http://www.themikkelsens.com Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:08:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the end of October Autumn went to her first pumpkin patch. We went with our church Sunday School class called Family Foundations. Everyone in the class has young children like us. We all took a wagon ride to the pumpkin patch and spent some time picking ... http://www.themikkelsens.com/2008/12/09/pumpkin-picking/ I was telling someone just today that Autumn reaches her milestones when we are out on trips. Every time this summer we've been gone she reached a new developmental level. She gained her first two upper teeth when we were gone in Indiana in June and then the ... http://www.themikkelsens.com/2008/09/15/summer-milestones/ I gave Autumn a bath this afternoon. Afterward I started combing in hair. This of course is a difficult task because she is all fidgety and wants the comb too. I gave her the comb and was leaving the room. When I was out of her ... http://www.themikkelsens.com/2008/08/21/comb/ The third times a charm so they say. Jeremy and I have been up to Mary's Peak a couple of times since moving to Corvallis, but today was the first day we were actually able to make it to the peak. The first time we went we got ... http://www.themikkelsens.com/2008/06/22/marys-peak-3/ Last week Autumn experienced her first plane ride as we three traveled to Indiana to visit friends Jeremy went to school with at Purdue. Bob and Jeanette Manning visited us last September and we had so much fun we decided to try to make it a tradition to ... http://www.themikkelsens.com/2008/06/21/vacation/ We are blessed with friends who we are able to swap babysitting duties with. So Friday, one of Jeremy's days off, we had a date and then we babysat for the couple who watched Autumn. We were lucky to be at their house because it was a hot day, ... http://www.themikkelsens.com/2008/05/21/creek-walking-date/ So you may wonder what Jeremy and I are doing now that we have a baby since most of our posts as of late have been of Autumn and her development. We seem to keep just as busy as always. Here is what we have been doing for ... http://www.themikkelsens.com/2008/03/29/post-baby-happenings/ We went for our first hike of the year two weeks ago and Autumn's first of many. We went to North Silver Falls and really enjoyed being out in the cold brisk air. We caught the right hour to go for a hike before the rain came and ... http://www.themikkelsens.com/2008/03/20/mini-hiking-trip/ Autumn sucked on Jeremy's finger two nights ago and he told me her suck felt a little toothy. I thought he meant she was sucking hard. She sucked my finger yesterday and I felt a sharpness to her usual gumminess. I looked in her mouth and sure ... http://www.themikkelsens.com/2008/02/09/first-tooth/ Jeremy and I were quite busy only a few months ago completing Autumn Joy's room. We started the room with a blank slate. The color of the room was cream with a pattern of three rings indented in the walls. The window was aluminum and had no ... http://www.themikkelsens.com/2008/01/20/nursery/