Gabe turned Two!

Gabe had a great birthday party! We had 8 of his friends over, including his best friends from daycare. All the kids had a lot of fun. Gabe was so pumped up on sugar, excitement, and presents that he did not nap at all. Finally at 9pm, Pete was exhausted, but Gabe was still bouncing off the walls, so Pete put Gabe in his crib. As soon as Gabe went horizontal his eyes rolled back into his head and he was asleep. Whew!


Jo Jo, Janik, Michael, and Gabe


Gabe and Janik


Gabe, Janik, and Anna

Summer 2007

We had a great summer! We spent a week with the extended Crandall clan up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in a rented house on a lake. Gabe had a lot of fun with his cousins, in the water, and boating around the lake. We all went to the Land of Make Believe, a great amusement park for little kids.



Gabe also had some local beach days. The most recent time we went he started calling out for "More sand, more water!" before we had even parked the car. Of course, playing in back yard in the water can be plenty fun when it's hot too!



At the tail end of the summer we took Gabe to the Land of Make Believe, another little kid's amusement park, and with the added benefit of a water park. Gabe could not get enough of the water. We took him on one water slide that was over his age level but by far his favorite. Each time he came sliding out of the enclosed water slide he would be faced a different direction, sometimes face down. As soon as Natascha would get him standing up and out of the water he would yell "Again! Again!". We did this about 15 times. There were other children years older who were much more timid...