Year #1

Wilder's #1! Well, here at B3 we knew this all along. Anyway, it's been quite a year to say the least. From the original Boxing Day Miracle, to your first sugar buzz (see the Pictures-Pictures-Pictures! link for birthday pics), to this very moment as you lie sound asleep: everything has been a first. Now you get to have 'firsts' even though your first year has passed. A privilege granted to all that inevitably becomes more infrequent as time passes.

It's been amazing getting to know you this year and watch you grow. You cannot imagine how excited we are to see what happens during year 2! Happy birthday sweet boy.

Christmas

Wilder had a fantastic 1st Christmas! It's very convenient that his most favorite thing is to rip pieces of paper into smaller pieces of paper. He probably would have been even happier if (under the layers of wrapping paper) his actual gifts were more paper.

Thanks to all the family and friends that made it special.

Walker, Kitchen Ranger

This is some unfinished business here. Wilder officially began walking in the first week of December, while I was in DC on a work trip. Here he is a month ago:


Here he is now:

b3.2

You may be asking yourself, why b3.2? The answer may be: what took so long? This is obvious, and perhaps not so obvious. The obvious is that our sweet little boy is now a year old and is already working hard on his second year in this world. The not so obvious is that we've been fortunate to upgrade to a new computer that is not slow, riddled with disease, etc.

You'll see that along with the switch in the look of B3 there have been some changes in how the links are displayed. On the right hand column of your screen there are a series of links. To see many more pictures (and video) please feel free to click on the link Pictures-Pictures-Pictures under the "Related B3 Content" heading which will bring you to our Picasa website. The "Our Friends" heading lists, well all the blogs for our friends that do blogs. Feel free to check out their sites. Finally, the "Links" heading has our job websites and some of our favorite websites. This will be added to as we go along. You never know, you might like these websites too.

Thanks for checking out b3(.2) and have a prosperous 2009!

Santa's cool

So we've managed to find Santa, along with a Christmas tree with Grandma and Grandpa Schmidt. If by "Ga!" he means he wants a tricycle, I guess he'll have to wait as he just started walking...one thing at a time! We thought this festive picture was very cute! If that wasnt enough, Wilder has indeed decided to walk his first steps this last week. They all said "it would go by fast" but its hit at hyperspeed! Wilder was only walking but at most 10 steps, and quite tentatively at that, last Monday and only a week later he was running circles around our kitchen island (video coming soon to a theatre near you)! Its 90% "Yes I can!" and 10% ability. He's always had it in him.

Happy Holidays!

Eye of the Tiger

-Playing with the pumpkin

-1st jack-o-lantern: bottle + thumb

-Time to trick and/or treat

-Roarrrr

-Just in case you confused Wilder with someone else

Test Flight