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!

Let's Go Twins!

Today we attended our last Twins game of the season and let's just say we could have ended on a better note. Trevor was a tired camper and too stubborn to sleep. Not sure where he gets that stubbornness :) but we surely can't blame him for not sleeping in a loud stadium. That and there was another pretty girl for him to flirt with!



Such a tired boy yet he wouldn't close those peepers.


Well, that and we did get to the game extra early due to some confusion around the game's start time. The tickets said it was a 1:10 game but some Twins legends played a slow-pitch game at 12:30 so the game didn't start until 2:00. We left the game in the sixth inning which was too bad given the beautiful weather, we were winning and our awesome seats but that is okay. He can't be perfect baby all of the time, he is a baby after all :)

Sam didn't nap during the game either so we came back to our house for the boys to nap and the adults to chat. After a quick 45 minute nap by each boy they were full of energy and apparently very hungry. They couldn't get enough "o's" from Annie's hands fast enough!

State Fair Time!

We braved the cold today to show Trevor Minnesota's great get-together...the State Fair! It was 56 degrees when we headed out and boy was it windy. Brrr! We saw people in winter jackets, gloves, and ear muffs. Ah, isn't people watching at the State Fair the best? Trevor seemed to enjoy our day although probably not as much as his Mommy and Daddy since he couldn't help himself to all of the yummy food...garlic bread, pronto pup, burrito, beer, fried pickles, malt, and australian potatoes were just some of the treats Mommy and Daddy enjoyed.

Trevor thought the best thing was holding onto the spoon from the malt. It's the simple things in life for our boy!


We toured the Miracle of Birth Center and saw piglets and a calf being born. Trevor pet one of the piglets born yesterday.


He also took an interest in a little lamb, so much so that the Fair person holding it had to grab Trevor's arm and say gentle touches. But, no, we don't have a picture of that because our camera battery died. Ugh!

Skol Vikings!

Trevor attended his first Vikings game and we think he's ready for football season!


Inside the metrodome gets super loud so we bought ear plugs and noise reducing headphones. The ear plugs didn't work so well in his tiny ears but the headphones worked great. We know they did the job when he didn't flinch when fireworks were going off at our endzone. He didn't mind them too much, plus he looked absolutely adorable in them!


However, he did get a bit ansy when our friends around us were busy watching the game rather than paying attention to him so he ate a cracker while trying to figure out why Brett Favre wasn't playing:


When the cracker got old, Daddy's empty beer bottle kept him occupied. Before you call social services on us, we swear it was empty :)

Well, how about some Trevor cam:

Nah, Trevor was quite the flirt. He could not get enough of one girl a few rows behind us. He was waving at her, giggling, babbling, and trying to crawl over Mommy to get to her. We have quite the lady's man on our hands!

We had a lot of fun taking Trevor to the game, even if Mommy and Daddy didn't get to watch a lot of the game. That's okay, we simply enjoy creating special memories for Trevor and this was one of those times. We've been wanting to get a family pic in our football gear at a football game so don't be surprised if this is our holiday card pic....lol!

We left at half-time because it was way past Trevor's bedtime and we want him to be a happy camper tomorrow when we hit the MN state fair. Fair food here we come!

9 Month Check-up

Trevor had his 9 month check-up yesterday and he passed again with flying colors!

Weight = 20 pounds, 7 ounces (47th percentile)
Height = 30 inches (90th percentile)
Head = 18.0 inches (61st percentile)

He had to have one shot and his finger poked for some hemoglobin test...boy did he NOT like that one bit. His face turned bright red and he cried and cried and cried. Poor guy! He also did not like having a band-aid on his finger at all. He pulled that off in a second and like everything else it went in his mouth. Gross!

But he's happy and healthy so we continue to feel really blessed.