Greetings 2011!

Happy New Year from the Keller Family!

We began the month with a visit from Grandma Sturgeon, who came to play with us for a week, while Mommy spent time looking at daycare centers for the fall. It was fun to have time to play together, listen to stories in the rocking chair, and we got to go out to eat at Clyde's for a nice dinner - our first outing to a restaurant! And we got to Skype with Grandpa and cousins Katie and Sam! Somehow, we managed to not get any photos that week - But we had a wonderful visit with Grandma, and can't wait to visit again!

January has been quite variable here, sometimes frigid, in the single digits; sometimes sunny and in the high 40's. This has made for many indoor days with time spent mall-walking in the mornings, as well as several nice afternoon walks to Vienna.

On Martin Luther King Day, Mom and Dad got very brave and took the family out to dinner by themselves! We've been having fun visiting with our Grandmas and Grandpas on Skype. And we've had some fun visits with friends!

Most exciting was the Thundersnow storm at the end of the month, which dropped two inches per hour of heavy, wet snow, which in just a few hours took out our power for a one day and two nights. It got a little chilly, but it was fun sleeping in Mommy and Daddy's room for a couple of nights, and we got to take another outing for dinner to get warmed up!

We turned five months old this month (which makes us about 3 months old developmentally, according to our due date of the 21st)! Katharine just turned 11 pounds and Christopher is 14 pounds (how's that for starting at 3 pounds and 3 pounds, 5 ounces!?)

We've been smiling all the time, and have started treating Mom and Dad to some laughs, giggles, squeals, and lots of other fun sounds we're learning to make.

We're both working out in the activity gym a lot too - Christopher is great at push ups on his tummy, and Katharine is loving her standing practice! And of course we're both practicing to get really good at everything. We are grabbing ahold of things, and Christopher loves to chew on his Whoozit (you'll see it in our pictures!).


Although Mommy and Daddy have not been getting a lot of photos of "events" lately, they have been spending time practicing with their cool new camera, which has been taking really nice pictures of all our play times. You can see their handiwork on our January photo gallery. Here's the link, so you can copy and paste it into your browser.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/sharing/shareRedirectSwitchBoard.jsp?token=2952099910105%3A1417876962&sourceId=533754321803&cm_mmc=eMail-_-Share-_-Photos-_-Sharee

*Also... if you haven't checked the photo gallery for December in a while, there are a few really sweet new photos of the kids at Christmas that Aunt Linda shared with us. You can see those at the end of the December gallery - just go back to the December post for the link.

Enjoy!

Love,

Katharine and Christopher