Spring 2009

More candy mom!

Whoo, a new book!

Chocolate bunnies for breakfast!!

Hurry up dad!!!

Checking out my easter basket.

Thanks Easter Bunny!!

Super Axel

I couldn't get these ones to turn...

The Hamblin Gang at the Duluth Zoo

What Monkey are you like?

All smiles for the dirty goats!!

15 month Stat's

Axel went to the doctor today. His check up went great! He had to get 2 shots, but he did pretty well. Here are his Stat's-
weight-19 lbs and 13 oz
height-30 inches
We don't worry about the percentile. He's growing and following his own curve. Axel still doesn't walk yet. I think he's just a cautious little guy and he will do it when he thinks he's ready. He stood up in the middle of the room a couple of times and he climbs on every thing! It amazes me how much he can climb and jump on my furniture but yet he won't walk! Little nerd. Otherwise he continues to walk along things and crawl around like a mad man. Axel is a great eater. He loves veggies. I think he would eat any veggie that I gave him. He really likes green bean, peas and his new favorite are black beans! He also likes fruit and of course any type of pasta. He has 6 teeth now and a ton of blond hair. (thanks uncle Chuck for calling him a girl on Easter!) We have decided not to cut his hair. I'm not sure when we will but not right now. I think he looks cute with all his long blond hair! Axel loves books, taking a bath and playing catch. (we roll a ball to him and he throws/rolls it back to us) He sure is a lot fun!

Oh..I don't know if I've shared with every one but we just moved. We are renting our house in Rochester out-to 4 nurses from Mayo. We have moved to Goodhue now. We are staying at our friend Jason's house. He has a house that is set up like a duplex and we have one half. We are unsure what are plans are but for the time being we are staying at Jason's, which will give us time to figure out what we want. It's really nice-we have 3 bedrooms, 1800 square feet and we are in the country!! (smaller than our house was but I love being able to grill and not have all my neighbors starring at me) I don't think I will ever move back to town. Once we get organized I'd like to have a bon fire party-I'll keep you guys posted.

Easter

Axel had a great Easter. He got a total of 4 Easter baskets! What a soiled little man. Axel woke up to his first basket from the Easter bunny. It had a movie, some finger paints(which should be a good fun messy time!), peeps, a chocolate bunny and some bug's(plastic toys)! To fun, he loved the peeps and really liked his chocolate bunny! He bit the ears off in one bite! Then his dad shared the rest with him-mom didn't even get one bite. :( We all went to Aunt Tracy's house for lunch. She is such an amazing cook. We had pork and beef roasts on the grill. It was super yummy! Axel really liked the strawberry yogurt salad that grandma Ann made. Axel got a Easter basket from grandma Ann that had a new book, socks and candy in it. We had a mini egg hunt for Ethan and Axel. Axel loves to watch Ethan. He wants to try every thing that Ethan does. Luckily Ethan is so sweat and really tolerates Axel playing with his toys and trying to follow him around every where.
After Tracy's we went to my parent's house where the extended Haan Easter was happening. It was nice to see a bunch of family that we don't get to run into very often. (it was the first time that most of my aunts and uncle met Axel.) Axel got 2 basket's at Grandma Hamblin's Easter-one from his grandma and grandpa Hamblin and one from his great Grandma hamblin. Axel thought it was pretty cool getting treats and toys and each place he went to! Grandma Hamblin got him some bubbles-we haven't tried them yet-but I'll let you know how it goes. Great Grandma got Axel a new book and some treat's that he loved. The older kids all got kites for Easter. We went out side to watch and Axel couldn't get enough! He loves to watch older kids and all the stuff they know how to do.
Axel loved being out side for a good part of the day and it helped him sleep through the night! (which he really doesn't do so it was a nice break for mom!) Thanks to all of Axel's Easter bunnies! I have a bunch of pictures that I'll post some time soon.