Guy Smiley

We're just now home and settled in after a long holiday season. After five nights at Laura's parents and four at Craig's parents, we were all pretty happy to be back home. Harrison in particular looks pretty stoked to be back in his domain.

We thought we had a smiley baby on our hands several weeks ago, but we hadn't seen anything. Harrison has a perpetual smile on his face, especially when he sees his mom. He's a regular Bernie Liederkrantz.


Christmas was spent at Grandma and Padre Franz's house. Harrison spent lots of time with his Grandma and his Aunt's and got a nice haul of presents. He also slept so much better than his first trip to their place.


A few days later we headed up to Green Bay to visit with Craig's parents. Harrison got to meet our friend Kelly and Dan's daughter Lydia, who is just over a year old. Despite the age difference, they appeared to hit it off pretty quickly. Lydia was a real sweetie and grabbed some toys for Harrison to play with. Craig and Laura had a great time in GB. Grandma Cindy is very eager to help out, so we got some extra sleep, went out for New Year's Eve, dinner with friends and a movie.


While in GB, Harrison had his first shower. Laura was really brave and took him in the shower with her. Craig was too afraid to try it since he knows that babies are very slippery.


Upon our return home Harrison spent some quality time in his jumpy-thingy-ma-bob. He really seemed to enjoy it, but while he was in it Craig noticed that his son is becoming a ginger.

When Harrison was first born the nurse said his hair was strawberry blond. That seemed to change as soon as his first bath washed away any blood in his hair. This time his hair has no blood in it, it's just lightly red. Craig had a red-haired roommate in college and must've caught the ginger germs from him.

Note: We are not prejudiced against red haired people. Some of our best friends have red hair.