the noise we were making.