February fun in Holland

Cousin Elliot!

Choo Choo, Opa!!

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Two year stats

New table and chairs from Grandma & Grandpa!

Reading with buddy Colin

Henry had his 2 year check-up with his pediatrician last week. We found out that Henry now weighs 28lbs, 13oz (61st percentile), is 36 inches in height (88th percentile) and that his lovely head fits into the 86th percentile!

Henry turns 2!

The birthday boy!

High-speed Japanese trains, COOL!

"Oooohma!" (aka Oma)

Why are all of these people singing?

We celebrated Henry's 2nd birthday with friends and family this past weekend. Oma traveled from Michigan  to help prepare food and our house for 9 children, their parents and our friends. Henry was amazingly tolerant of the other kids playing with all of his toys. He especially loved jumping on his bed with daycare buddies Mateo and Tyler. The whirlwind of playing kids left our train table set completely pulled apart, and hundreds of tiny toys strewn all over our house, but the fun chaos was completely worth it. We feel blessed to have such a great network of friends.

Big bed

Henry recently discovered that he is capable of climbing out of his crib. After 3 consecutive nights of him "escaping," it was necessary for us to convert his crib to a big kid bed.

The new set-up

Henry thought it was pretty sweet!

It's a jungle gym

Happy New Year

We had a fun visit with Grandma, Grandpa and cousin Jon over the New Years holiday! Per usual, our activities centered around everything related to trains, ducks and food.

Can you shrug your shoulders like a buffalo?

A highlight of the weekend was the "countdown to 12:00 noon" ball drop at Como Zoo where we caught lion and giraffe (initially mistaken as a cow) beach balls.

Home for the holidays

We spent a very relaxing Christmas holiday weekend at home this year which mostly consisted of eating and playing with new toys (trains and airplanes and new toy kitchen supplies) as well as daily trips out of the house to the duck pond. We greatly missed being with all of our family in Michigan and Tennessee, but were lucky to be able to share a fabulous evening with some of our Minnesota "family." Henry had a great time trying out all of Colin and Nora's new toys and chasing around (aka terrorizing) Sadie the dog. We were even able to fit in a trip to the Como Zoo and Conservatory today thanks to the unseasonably warm weather (50 degrees F!)