Fall Pics

Splunking?

Last weekend we decided to spend some time outdoors and finally visit the Maquoketa Caves. The caves range in size from alcoves in the cliffs to full caves with trails going under the roads and hibernating bats. The cave on the left, is the Teegy cave, small enough only for the most adventurous of babies. A couple of times there were caves that Tyson went in by himself (with strangers). The first, the Up and Down cave had a entrance up about 3 feet off the ground, where you dropped four feet into a hole, and crawled through into a room with a 7' ceiling. off to one side was another crawlspace leading up to a hold overlooking the entrance. Next is Ice Cave, where the temperature dropped about 20 degrees when you went inside, which felt really good. As you walked through a large cavern there was a tunnel to walk through leading to a small room. tyson was very disappointed by the graffiti, and Tegan was quite scared of the darkness when we turned out the flashlights. Next is Dancehall, the largest cave at the park. Here Tyson found a pathway that lead to a lookout above where we were standing in the cave. We had a great time, and look forward to when we can go back.

Halloween

New Dos

Orange belt

First birthday

So Tegan is now one. She had her checkup yesterday, where the doctor said she is doing great, but is a little on the small side. So we are supposed to put butter, cheese, whipped cream and frosting on everything she eats now to try to increase her caloric intake. But as you can see, she doesn't seem to mind the frosting. Other than the weight she is doing well, and probably pretty soon she will be walking. On the talking side she definitely says hi, bye, up, and sometimes dada, mama, dog, copper, Tyson. Like her brother, once she starts talking, she will probably never stop.

Forms

The Testing

  The commentary provided should explain what he is doing.

By popular request

Matt found it very amusing that in these videos, Tyson is the main subject and Tegan provides the color commentary. Opposite of the ones below.

sorry this last one is so fuzzy. I am not quite sure what happened.

the dance

why you should call more often

Gotta hold it somewhere

Hockey boy

Tonight Tyson started his "learn to play hockey" class. We view it as a "learn to ice skate with pads on so you don't hurt yourself" class. Despite how often he fell down, and the laying on the ice and/or pounding the ice with his fists after falling down one too many times (who does that sound like??) he did a really good job. He skated off the ice all by himself, didn't throw a fit, or come off too early, and he even said he sort of enjoyed himself. Yeah! Hopefully by the end of the 8 weeks he will be a great ice skater. 

Black and Blue

Tegan with her first fat lip. Tyson was trying to get her to crawl faster by pushing her back as she moved across the floor, resulting in slamming her face into the floor. Oh well. It's pretty much gone by now.

Pagwai I the movie

Here you can actually see Tyson performing his winning form. He got 1st place in his group of 8 year old yellow belts, and he believes, do to the fact that he was the only yellow belt with his medal, that he got first among all yellow belts as well. He did a great job and we are very proud of him.

Tae Kwon Do TournamentThe

So here are the pictures from the Tournament last night. From the bottom - up, Tyson is standing after he performed his form, waiting for the judges score. Next, he is accepting his 1st place medal from the Black Belt Judge. Next, he and the other 8 year old yellow belts are comparing their medals, and finally, him showing off his hardware.

Do you see what i see?

Now make sure that your sound is turned up so that you can hear the many vocal stylings of Miss Teegy and the giggling back up singers.

Tegan thinking about possibly beginning to crawl

This is the trial run for the video feeds, so let me know what you think.

Christmas part 2

Christmas part 1

tegan - future airline pilot