Merry Christmas Clark!

Clark had such a great first Christmas! We had so much fun just watching him have fun! He got lots great gifts and enjoyed each and every one of them... he literally would play for a toy then go on to the next one, then the next. It was very cute :-)

Merry Christmas buddy! Even Caleb was feeling very festive this year!

He was very blinky with the camera this day. As soon as I'd get the camera out, he'd close his eyes, strange for him, he's usually a ham. But here he is trying out his Mickey ride on plane from Grami.

Playing in the ball tent from Auntie Cheryl. He gets so wild in it!

Clark loves his ball tent :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUW1WojnXnc&feature=share

He started to get the hang of the unwrapping thing....

He also loved this play tunnel that Grami sent

Having fun with his new walker. He doesn't get the walking with it part yet, so for now he just sits and presses the buttons.

Playing with his elephant ball popper from Grandma

We had grilled salmon for our Christmas feast! Yum!

He seems a little young to be doing the finger in his nose thing..... LOL

Wearing his first new outfit from Uncle Russ. And looking very handsome.

Short videos of our Silly Boy

Clark's new fun thing to do with Daddy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-cM7EE2-Yg&feature=youtu.be

He's perfected his clapping:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyFVVhGCgA

10 Months!

So hard to believe we're approaching the 1-year mark so soon!

Our little guy is 10 months now, and is having a blast! Not walking yet, he's still content just crawling around & pulling up. Also, no more teeth yet, just the bottom 2.

But he still loves to eat just about anything!

Enjoying his favorite snack, Cheerios

Here we are at Caleb's promotion Ceremony with our pastor, Jeff. Caleb is officially

"Technical Sgt Larsen" Congratulations Caleb! We're so proud of you!

Clark has always loved to hear his daddy sing.

Being a silly boy :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Clark's first Thanksgiving! We hit the road and spent the long weekend in Kansas city with Judd & Anna. Clark's our little traveling man and did great the whole 7 hour ride! It was a fun visit! Clark had plenty of turkey, stuffing, potatoes and even pumpkin pie!

Sporting his Thanksgiving shirt. It says "I'm stuffed"

Clark enjoying our yummy feast!

Caleb getting ready to attack the turkey. LOL

The food was awesome Anna! Thanks again!

After we were stuffed we headed downtown to see the Christmas lights!

Black Friday we went to "Union Station" and saw all the cool Christmas train displays!

Clark really enjoyed it! Caleb wants to get him a train set already.

Nichole even got to ride one of the trains! Fun!

My little elf helping me decorate! Let the Christmas season begin!

9 Months!

Our little Clark is 9 months now! Wow! He is quite the little mover now, crawling very fast and pulling up on everything! He's also able to "travel" now, moving along the couch holding on and taking steps. We really think he'll be walking very soon! Another milestone that's exciting, yet scary! :-)

These little photo sessions are getting increasingly more difficult with our goofy boy! LOL

Haircut #2! We weren't sure if we wanted to cut his curls cut off right away, but someone mistaken him for a girl got us motivated to get him another haircut. Here's the before picture...

And after! Very handsome boy!

If you lay Clark down for a nap then a few minutes later you hear him giggling, it's probably because he's pulling himself up in his crib. He finds this hilarious!

Happy Halloween

Clark loved his fireman costume!

No candy this year, but maybe next year.

Everyday fun with Clark

Fell asleep while eating dinner one night :-)

He loves his "big boy cup" (he doesn't have the hang of drinking with it yet,

but it's good for him to try)

Daddy's guitar case is the perfect height for him to practice pulling up.

Can't believe he's pulling up already. He'll be a walker very soon!

Pulling up on the coffee table

He likes his books

8 Months!

Our big boy is 8 months now! He's had some big milestones over the last month! Getting good with finger foods, learning new sounds like yaya, and baba, crawling, and he has 2 TEETH! He's crawling so fast now and he's already in to everything, even trying to pull up! Look out Larsen family, Clark's on the move!

Big Boy's 8-month pic!

Taking a walk with Mama

Mowing the lawn with Daddy

Look at those teeth! He's growing so fast!

We have a crawler!

Clark has been working hard on crawling the last couple of weeks, and has finally perfected it just a few days ago! Then the next challenge was me getting it on video, but last night I finally did! Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kLcoEPpxH8

Welcome Fall!

After a terrible hot summer, we are very excited to welcome fall! We're getting ready for cooler temperatures, and Clark is preparing for all the yummy holiday food! He has mastered finger foods very quickly! Clark says "Let's eat!"

I'm learning how to knit! This is my first official hat! He likes it!

Picking up some puffs

While Mommy & Daddy eat dinner he likes to join us at the table and eat too. Here he's having boiled potatoes & carrots.

He loves finger food! He gets so excited when we put it in front of him!

Having some cheerios one morning. I guess it was pretty early and he's still waking up. Haha!

7 months!

Our big goy is 7 months! He seems to be changing every day now! A few milestones for this month are: He's perfected sitting up for long periods of time, getting more verbal using mainly "ma ma", and he can roll both ways easily now (belly to back & back to belly) and he can even get from the laying down position to sitting up in his crib...... but still no teeth!

Family Road Trip!

We took Clark on his first long road trip! We went drove up to Minnesota, then to Missouri, then down to Kansas! He did so great in the car all those hours! Clark's a regular traveling man!

First stop: Omaha Nebraska. We stopped overnight at a hotel with a pool

While Clark liked the pool he REALLY like the hot tub. He practiced his splashing!

6 hours in the car and he's still smiling! Almost to Grandma's!

Playing the piano with Grandma

Walking around on the farm with Grandma

He really enjoyed all the pretty flowers

A beautiful Minnesota morning with Daddy

Clark really liked this swing!

He even enjoyed this box of Cheezeits! And Molly is patiently waiting for him to drop a few

Playing with his cousins

Happy Anniversary! Caleb and I were able to leave Clark with Judd & Anna and spend our Anniversary at this awesome Bed and Breakfast in Kansas City! Our room theme was "Castaway isle". That's the front of the room, with the bed upstairs. It was really neat. Celebrating 5 years together with my amazing man..... it was perfect :-)

Sweet kisses from little Nichole

Clark being extra wiggly & giggly one night with Anna. Very funny.

Adorable! Caleb grew out his goatee during our trip and Clark loved it when he's rub his goatee on his feet! He'd laugh and giggle. It was very cute! Here we are at Micah's in Kansas wrapping up our trip.

Really, really great visits with everyone! Can't wait to do it all again!