Step Out!

As most of you know, Trishna is a type 1 diabetic. On Saturday, October 4, 2008, our family will be participating in the American Diabetes Association Step Out Walk to Fight Diabetes. We would love to have any of our friends and family join us for the walk. It is a 3 mile walk. It begins at 10:00AM at the Cox Wheeler Heart and Vascular Center across from Cox South. You can register online (click here) or at 8:30am the day of the walk. Afterward, lunch will be provided by Pasta Express.

You can also sponsor a walker if you would like to make a donation to the American Diabetes Association. Trishna, Garrin, Matthew, and Dayla Rosebrough have all registered for the walk. You can go to the link here if you would like to sponsor one of us: Sponsor a Walker.

6 Month Pictures

We had Garrin's six month pictures taken today. He will be six months old in four days--my how time flies! It was the first time that we had his pictures professionally taken. Someone at school had told us about a new picture studio that was in Springfield. It is a chain of studios called Portrait Innovations. They were very reasonably priced and had no sitting fee so we thought we would try them out. It was a great experience! We had fun trying to make him laugh and smile. We ended up with some great shots once they added some special features and cropped the pictures. We are excited to share them with you! They gave us a CD of all our images, but we chose to share only a few. Enjoy!

"Hey, Hey, We're the Monkeys" and "The Karate Kid"

It seems as though this past weekend has flown by. We have had fun this weekend. We spent Friday night at home. In our neighborhood we have a water retention area that is full of yellow wild flowers. Every time we passed by, we thought that we needed to take a family picture among the flowers. After dinner on Friday, we threw on some clothes and decided to have a family photo shoot. We were going to try to just use our timer on the camera, but luckily Grammy Jeanie and Papa Steve stopped by as we were heading down the street. We have some really good pictures together! You can see them scrolling on the right side of the blog.

On Saturday morning we decided to make our way to the mall. Trishna needed to get a baby gift for a friend and we thought it would be a good time to look for a Halloween costume for Garrin. We couldn't find anything that was cute and reasonablly priced. As we were about to leave the mall, we decided to try Old Navy. We found the cutest monkey costume in Garrin's size. He makes a pretty cute monkey!




On Saturday evening, Papa D and Nana D took Garrin and Matt out to eat while Trishna was out with some friends. Garrin was in a great mood. Papa D could actually look and touch Garrin without him screaming. By the end of the evening, Garrin and Papa D had bonded. You can see the video of the 5 month old Karate Kid and his trainer.

Dickerson Park Zoo

Garrin had his first trip to the Dickerson Park Zoo! It was a dreary day, but we couldn't pass up McDonald's $1 day. Despite the sprinkles, we managed to spend a couple hours walking around the zoo. Mom and Garrin had fun feeding the giraffes crackers. We also saw lions, and tigers, and bears--oh my! You can view the slideshow below to see our adventures. Garrin ended his day asleep on dad's shoulder as we walked to the car. It must have been too much excitement!

Garrin's Week

Garrin had a big week this week. After a few weeks of rice cereal, it was on to the baby food. Garrin had his first vegetable--squash. Mom and dad were so excited to see him eating baby food, that they fed him three fourths of the container in one sitting. Needless to say, he is loving his squash. He has finished his entire container of squash every day this week. Yum! Yum! This weekend will be trying carrots. Oh to be 5 months old and excited about vegetables!

Oh what fun it is to play with mommy! Garrin loves to play with his blocks. Friday after dinner Garrin was having fun with mommy. Garrin is all of the place trying to scoot and roll toward his toys. Here is a video of Garrin playing with his blocks!