July was a great month, full of family visits and fun. Papa Jon started singing with a new Acappella group. Shelly and Gavin came to Colorado to announce their engagement, and we grew lots and lots of carrots.
This was on June 28th at Grandma Arline's birthday in Denver at Andy's house. This was the first time Owen met his cousins...when he was awake and just starting to walk around. Some of he pics of the full cousin group are really great! They were all trying to take care of baby Owen and be his "protector"
This is Owen's first camping trip. We went to my good friend Matthew's wedding in Paonia Colorado and there we camped, hiked and played by the river. Owen loves the tent!
This is when we went to Eldorado Canyon in Boulder to hike around. We had just bought a new baby backpack to carry Owen and it worked great especially since we only paid 10bucks for it at Savers. What a find!
Well we moved into our new apartment in the south of Denver and so far so good. Owen has been so great! He is starting to run, he is just now using double syllable words A- Yi or aunt in Chinese. He seems to understand kisses and hugs which is great. He says bye bye to the toilet water when we flush and tugs on my fingers at 7am every morning to play ring around the rosies... so he can say DOWN and sit down. We grew some carrots in our garden in Niwot and we have a bunch of them in the fridge and he loves them. He eats the fat end and leaves the pointy parts on the floor. We really have a nice bond between the three of us. I love that he wakes up and says baba. Sharing duties has really had its perks.
Angela and I are excited to announce that we have been blessed with our first child Owen Archer Raabe. He was born here in Taipei Saturday March 21st. at 12:30pm. He weighted about 3070gr. (6lb 12oz - almost exactly the same as me ) and he is beautiful and healthy. We will be continuously uploading photos, video and posts onto this blog so you can see..