The Waldron Family

OK peoples, stop sending me toys. All I need is common, everyday household items and I happy as little clam. Little clams fairly happy i told. All they do is sit in the sand and filter little gross things through the muck. Sounds good to me. Wonder if little clams have laundry baskets? Anyway, for first birthday i would like clothespins and extension cords. Maybe a magazine or two, and some tupperware. Doesn't even need to be brand name tupperware. you can get the cheapy Glad ones and I ecstatic.

Hello, this is Bryce. I also have bold new skills that have been captured on film. I climb. I very stealthy when I climb. Sometimes mommy and daddy don't even know until i on third or fourth step. I like ninja. Only mommy keep dressing me like baseball player. Whatever that is. I climb to top of stairs and go into sis's room and chew on her bed. Cold bars feel very good on my little teefs. It makes a clanky sound. Don't tell anyone, but damn, my daddy gots a big ass. It practically take up whole screen.

OK, it's not really a flip, but Austyn has learned her roundoff back handspring on the tumble track, which is a long skinny trampoline, and she is really proud of it, as are her parents and little brother. Here it is. Pretty cool, eh?

Bryce loves to read books before bed. That is silly book, Mommy. A daisy chain of hairstyling. Daddy sat out of this one, cause he gots no hair to style. Here's me standing on some rocks with Bryce in a backpack. See, Kim came with us to Sugarloaf. She looks cold. It wasn't all that cold. Could it be she is sad because no one in her family (Her biological family that is) or her friends called her on her birthday? It's possible. She was raised catholic, so she's teaching me to pour on the guilt. Will it work? We'll see.

We got tired of sitting in the house on such a nice day, so we drove to Sugarloaf Mountain (technically a monadnock, but i digress) and went for a nice, quick hike. Here is Daddy and Me with our new (slightly used) Kelty Elite. Our friend Emmet has one, and it looked so much more comfortable than the cheap-o one that Daddy had that we figured we had to get one ourselves. Daddy says it carries the weight on his hips much better than the old one. Whatever that means. Then they went and put these stupid leg warmers on me. They did keep my legs nice and warm though. Where did they get those things from anyway? Who in their right mind wears leg warmers? Must be some weird west coast hippie thing. That's what you get from eating too much tofu. This is a view from one of the overlooks that is either Virginia, or West Virginia, we're not quite sure. Sure is pretty though. That's the summit of Sugarloaf. Daddy didn't think his knees could handle the trail straight up ...

Bryce likes to scream now. Here he is yelling with Daddy. Rusty and Daddy's Boy.

So Austyn is a competitive cheerleader. Which means no football or basketball games, but a lot of stunting and time at places very far from home. Austyn seems to love it and will probably continue next year. Her team is called Dream Allstars and her squad is known as Vision. Austyn is in this sea of girls. Last row second from the right. Sometimes its hard to tell its her she looks so different with the "stage make-up" and fake hair. Yes she has to cover up her gorgeous hair with a fake hair piece. It has to be sewn into her hair. The only plus is that we don't have to curl her hair which used to take up to 2 hours to do. Here she is after competing looking very happy. Her squad got second at this comptetion. This is very early on Saturday before the make-up application. Remeber girls "you can never wear enough blue eye shadow". I only wish this wasn't the actual mantra in cheerleading makeup application. Austyn showing off her flexibility in a po...

Bryce stalks the elusive "felinus suburbius" in it's natural habitat. Fortunately for the "lukus superiorius" as this particular felinus is known, the mighty hunter is easily distracted by shiny things that make neat sounds.

Hopefully this will work

Bryce really enjoyed his first solid food. Here he is checking out and eating a Zwiebeck Cracker. He became quite messy.

We went to the Oneida casino for New Year's Eve. The kids really enjoyed the chocolate foutain. Can we say sugar shock? a lovely ice sculpture The Waldron Crew Austyn and Alisa in front of the "Tree of Peace" by Calder Bryce really like riding in the sled, unfortunately his hood would not stay up.

Bryce with cousin Danny and Aunt Alisa DOG PILE!! Fun with the cousins "What do I do with this?" Damian has possessed my baby! Now he has an insatiable lust for others foods and SOULS!!!!!!!!!!!

Is that Santa or a really messy baby? Austyn sporting some patriotic hair and little bro. "Daddy what is it? I want to chew on it!" Too cute! Outside Grandma and Grandpa Waldron's after skiing. We brought a bear home with us.

We have more pictures of the holiday, but have not yet uploaded them to the computer, so more to come soon. Here are the few so far. Here we are at Rick and Laura's on Christmas day. It was quite busy, but a lot of fun. Bryce and Austyn got a lot of nice stuff (she's not pictured because she was with her mom). Thanks to everyone who were very generous to the kids this year. Austyn the ski bunny. This is right before she went over a jump and caught some major air. Unfortunately it was more than she could handle and she wiped out. She was laughing and crying at the same time. Here are Kim and Austyn. You can see the pretty view behind them, which is one of the finger lakes... not sure which one. Bryce is ready for the big game against the Cowboys and he's feeling very pretty with his bow.

The physical therapist at school asked us to film Bryce's gross motor milestones so she would have a point of reference for typical physical development. We filmed this in Novemeber and I never got around to putting it up. And like his BFF Emmet the remote is the ultimate motivator.

Bryce met Santa on Monday and did great. He smiled and made Santa laugh. Unfortunately the picture lady did not capture the smile and my camera didn't either, but we did get a good one of him checking Santa out.

It snowed all day yesterday and was actually cold enough to accumulate. We got about 3 inches. Austyn was a little more excited about the snow than Bryce, but Bryce did like to watch the snow fall. We heard a few squeels from the backseat on our way home from daycare as the snow fell. We were lucky enough to have a two hour delay and we all slept in (7:45 for Bryce!). Kind of liking the snow, but still unsure. Bryce really does not enjoy the snow suit since he can't use his hands, but he does like his "pretty shoesies". Why did Daddy push me over? I don't want to make a snow angel. Get me out of here. Austyn enjoying an early morning breakfast. Snow a la bush. "Crazy!"

Daycare was closed for a few days because Ms. Kathleen's son dislocated his elbow (ouch!). So Rusty and the boy got to play outside. This is Bryce's first time in the backpack. Daddy, why am I in this contraption? And why did you dress me like a dork? My socks clash with my pants and don't get me started on my jacket! Well I guess the swing is okay, even if it is a little big for me.

Bryce, Lilly and Harrison at Elsa and Ana's birthday party. Bryce showing off his mad sitting skills while supporting his favorite team. The Redskins actually won on this day. Is that bar-b-cue that Bryce is enjoying? No he is drinking prunes out of a custard cup. Mmmm prunes. Why are we doing this? I have no clue, Rusty felt it was a good idea. It sure was funny.