Here Comes Santa Claus

Atticus' first encounter with Santa went beautifully! And yes, the beard is REAL!

Role Model

Blue is teaching Atticus to bark at innocent bystandards from the window. Atticus pays close attention to Blue's form and technique. Atticus then applies what he has learned. Blue's 'wax on, wax off' teachings have paid off well, to our neighbors delight!

Walking Tall

Funny Faces

This kid loves to make faces and loves bath time even more. He's learned to crawl into the tub now! He's looking more and more like Ben in his baby pictures every day.

Big Boy

Here are his 8 1/2 month old pictures. He is a total ham in front of the camera. I wonder where he gets that from...










Standing up nice and tall. He is happy as long as he can stand-up on something!








We were shocked that he sat down on the suitcase long enough to take a picture much less smile for the camera!

Happy Halloween!

Atticus will be a little chicken for Halloween this year. He's so cute I just wnat to eat him!

The Cheese Stands Alone

Atticus is so eager to move around on his own that he started to stand up by himself this week, at 8 months old! He doesn't hold on to anything and can stand there for almost 1 minute without falling now. You can tell he is trying to will his feet to move so that he can walk, but he hasn't figured that part out yet, thankfully!

Happy as a Clam

Looking so cool in his trucker hat!
Hanging out with dad on the weekend

Dedicated at Church

Atticus was dedicated at church on September 28th.
All of Atticus' aunts and uncles made it to the dedication ceremony.
We took up half the stage!

Say Cheese!

This Summer in Pictures

Atticus spent the summer climbing through the exersaucer,











Climbing into the bookcase and

Acquiring a taste for fine literature!

One Happy Boy!

Atticus ventured away from rice cereal for the first time today and entered the world of vegetables. Sweet potatoes to be exact. We are preparing for the spoon...
Opening wide for the delivery...
Thinking about this new flavor of orange mushy food...
Accepting it and not spitting it out, but not totally sold on this new food concept.

Atticus and Ben laying by the pool catching some rays and enticing the ladies, mainly mommy.

Funny Guy

Atticus is attempting to eat the cord on the camera while I'm taking a picture of him!

"What?!" Funny face for a funny kid.

Friends for Life

Atticus Uriah, Braeden Thomas and August Christopher got together for the first time today. Kathy went to nursing school with their parents. Little do the boys know they were deemed to be friends before they were even born!

Braeden and August are already arm wrestling like old pals!

Sears Model

Here's Mr. Sears Model himself! He's wearing an Arizona Diamondback onesie to show his team pride! Go D-Backs!!!

Trying Rice Cereal

Here's Atticus before trying rice cereal for the first time. He doesn't appear to be too excited about this new experience.The bib is on we are now ready...
Not too sure about this new medium of food delivery.
He looks scared doesn't he?
I swear we are feeding him cereal not sand. His facial expression says otherwise!
He ended up wearing more cereal than eating any of it on his first attempt. If at first you don't succeed try, try again...

Sitting Up

Atticus has started to sit up with some assitance. However, he is not entirely fond of the process as you can tell.

Go Sun Devils!

Here's our little ASU Sun Devils fan. He is also a Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks fan. He just doesn't know it yet! :-)

New Mug Shots

Sleeping at Grandma Chapman's house with his new quilt. We have a picture of Atticus in this pose on one of the ultrasounds before he was born! Atticus is Army strong!
Gotta love the basketball bling-bling binky!
One happy boy! He moves too fast for the camera, hence the blurry image.