The Osborne Family

For Ali’s 7 month birthday we decided to take her swimming at our family work-out center (LifeTime Fitness). We weren’t exactly sure how she would react to the water but we wanted to get her an early start at swimming. She didn’t do much swimming while we were in the pool but she did do a lot of hanging out, splashing, staring and yelling in excitement. She really seemed to enjoy the water, she didn’t even seem to mind that much when we quicky put her under the water. When she came up she would have a surprised/shocked look on her face that ended up in a smile and more splashing. All-in-all it was a very fun trip that we all enjoyed. I took a couple videos and a few photos. Take a look at all of them and let us know what you think. I removed the sound from the videos as it was very loud in the pool and it wasn’t really possible to hear Ali or Colleen.

Ali’s first swim part 1

Ali’s first swim part 2

2008 seemed to pass by all too quickly. However, this year brought us a little more excitement than years past. We celebrated our first wedding anniversary, Josh celebrated his 30th birthday, our niece Milena turned 1, our good friends Chad and Erin were married, and as you know we celebrated the birth of our daughter Alexandra.

This year we were able to celebrate Christmas and the New Year with our entire family. In early December Colleen and I decided that we needed to take some christmas pictures with Ali. We took a few family pictures with the three of us and then finished up with a few pictures of just Ali. In all we took about 450 pictures. I have posted about 100 of them in this years Christmas gallery. We used a couple of the pictures to create a family Christmas card, we used a couple more as backgrounds for our computers and we also used one or two in a calendar we made for 2009.

We celebrated Christmas this year both in Ohio and in Michigan. In Ohio we celebrated with Grandma and Grandpa Osborne and we also celebrated with Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa Hays and the rest of the Hays family.  In Michigan (at Uncle Mike and Aunt Donna’s house) we celebrated Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa Sullivan, Uncle Mike and Aunt Donna, Ryan and Margie. We had a great time with everyone and Ali had a very nice first Christmas. We have a lot of great pictures and some videos.

While in Michigan we were also able to celebrate the New Year with the Osborne and the Sullivan families which was fun to have everyone together at one time.

Ali has now started to eat rice cereal; however, I would use the term ‘eat’ loosely as she spits out a large portion of each spoonful, leaving us catching the rice in the spoon and attempting to get it back into her mouth. But eventually we manage to get a decent amount in her and down the front of her. If you are interested at all in this process we have a small video of us feeding Ali posted on the Ali Videos page.

We hope your 2008 was great and we wish you a fine 2009.