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Trevor had the opportunity to surprise both sets of Grandparents at the airport this past week. Grandma Jeanne and Grandpa Steve spent 10 days touring Canada and upstate NY and Maine while Grandma Pauline and Grandpa John spent more than two weeks in Europe.

We missed surprising Grandma and Grandpa R at baggage claim but found them curbside. Better late than never, right?

We did a bit better surprising Grandma and Grandpa H outside of International Arrivals but in the excitement of the surprise we forgot to take a picture of Trevor with his Papa and Babcia! But here he is waiting patiently for them with his bottle.

Trevor sure got used to his Grandma Pauline and Grandpa John around. They spent three days with us before flying home. Trevor's new favorite thing to do is dancing the polka with his Babcia. That may or may not be spelled with an a on the end :) but we do know it means Grandma in Polish!

10 Months Old!

Trevor turned 10 months old yesterday! What a big boy! Trevor is very into chatting and mimicking any sound he hears. Today it was blowing on food to cool it down. He's hilarious! He's busy cruising around both army crawling and pulling himself up onto furniture and walking around it while holding on. He's also mastered walking behind his truck and is so proud when he completes one lap around the main floor. He is a champ at "so big" now that he's stopped grabbing for the hands of the person who says it to lift up. He does so big all on his own by lifting his own arms up.

Trevor is also very into doing anything he isn't supposed to and he knows it too that little stinker. Look where Mama found him today!

We guess checking out the food from the outside of the cabinet just wouldn't cut it any longer. Now he has to be all the way inside!

New Things

Trevor is quite inquisitive and likes to explore everything...even the kitchen cupboard filled with treats. He's probably planning what big boy food he's going to tackle next!

Moi? I'm not doing anything!

On Friday after Daddy got back from Chicago we went to our favorite pizza spot in town - Maggie's and indulged in some pizza. Apparently Trevor didn't have enough of his own lunch that he dug in too! We scraped off the toppings but the crust was all his.

Yum! This big boy food is pretty good!

And this folks is what happened when Momma took it away because he had a whole mouthful and she didn't see that he was going to stop shoveling it in.

Yep, full meltdown. Such a mean Mommy!

So of course Trevor got his piece of pizza back and our little guy was happy once again. Tears and all :)

After that piece he apparently wanted more because he slid the pizza tray towards him.

Luckily, we stopped after the one piece. Not sure pizza agrees with Trevor's tum-tum. He was up every few hours all night with gas. Or maybe we can blame a cold because he has a runny nose too. Sure hope the cold is to blame because pizza Friday's are a must at the Hillins' home!

Mommy and Trevor Fun

While Daddy was in Chicago, Mommy and Trevor had a lot of fun spending time together. Trevor is very into food, so much so we're thinking that he's about done with baby food. For example, today he leggo'd Mommy's eggo. Seems we have a breakfast eater on our hands, which is good. Trevor can have waffles with Mommy every morning!
(Don't even think of leggoing it back Mommy!)

We also went to Rainforest Café at Mall of America because Mommy thought he would like it given his love of the zoo. We got the best seat in the house, right next to an aquarium. Trevor must have been in heaven - food, fishies, animal sounds, fake jungle storms...he was eating it up! We were there for about two hours because there was just so much to take in! And it was Mommy that was ready to go after that, not Trevor!


If you thought Trevor opened up wide for a spoonful of food, you should see him open wide for a drink of water through a straw. He thought that was pretty neat-o. Too bad Mommy wasn't coordinated enough to work the camera and feed Trevor at the same time to capture the look!


Anytime Trevor wants to go back to Rainforest Café, we know Mommy won't hesitate to take him. Thanks for the great memories Trevor!

Busted

So Mommy and Daddy have gotten very good at making sure the toilet seat is always down so that Trevor isn't pulling himself to splish-splash in it, but now we also need to take down the toilet paper roll so Mr. Mischevious doesn't take it off, unroll it and eat it! Ugh!
Busted Trevor!

Big Boy Truck

Daddy got out one of Trevor's Christmas gifts from last year since our little guy is finally big enough to use it. Trevor thought his new truck was pretty cool as you can see in this picture. You can almost hear him saying "ooh ooh ooh" with excitement as he waves to Randle!

Does he not look like he grew in the past week? He looks like a little boy now! He also likes to beep the horn.

Trevor is very into walking behind things or walking while holding onto an adult's fingers so

this truck is perfect - he can push it around. We're sure there will be a pic of that coming soon!

What Really Matters

It's all about football, family and friends these days! On Saturday Sara had her friend Alissa's baby shower and Brian went golfing with the guys. Trevor's other "girlfriend" (Sara's cousin Katie) came over and spent time with Trevor.

From the sounds of it, he was an angel. They played, went for a walk, read books and had lots of cuddles. Thanks Katie!

On Sunday it was the Vikings season opener so we headed downtown for a little tailgating prior to Trevor spending time with Jeff and Dawn and the girls so Mommy and Daddy could go to the game. And they were angels for watching all four kiddos at the same time. Thank you!

Even the Valhalla Voyager made it out for some tailgating. Trevor wasn't so sure what to think with all of the crazy people, but one thing is for sure, when we put a little football in his hands he knew just what to do!


