If you're happy and you know it

Hello from Ann Arbor!

We've all been too busy to blog in a while, but Kyle is doing great here. This past month has been an explosion of language - Kyle went from having two words ("cka-cka" which meant duck, bird, or squirrel and "ba" for every word that starts with a B) to many. Some of our favorites are "apple", "baby", "Elmo", "concombre" (cucumber), and "chat" (cat). Some of his favorites are "no", "non", "more" and "encore".

More recent pictures and videos will follow soon, in the meantime I've cleared up some video backlog and posted a lot of videos from the beginning of December (when we were living in a rental house here) on my YouTube page.

My favorite (and Kyle's too) is:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w-6WjnvE3U

Rental House

We lived at Ginny's for a couple weeks while waiting for the moving truck.

Winter

Kyle is learning to love winter (and all of the fashion accessories involved)

Kyle's New Digs

Exploring the new house during the week before the moving truck arrived.

Post-Thanksgiving at Luke and Sarah's

Luke and Sarah had us over for a post-Thanksgiving meal (turkey pot pie) along with Richard, Maribeth and Phoebe. Always looking to be a good guest, Kyle brought the beers.



Kyle spent the meal hanging out with Phoebe. Since she is half his size and very gentle, Kyle was afraid of her at first.

Kyle at the beach

We spent Thanksgiving day at Hammonds Beach in Santa Barbara. Kyle loves the ocean more every time we go! As an added bonus, he no longer tries to eat large handfuls of sand at every chance he gets.














A few videos (sorry no sound):

Thanksgiving on the Road

After packing up our old place in California, we had Thanksgiving on the road this year.



We drove down to Santa Barbara, but there aren't many restaurants open on Thanksgiving. Of the possibilities, we (and most of the international grad students at UCSB) chose a nice Indian place.





The food was good, but instead of roast turkey or deep-fried turkey, our choices were turkey tandoori and turkey vindaloo. We opted instead for chicken: