Merry Christmas from Maine!

Some pics from the season and a promise to update more often! Little guy is growing fast, we all survived Antarctica unscathed, he's crawling and climbing up a storm (and pulling up on everything!), we're all headed to Alaska in January (I have fieldwork and we didn't want to be apart again!). Should be a fun year - hope you've all had a great 2015 and Christmas season! 

Food Food, Glorious Food!

Out little guy has been "eating food" for a week now, and so far is loving it. We wanted to go the "baby led weaning" route of giving just whole foods to chew on, but our daycare is more comfortable with mush, so we decided to do a mixture of both. We'd hoped he'd just have mush at lunch with daycare, and whole foods with us, but it turns out the little guy loves his mush as much as chewing on large pieces of broccoli.....so we now do both for him!

British Leanings

North Carolina

Long time no update, sorry! Where to start.....I guess our trip to North Carolina to visit Brandon's grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousins. This was in late July, Dylan was just shy of 5 months and did fantastically. Two planes down and two planes back and not a single grumble on any of them. The wall to wall traffic from Boston to Maine.....not so much!

Dylan and I spent all four flights this way.....:)

Starbucks to keep us all going! 

Meeting great-grandma! 

Meeting his second cousins! 

Smily boy....even in 100F heat! 

Great grandma and great grandpa! 

We visited Fort Fisher, an old colonial sand fort. 

and the Battleship North Carolina

Climbing through the ship!

The North Carolina aquarium was awesome! 

Four generations of Kellers! 

Upstairs finished!

BEFORE

Master bedroom

Master bedroom closet

Spare room

Spare room

Landing area

IN PROCESS

By by wall of the spare room! 

Opening the bathroom (right) into the corridor

Bathroom (this actually still looks like this behind closed doors, one day soon we'll tackle that bathroom....maybe pre-potty training!)

Ripping out the master closets

Checking out his new room! 

Drywall and deciding on colors! 

The corridor

Colors for Dylan's room and Brandon's office. 

Carpet underlay

FINISHED! 

New carpet on the stairs! 

The corridor - bathroom (unfinished) on the left, Dylan's room dead ahead and Brandon's office to the right. 

Dylan's polar room! 

Brandon's office and another spare room (futon). 

Reading nook on the landing. 

Master closet! 

Finally, a finished bedroom!