Happy 6 Year Anniversary

Six years ago on a beautiful Fall day, we had a wonderful wedding ceremony and reception. Time sure flies by and now we have a beautiful family. This is one of our favorite images from our special day. It captures our look of love and we still have it six years later!


For this anniversary we pricelined a hotel downtown and enjoyed some swimming with the little guy. He is definitely a water baby. He was only ready to get out after his teeth were chattering from being cold...that was after about an hour!


After our swimming escapade we headed back to the house for Trevor to have his first overnight without Mama and Dada. That was a bit tough but we knew he was in good hands with Grandma and Grandpa Roslansky. We then enjoyed a wonderful dinner at Jax Café, dessert at Zelo, a drink on the rooftop at Solera, and danced the night away at Sneaky Pete's (classy, we know). Sure felt like we were back in grad school! The night ended with a late night call to Domino's pizza. What a wonderful evening to celebrate a special occasion!

Friday Family Fun

On Friday evening before Sara headed out to her friend Stacey's clothing party, we had a bit of family time at the park across the street from our house. The weather was gorgeous by Minnesota standards so we had to take advantage while we could.

Our little guy just gets cuter and cuter, especially in these adorable overalls from our friends the Flahertys!


Just when you think his hair couldn't get any higher, oh yes it can...when Dada throws him up in the air. He loved it!! He wanted more and more and more and just laughed and laughed.


Please Dada, more?


One happy family!


I can stand on my own and pretty soon I'll be climbing this tree!

Walking, walking, walking. This is what Trevor wants to do all day long. Sometimes he'll go one handed but still prefers walking while holding onto someone's both hands. Kind of a cool shot with our house in the back!

No Mommy, I don't want to go home. Can we just stay out a little longer? Please?

Fall Leaves with Sam

Earlier this week we headed over to Jim and Annie's to take a few family photos for them in front of their gorgeous maple tree that was bright red. We got some great shots of them and then decided to keep snapping some pics of the little cuties before we all headed out for dinner.

They tend to look like they are having a conversation with one another without saying a word. Although in this pic Treavor is more like 'hey Sam! are you going to share some of those goldfishies with me?'


And then out of nowhere, Trevor gave us a 'so big'! Sam is like ' no need to show off Trevor'!

Sam was all about his baseball bat. Are you going to be a good baseball player like your Daddy? We bet you will be!

On the way over there we stopped at a place Mommy had seen to take a few pics of Trevor in the pumpkins. He surely didn't seem to mind sitting on one and was quite happy to get his picture taken over and over...well, until an airplane flew overhead. Then he was all about the plane.

We've started calling his hair his halo. With it standing up and the way it shines in the sunlight it sure looks like he has a halo which puts a smile on our face because it reminds us of all of our angels up in heaven, like the Grandmas, that watch over us every day and every night.

Our Little Walker

Trevor is big into walking behind his dump truck these days as you can see from the video. It's a bit long but it gives you an idea what he does every day for quite a while!

Music Class

We enrolled music class for another semester since he had so much fun during the last one. This one is on Saturday mornings so both Mommy and Daddy can go. As usual, Trevor had a great time with the other kids while listening to and playing different instruments. Here are just a few of the highlights of this week's class:


Parachute up high, parachute down low. He makes this heavy, rapid breathing sound when he gets excited and we definitely hear it when the parachute comes out!



Finally the balls are ours!



Bubbles! He's fascinated by bubbles - both watching and reaching out to pop them!



Sitting on the grand piano to feel the vibrations:



The bouncy ball was sure a hit too! To hear the sound of the video you'll have to put our music playlist on pause:



Doesn't he just look like trouble here?


He has so many cute expressions these days! As Mommy says about ten times a day "we just love him"!

Welcome Back

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!