Christmas Morning video

For those true blog fans I have uploaded the video from Christmas morning. It is about 9 mins long and includes Christian first seeing his toys on Christmas morning, his reaction to opening more presents and his parent struggling to take his toys out of the packaging.

Dump truck races

Since Christmas we have new sport around our house. Dump truck races. This is where Christian finds an interested party and then he grabs his smaller dump truck and then points the interested party to the larger dump truck. Then he says "Ready, set GO!" and you race. His biggest competition is his Dad, but he has also raced with Aunt Sassy and Mommmie.

Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM OUR FAMILY !!!!!!!!!

Here is a pictoral of our Christmas

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve at our house started with Christian getting his bath early along with his breathing treatment. He was put into his warm PJs and prepped for a "Ride" in his stroller around our neighborhood to look at Christmas Lights. We all dressed warm and checked out some of the Christmas Lights around our neighborhood. He enjoyed the ride around to look at the lights and picked out Santa several times and said "Ho Ho Ho". Once we got back we tried to get a good Christmas Picture of the family, but Christian was not in the mood. He wanted to take the pictures and kept messing with the camera. Then it was off to bed for Christian so Santa would come visit our house.




Once Christian was asleep we decided to get Memaw and DooDaddy's present to Christian put together. It is a great little piano and was not hard to put together. Christian loves to play pianos so we expect this to be a big hit in the morning.

Gammy and the Quilt

Here is a little video from when we all went to visit her and Uncle Mark at Thanksgiving. We gave her a quilt made by Gran (Teri's Mom). It was shaped like a Christmas tree with presents at the bottom that were drawn by Abby. In the Christmas tree were hand prints and foot prints of all 3 of Gammy's great grandchildren.

Daddy drop off update 12/19/2007

Christian didn't want to go to school this morning.. As usual he stalled and stalled until Daddy picked him up and put him in the car. As soon as I got him he started the ear and nose game. (Editor's note: This is a new game for Christian. He grabs your nose or ears and says "NOSE" or "EARS" kind of like when grown ups pretend to get little kiddos nose and say "I got your nose". ) It was pretty funny. Then we sang Jingle Bells for a bit. Once at school he "Handed me his lunch to carry to class". I thought I had him trained to take his own lunch from the car to the lunch bin, but lately he just picks it up and says "Have it". We took different paths to the door. He went to the steps by the baby room and I took the long route. But we met up at the door and headed into class where Roxy was hanging out. After putting his lunch up he walked around the room with me and I said good bye. He then turned and walked into the baby room to say hello to everyone.

Love,
Chris

Trail of Lights 2007

For about nine years Krystal and I have been going to see the Trail of Lights. It started out with just us two girls and has now grown. Our tradition now includes our husbands and friends. This is Elise and Christian's second year to see the Trail of Lights together. It is like their yearly "date". Their birthday are just 3 days apart.



The night didn't start very well for Christian. He was not happy sitting in his stroller for the lights. I can't really blame him. There were lots of people and that made it hard for him to see the lights from his lower prespective. He wanted out and he wanted out bad. I carried him some and Daddy carried him some. That still didn't make him happy either. He wanted to run. But that wasn't an option with so many people around.

Our entire group was scattered along the trail until we finally reunited for the last half of the walk. By then Elise was taking turns being carried by Mommy and Daddy too and Christian was strapped into his stroller...notice that he was STRAPPED in...he went in kicking and screaming. He perked up a little and just sat and watched the lights.

Then we went over to see the Zilker Tree. There were less people and we could stay in one place for a while. This is were Christian had the most fun. I bought some kettle corn, which both Christian and I loved. The kettle corn kept Christian from running away and he really enjoyed dancing and running around under the christmas lights. Christian and I spun around under the tree looking at lights. Christian put on quite the show dancing around under the lights. I guess he was enjoying the freedom finally.

The other fun thing that happened was that Christian added another saying to our game "The _____ says _____." Christian and I added "What does Daddy say?" Answer "BUDGET!"

He woke up this morning saying "Daddy says....budget" (that just makes me smile)

Jingle Bells

Sorry for the lack of posts to the blog lately, but the primary blogger (Me) has been super busy and a little sick too. But here is something fun for you.

You can't see anything really, but this is video we took on our way home Friday night. It is Christian singing Jingle Bells. He did is all by himself on the way home. Chris and I didn't even realize he knew the song, but he does thanks to daycare. Notice how he draws out "Allllll the way". We tried to get him to sing it over and over again on the way home. We had so much fun with him singing it. Hopefully our next song will be "I want a Hippotamus for Christmas"

Weekend fun

We had a fun weekend visit with lots of family. Memaw and DoDaddy came to visit for the weekend and that is always fun. We went to Marble Falls to visit Gran, Pa, Memaw's Aunt Phyllis and Cousin Glenna. Then we had brunch on Sunday with Cousin Susie. So lots of visiting with lots of family. Christian had a fun time watching the Christmas train at Gran and Pa's house. Gran and Pa think that it is coming home to our house after Christmas, but we will have to find the room first.

Then on Sunday after we had all had our afternoon (and much needed) naps. We went for a little walk and then we all helped with christmas lights for the house. We are almost done with the lights and almost ready for Santa to come visit.

Sleepy Boy

"Mom, just 5 more minutes!!!! "....this is what I get to wake up most every morning. such a sleepy boy.

Dumptrucks and puppy

Christian's new favorite thing to do with Daddy is to look at Dumptrucks on the internet.

He also looks really cute in his puppy dog towel too.