More Baby Pics (per Momma's request)

The binky worked for about a month... but, now we're onto the fingers and the occasional thumb. This is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing that now Anthony has been sleeping through the night, a curse in that we struggled with both Tatum and Greta in getting them to stop later on. We'll see how we do with AJ!





AJ's eyes are indeed blue. We hope that they stay that way, but we have heard that they can change for up to a year. For now, we just enjoy having a blue-eyed baby that is the son of a hazel-eyed Dad and a brown-eyed Mom. This pic was from our Good Friday hike...








Another Good Friday hike pic. Christy thought his eyes were especially beautiful today and she requested that I include more pics of him for you to view. Hope you enjoy these as much as us!







For us, this is a "wow" picture. We love this little guy and we're just very thankful that God allows us to capture little pictures like this to look at as AJ grows up. Blue eyes, rosy cheeks... it doesn't get much better!








Introducing... Antonio Dynamite! The boy strikes the Napolean Dynamite pose more than any other. Head turned to the side, eyes down... He's got it down pat. He won't hardly look at you if you're holding him. If this continues, Ben & Robin are to blame as they introduced us to Napolean Dynamite! I'm just hoping that he avoids the 'fro and the attitude!

Happy Easter!

Happy Resurrection Sunday from the Geiser's! Here's a picture from today in our "Easter" best! We celebrated Easter with Grandpa and Grandma Geiser this year and had a great time. Thank God for the hope that He continually gives us all year round.





Anthony stretching out in his sleep. That's a relaxed baby!









On Good Friday, Christy and I got a date together and took the opportunity to go for a walk at a local park. Anthony James came along for the ride. We had a great time walking around and enjoying the spring weather.









One lone Easter egg hunt picture from today. Greta was pretty proud of her catch for the day. Lots of candy to be consumed until the next "candy" holiday, which isn't until Halloween I believe! Thanks be to God as we have had plenty of Christmas candy, Valentine's Day candy and just candy, candy, candy. What happened to the days of just having candy once in a while as a treat?






Tatum and Greta continue to take dance, which leads us to this picture. One of the benefits of the dance class is that we are treated to mini-shows on a regular basis. You'll all have to come over and watch the show some time!

The Feeding of the Boy

Some pics of the girls feeding AJ with a bottle. We're working on the bottle so that Christy and I can go to a Brian Regan concert on March 30. Christy's parents will be watching all 3 kids while we go to see this comedian. (Get Brian Regan Live if you can find it - it's great!) Tatum and Greta both had some troubles learning to eat from a bottle, but Lil' Anthony had NO problem accepting milk from a bottle! He sucked it down like a pro...

The last picture is from Tatum's party. As one of the silly pictures we took, we trie to get the girls to spell out Tatum's name. Can you see it? I accidently cut off part of the M (my apologies to Alyssa!). As a point of reference, Tatum is the "A" and Greta makes up the first leg of the "M". Just another example of the crazyness that ensues with a bunch of little girls running around hopped up on cake and soda!

Skating Party Pics

Tatum celebrated her 8th birthday with about 20 or so friends at the Webb City Skateland. Tatum is definitely in her element when she is among her friends. She loves to talk and loves to spend time with all her friends that she's met at Awana and church.





It's a dark picture, but Tatum was the star of the show for a bit today as she had to go to the center of the rink by herself and show everyone how old she is. We all had a great time skating. Christy and I commented how we get more couple skates now than we ever did as a kid! I skated with like 10 girls or more today! I even got to skate with Christy! It was almost like I was in junior high, except that I actually skated with someone! :)






Blowing out the candles on her "dog" themed cake. She wanted a chocolate cake with caramel, toffee and whipped icing. It's actually the same recipe that was used for our wedding cake - so some of you might actually know what it tastes like!




These are the friends and cousins invited to the after bash party at the house. We feasted on pizza and generally ran around like mad. This is the girls' rock star pose. They all had a great time and I have never heard so much talking, giggling and squealing!





All the girls in the tree in the front yard. Tatum was actually worn out after today and had nearly lost her voice. This is one of the few times that I had actually seen her get worn out to the point of just wanting to go to bed - even though there were still fun things to do.
We'll try to keep posting new stuff up on the blog for those of you dying for more information. I might even get Christy trained on how to do this thing! Give us a comment and let us know you've been here!

Video of Tatum's Dance Party

Tatum's Birthday Bash was a smashing success with 15 kids skating their way to a good time this afternoon. After the skating party, Tatum had a few friends over and among many other activities, they danced. Enjoy the show...

A few more shots including the first haircut and the other exciting news from Joplin...








A second Chick-fila opened up in town. AJ's showing his support for the joint even in his sleep! Seriously, Joplin needs more to do... That Chick-fila is crazy busy all the time.

Enjoy the pics!

We are Still Alive!!!

Tatum with Anthony. Christy has yet to learn how to blog and frankly with Greta's birthday, Valentine's Day, my birthday and Tatum's birthday this week, she's been too busy to learn. She's currently downstairs working on the finishing touches to Tatum's birthday cake for her skating party. It should be a great time of fun for Tatum as around 10 or so other little girls are joining her for her party.



Here's Greta with AJ. Our girls are in love with our new little man in the house. However, the boy has some competition now... For Tatum's birthday, we bought her a guinea pig named Patty. Tatum says it's the best gift that she has ever received! Of course, with Tatum, everyday is the best day ever and everything is the best always! You have to love living with such a positive person. We only hope to never mess her great attitude up!


Here's Christy, Tatum, Greta and Anthony on Valentine's Day. They went over to our good friends' (the Coleman's) house for a Valentine's Party. I was in the throes of an audit so I was not there for the party. But, Christy had a nice little romantic dinner at home.




Anthony Times 2.


He looks thrilled to be with me.






One of the many grins of Anthony James...

We'll try to update this blog more regularly. Busy season is beginning to wrap up for me at BKD so I should have more time to write.

We are also making it "free" to the public in that we'll make it where you don't have to log in to see our pics.