Baby's First St. Joseph's Day

Happy St Joseph's Day to all my fellow Polish out there!  For those of you not familiar, it's kinda the Polish equivalent to St Patrick's Day.  It's just not as famous and you wear red!  I think it also has ties to the Feast Day of St Joseph (you know, Mary's husband?  Jesus' earth dad?), but you're going to have to google that one on your own.  My mom (who's 100% Polish) always says wear red on St Joseph's Day, so I do.   Since this little guy is mostly Polish (25%!), it's only fitting that I get him in on the holiday early. 

Cheers!

For Busia (and Grandma C.C. and Grandpa J)

Baby's First St Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Kendi Haus!  Our little leprechaun will be celebrating ALL WEEK, since Mama found so many cute St Patty's Day outfits.  :)

Hope your day is filled with a little luck 'o the Irish!

Slainte!

Happy New Year!

What an amazing year 2014 was for the Kendi Haus!  I can't wait to see what 2015 has in store.  We are working on some plans so stay tuned and fingers crossed!

Cheers!

  

And this is how Gunnar Bear rang in his first new year.  Passed out in style.

Veteran's Day 2014

On Veterans Day, it was gorgeous outside.  We decided to go to a park we had seen while driving around the previous weekend.  I liked this park because it had a huge river right next to it and there was the possibility of seeing manatees!  There were a lot of kids there and someone was setting up the BBQ.  Gunnar was less than amused with his first trip to the park.  I think it was because it was his first time wearing shoes too...

Cheers!

Ready for the park!  Maybe...

First, we tried the straight slide.  Gunnar wasn't impressed.

Then we tried the twisty slide...

We did the bumpy slide a couple times too.

And ended with a walk out onto the dock.

First Halloween

We kicked off Gunnar's first Halloween season by participating in an event at our Babies R Us.  I didn't have his costume ready yet, so he wore a pirate onesie that I though was hilarious.  We got to meet Geoffrey!

The next weekend we went to a "pumpkin patch".  It was the best FLorida had to offer and I had to get my picture.  Little Punkin got a little pumpkin and we had fun posing him with all the pumpkins.  The guy that was running it had his puppy with him, so we got to pet the doggie too.  After the pumpkins, we went strolling around Stuart, cuz it was such a nice day.

This is what Gunnar thought of the Florida pumpkin patch

 

Boardwalk in Stuart

Finally, on Halloween, we went trick-or-treating at Publix for a few and came home to hand out candy to the neighborhood kids.  Its worth it to note that these costumes go great with Chester and Freeman's convict costumes from 2009.  The whole family participated in Cops and Robbers 2014.

Can't wait til next year!  I already have Gunnar Bear's costume figured out!

Cheers!

Baby's First Oktoberfest!

With a last name of Schwemmin, clearly we are German.  I was so excited to take Gunnar to his first Oktoberfest.  Kevin and I go every year and we want Gunnar to appreciate this part of his heritage too.  Someday, we hope to catch the real Oktoberfest in Munich...

Cheers and check out that baby leiderhosen!