Schierer Space

Today Nate declared that pants are not required if you’re wearing your winter hat.

He would not allow me to put his pants back on after I changes his diaper this afternoon.

Happy Halloween everybody! Last Saturday the family attended a Halloween party. We all went in costume. I had to find a theme to go around Nate’s already purchased puppy costume, so Chris also went as a dog, and I went as the animal control officer. We won the prize for “Best Family Costume”!

There are some new pictures up in the gallery of Nate in his Halloween puppy costume. Enjoy!

and that means that Nate’s photographic growth chart has been updated! There are also some new photos in the 6th Month album.

I got some pictures posted the other day, but I hadn’t been able to find a few minutes to write up an actual post. Since Nate seems content to watch his fish for a few minutes, I’ll try and give you a real update.

We’ve been keeping quite busy lately. At the end of September we took a trip down to Ithaca to visit Liz and Eric Woods, and attend the Ithaca apple harvest festival. We haven’t got any of those pictures up yet, though. We had a good time, and Nate did really well during the 90 minute drive.

Columbus Day weekend Chris’ parents came out for a visit, and we went to the Lafayette apple festival. The main purpose for going is to fill up on the best apple fritters ever. Nate loves to be outside and around people. As long as he’s in the baby bjorn, he’s quite content. After the festival, we went for a short hike to Tinker Falls. Unfortunately it was only a dribble because of the lack of rain we got this summer. We’ll have to go back in the spring. On Sunday we took a trip out to Hamilton and had lunch at the Colgate Inn. Very nice place, and we’ll definitely be going back.

Last weekend Chris, Nate and I participated in the Crop Walk in Caz. Thanks to everyone who donated to the cause. It was a 3 mile walk around the town. We pushed Nate in the stroller because neither one of us was particularly in the mood to carry him. He did surprisingly well, and slept for about half of the walk. We thought for sure he was going to be fussy after 5 minutes, which is what usually happens.

Nate is doing quite well. He has mastered rolling over from his back to his stomach, which has caused problems at night. He doesn’t like to be on his stomach (and hasn’t learned to roll back over) so he wakes up screaming. He’s also starting to learn balance so that he can sit on his own. Right now he can go for 30 seconds or so, as long as he doesn’t think too hard about it. The good news is that he thinks its really funny when he falls over on his face (so far we’re only sitting on the bed, so its soft when he falls).

Well the fish have lost their appeal, so I need to go.

There are some new pictures up today. If I can find some more time, I’ll post some others.

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Nate had his 4 month check-up yesterday. He’s doing really well. He was 16 lbs, 14 oz and 26.25 in. That’s about 90% for both weight and length. He had to have 4 vaccine shots (two in each leg) so he was pretty cranky yesterday afternoon, but other than that he’s perfectly healthy. I’ve updated his photographic growth chart with today’s picture.

The Schierer family has decided to walk in the 2007 Cazenovia CROP Walk, to help raise money for hunger relief. The walk is on October 14th, and most people usually dress in Halloween costumes, so it should be a lot of fun.

We have set a fund raising goal of $100. Would you consider making a small donation to help us reach our goal? If you would like to contribute, you can do so online at our fund raising page.

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Thanks for your help.

Edit: Thanks for all your donations. Since we quickly reached our goal, I have increased it to $150.

There are some new pictures of Nate up in the gallery for those who are interested.