Our blow-up football player got a lot of action today - lots of people wanting their photo with him and we were no exception!

We think Trevor is a lucky boy to be able to see both sets of Godparents and his cousins in one day because in the end folks, what really matters is family. Especially when the football wasn't so great today. Just kidding, family is what it is all about and we're lucky to have a lot of ours in the same town as us!

Trevor's Future Wife

Yes, we're already plotting that Trevor and our good friends' Chandra and Matt's new daughter will marry. They simply won't have a say in it :) So, introducing you to Trevor's future wife, Sophia:

Trevor and Sophia Hillins...has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

Balloon!

Who would have guessed that one yellow balloon would bring our son so much happiness! While out for dinner last night, Trevor got a hold of his first balloon. We were hoping it would distract him while we paid the bill, little did we know it was going to be his new BFF. He loved it!

It was still by his side when we got home. He wouldn't let go of it!

It even went with him to his new favorite spot in the house - standing next to the toilet. Mommy and Daddy have gotten pretty good at making sure the seat is down so Mr. Trevor doesn't practice his splish-splash in icky water!

He probably even dreamt of the balloon that night because the next morning he gave a big smile when he saw that it was still in the house. He just had to figure out how to get to where it was hanging.

While the balloon is a new favorite, so is bread. Any bread! He's our carb lover! He was first introduced to bread while out to lunch with Mommy and Grandma and Grandpa Hillins. He rapid fired through his baby crack and was apparently still starving so we gave him little bits of bread. Well, that worked well until that evening when we were out to dinner with the whole Hillins clan and he got his hands on a breadstick. He happily fed himself until Mommy and Daddy took it away (with much protest from the little guy).

One thing Trevor isn't too sure about right now is egg yolk. He's very into feeding himself so we're trying to think of more and more things he can have that isn't just baby food. He gagged on most of this but we'll try again tomorrow. With peas and carrots he gagged on day one but by day two he was sucking them down without a problem.

Happy Grandparents Day!

On Saturday evening we celebrated an early Grandparents Day with both sets of Trevor's Grandparents. Such a lucky boy to be able to share the special day with them and the seven of us (okay, eight with Randle) always have a fun time together.


He wore his I 'heart' Grandpa shirt for extra brownie points for the B team!



On Sunday we headed over to Jeff and Dawn's for a belated birthday celebration for Grandpa John. It was a beautiful Fall day so we spent the entire afternoon outside, including time in their jumpy house. Trevor wasn't sure what to think of the slide:


Maybe it's just because he preferred to go down face first:


Trevor apparently is going to be our big helper with mowing the lawn. He's already figured out how to start the toy one that Lauren and Brooke play with:

We love this picture of Lauren and Trevor. Don't they look like they are having fun?

And a big thank you to Dawn for taking a picture of the three of us. We simply don't have enough of these pictures!

Some More Firsts for Baby Trevor

Trevor continues to amaze us with how fast he's growing. It seems like next week he'll be graduating from high school so it's probably time to stop calling him baby Trevor, but....well, Mommy is not quite ready to do that :)

Some new happenings for Trevor include wearing big boy, non-soft soled shoes. He was proud wearing them and seemed to pull himself up on more pieces of furniture and walked along the couch when having them on. These were our nephew Sam's shoes but we went out and got Trevor two new pairs because his feet were a bit crunched in these. Big boy now wears size 4 shoes!

Trevor greeted us one morning by standing up in his crib.

Trevor is very into opening drawers and cabinet doors. He especially loves digging in the pots and pans.

Baby crack is done. He's now onto baby puffs. Maybe cheetos will be next?

And Trevor has outgrown his infant carrier (or more like Mommy and Daddy's arms aren't strong enough to carry him anymore) so he's now in his big boy car seat.

Tonight is the Vikings season opener so both Daddy and Trevor showed their purple pride...which we know is not a first but it was too cute not to include :)

Another Day of Fun!

Today we respected Labor Day and did no work...all play for the Hillins clan at the Minnesota Zoo. The weather was a bit iffy so we did the outdoor activities first. Trevor made friends with the sea otters:


And tried to wake a sleeping leopard:


The best part of our family day is always just that, family day and as usual Trevor could not get enough of Daddy. He followed him around the house going wherever Daddy did and the zoo was no different.


Trevor's teeth are still bugging him although no new ones are poking through yet.

We were by the amphitheater around the time the exotic bird show was starting so we watched that. And finally a Mommy and Trevor picture :)

But that was short lived because he reached for Daddy and had to go to him. They head bonked as you can see from Trevor's red patch above his right eye and the red mark above Daddy's left eye. It's a good thing they both have hard heads!

Trevor was pretty interested in the exotic birds up until the point his tummy started rumbling. Nothing a few baby cracks couldn't help with. He played a little game of hide and seek with the puffs and Daddy's fingers. He would peel away Daddy's fingers and abracadabra there was some more!

After the bird show we headed to Trevor's favorite place at the zoo...yep, the fishies! This picture doesn't show the fishies but we thought it was a pretty cool pic to share:

We know we have lots of pictures of Trevor with the fishies but we think it's fun to see how much he's changed and grown from each of his last trips to the zoo.

And after that our guy was pooped. Feet up and all!