Christmas!

We flew to California for a week for Christmas. Graham met a lot of the Pardos for the first time. Here are a few pics!

Here's Graham opening a few presents!

The Pardos celebrating on Christmas Eve.

Ace and Graham playing with some Christmas presents.

Charlotte enjoying her gifts!

We went to the Santa Barbara Zoo...it was Graham's first zoo visit...and he loved it!

We also we to the Santa Monica Pier. It was a beautiful day and except for paying $20 for two cold hamburgers we had a great day! It was great seeing Jen, Brent and Leif and hanging out with Jack, Kadee, Charlotte and Ace.

Graham shopping the day after Christmas!

Rice Cereal

This is actually from the end of November. This was his first go at rice cereal. Since these pics he's gotten a lot better at baby food. He LOVES sweet potatoes, prunes, peas, carrots, apples and bananas.

Cancun, Mexico - International Baby of Mystery, Part 2

Okay, so its been a month since we posted. December was a heck of a month with work, travel, class, finals and Christmas. Anyway, time to catch up.

Here are some more pics from our trip to Mexico.

This is the beach at Akumal. We went snorkling and saw several giant turtles...as you can see its beautiful.

Here is the bride, Kerry, the other two Pincock girls, Shannon and Leigh, Mom and a sweet Mariachi band.

Graham being spoiled by his cousin, Stephanie.

One of my favorite pics from the trip.

Here is another great one of Graham being spoiled.

Ben and Kerry with Graham.

International Baby of Mystery!

The last two days of the trip we ran out of the formula that we brought from the States. Thanks to supreme international savy we were able to locate some of the local variety...fortunately Montezuma didn't take revenge.

More exploring....what a great trip. We can't wait to go back!

Cancun, Mexico- International Baby of Mystery, Part 1

Last week was a week full of firsts for Graham....and none of them were his first Thanksgiving. Fact is we really didn't really celebrate Thanksgiving. Instead we celebrated with Shannon's sister's wedding in Mexico. Kerry Pincock and Ben King decided to get married in Cancun and we all spent a week basking in the Mexican sun.

Here is Graham and Shannon on Graham's first flight. He was amazing. He ate during take off and landing so there were no pressurization issues. The rest of the time he pretty much slept.


We went to an all-inclusive resort just over an hour outside of Cancun. It was called the Grand Sirenis and it was fantastic! Highly recommended. Here is Graham dipping his toes at the beach at the resort....

...and in the pool.


Another first for Graham was his first taste of something other than boobies or formula. First official real food: BANANA
Here is a video of the experience!



Jumping death spiders and flying piranhas? That's not enough to keep Graham from his first trek through the jungle!



Graham is such the explorer...not being content in the confines of our resort he took us out to hang out at some ancient Mayan ruins...his first ancient Mayan ruins expedition!

More pics and videos to follow!

Happy Birthday Grandpa Pincock!

Graham Talking!

These were just taken a few moments ago....we thought they were so cute we wanted to post them right away!

Marathon and the Thompsons and Harringtons

Two weeks ago we went up to Washington, D.C. for the Marine Corps Marathon. I was running it with Dave Harrington so we got to meet up with the Harrington family and meet Graham Harrington. Graham H. was born four days after Graham Pardo. While with the Harringtons we refer to them as G1 (G. Pardo) and G2 (G. Harrington).

While there we also got to meet up with the Thompsons, my sponsor family from the Naval Academy. This was the first time getting to meet their "grandson".

Here is G1 playing with his tongue. He loves rolling it around in his mouth and then sticking his fingers in there.



Here is Rene with G1. Graham is wearing one of my favorite shirts of his.

After some convincing we were able to get Caroline to hold her cousin.

Here are Lynn and Daniel...Graham seems fascinated by Daniel.

Neither G1 (right) or G2 (left) seem very happy about their car seats.

Here are our race fans! Daniel getting ready to support Dave.

Dave and I in our super sweet race outfits!

I have more pics at home and will try to post later tonight.

Pre-Halloween Phot Shoot

For his first Halloween, Graham couldn't decide what he wanted to be a Pee-in-the-Pod or a Teddy Bear (Teddy Graham). To help decide we had a pre-Halloween photo shoot. Enjoy!

First Camping Trip!

Oh, about three weeks ago we took Graham on his first camping trip. Nothing too hardcore- we'll save backpacking at altitude for next summer; just some relaxing car camping. Of course we had to take Madawi and we also got to hang out with Leigh, Kaden and Connor. Sorry for the delay; enjoy the pics!

Morning strecth!

Graham loves cuddles from Auntie Leigh.

On a big hike around the top of a mountain!

Family pic.

Pumpkin Patch (Part 2)

Graham and Daddy on Graham's first train ride. Graham wasn't even scared...Daddy was a little scared.


Kaden, Connor and Hope on the "Cool Bus".

At the pumpkin patch!

While Mommy isn't looking, loving the fingers!

Just so flippin' cute!

Here he is in his pumpkin outfit...not as many of these turned out but I'll find more.