Week 24 - Special Father's Day Edition!

Gabe kicked off his first Father's Day weekend with a "Donuts for Dads" event at Colin's daycare. Colin got to sit on his dad's lap and show him all of the toys and babies he plays with every day. And the teachers told Gabe about how much fun Colin had when another special father in his life - his grandfather McGinnis - visited Colin at daycare a couple weeks ago and made him laugh on the rocking chair. The teachers also said they finally figured out who Colin looks like - not mom, not dad, but Grandpa McGinnis! After all the fun was over, Colin gave his dad a special Father's Day card to take to work with him... The Kruse boys sure made the most of Father's Day weekend. They did everything together! Colin spent lots of time laughing at all the silly things his daddy did...

And Colin also started reading the paper, just like his daddy does every weekend...

Besides spending lots of time with his dad, Colin made all kinds of new silly faces, including a "pig nose" look through the crib bars...

Colin is still lots of fun to tickle!

Colin's a simple man. He knows what he likes and he likes what he knows - milk, sleep and watching dogs. Why mess with a good thing and add pears to the mix? Do something stupid like that, and you meet this guy:

The Pear Trilogy For more fascinating details of how the pear experience played out for Colin and his parents, please enjoy some pear-hating footage. The first bite...

Okay, so that wasn't too pretty. Maybe the pears were too cold? In Part II, we try to warm them up...is he opening his mouth for more or gagging?? Watch and see...

Daddy Kruse steps in - does he have a magical way to trick this baby into eating pears??

One other development this week was that Gabe and I managed to squeeze into the normal rat race routine the baking of a belly cake for Anne's baby shower. It wasn't quite as easy as the "good old days" when we could cram the entire process into one night, but we spread it out over a few nights and pulled it off!

And finally, a video of Colin having fun in the bath!