Thanksgiving 2008

For the first time ever We had Thanksgiving here in Duluth at the Voelker household!! Everything went just perfect; good food, fun games and family.

Lance's parents were up for a visit during the first part of this week. They stayed at the waterpark and of course a good time was had by us all-but espically by Myla. Myla loves to go down some slides, getting splashed by the big bucket of water and being in the Vortex with Mom and Dad. Lance loves the big waterslides and had to force me to go down 1 with him. It was a nice visit with the Voelker grandparents.

My Mom and Dad came up to join our family plus My sister and Brother-in-law for Gobble Gobble day ( that is what Myla was calling it). We ended the evening with a fun time at the hotel pool and even saw a boat go through the canal. Now today a little bit of shopping for the girls and work of course for Lance.

Homebith NYT

A great article on Homebirth. Thanks for sending it my way Jenny.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/garden/13birth.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&emc=eta1

Van 7 weeks old and a crazy 2 yr old

Life is general good here at the Voelker household. Van is getting big now. He sleeps better at night, cooing at us and starting to show an interest in toys. His casting process is going really well. Van will get his 6th cast Tuesday morning. As it looks he will need 2 more cast after tomorrow and then will have a small procedure preformed in his Achilles heel. After that he will then be wearing some feet braces. We are very optimistic and know that things will turn out just fine.

As for Myla, well she is in her "trying 2's". She can be the best little girl and then easily turns into devil Myla. She through her first big tantrum on Saturday morning. It lasted 1 hour because I asked her to pick up her Legos before she got her Milk. Myla screamed and cried, begged for her milk and was rolling around on the floor. Finally she stopped, picked up her legos, I gave her the milk and things were just fine. I won the battle for now.

Van Haven Voelker 6 1/2 weeks old

Van started to smile this week. It was just precious and full of love. So I was able to finally catch a smile on film.

Halloween cities style

We took our first road trip with Van for the Halloween weekend. Van did great in the car-we stocked him up with milk and he sleeps the whole way. So we spent Halloween evening at my parent's house. Myla was a butterfly and Van a pumpkin. And Lance a choir boy from Winona senior high!

Myla had fun trick or treating. But she had more fun passing out candy to all the kids at my parent's house. The kids would come up and say "trick or treat" and Myla would give them a piece of candy and say "trick or treat" back to the kids.