Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

My first Christmas was very happy. It all started with a fun dinner at Pa and Lolo's house in Buffalo Valley, and then I had a Christmas party at school, and then Christmas Eve at Uncle Dickey's, and then Christmas Day at Annie & Ru's and Neena's house. Boy, were we busy! We did a lot of partying for Christmas.

Mom and Dad stayed home from work so we could spend time together between Christmas and New Year's. We had so much fun. We went shopping, took naps, posed for a lot of pictures, and played, played, PLAYED with all my new toys! Some of my favorites - the exersaucer Santa brought me, the Sing and Go Choo from Neena with a lion that came from Pa and Lolo, and a little Alligator xylophone my cousin Bryce gave me. It might be my favorite toy ever! I love to make music. I practice almost every day so one day I can show Bryce how good I am. He was so nice to give me such a cool present.

Of course, the best part of Christmas and New Year's was getting to see all my family. I'm lucky to have so many people to love me!


Here are a few pictures from my first holiday season. Happy New Year!












Me and Dad at Pa's House














Me in Pa's Santa hat












Don't you like my Exersaucer?!












I was so tired after jumping and playing on Christmas morning, I had to take a nap before going to Annie and Ru's!!!












Isn't Cousin Elle so pretty? Here we are in our matching Christmas suits.

My hat's too big. Hmmm... wonder if Elle's hat might fit better.

Whatever, Leyton! This is MY pink hat!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Me (5 months), Bryce (7), Savannah (1), Silas (5), Aidan (2)

My first Thanksgiving was lots of fun. We went to Neena's house for lunch, where everyone got to eat food but me. I did get to have a big bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, so I wasn't too hungry. Those sweet potatoes sure looked good. Mom says Neena is a really good cook and that next year I can eat whatever I want.

After lunch I got to spend time playing with my cousins, who are all very nice to me. We were having fun until Aunt Dana made us pose for group pictures. Savannah didn't like it at all, and we never could get everyone to look at the same camera at the same time. I still think this is a nice shot of all of us.

Teething

I now have two bottom teeth to show off. Even though the doctor told mom I wouldn't teethe until I was about 7 months old, I showed him! The last week of October I did a lot of fussing and chewing on my hands, and then one Saturday morning, Mom found a tiny little tooth crowning in my bottom gums. I got a second tooth just two weeks later. Now all I can do is chew on everything I can get my hands on - blankets, dad's finger, my binky, and boy is this teething ring yummy. Can't wait to use these teeth to chew on some food! I'm going to keep practicing for now !

Party time

My cousin Savannah turned one on November 10, and we celebrated at McDonald's. I was excited to attend my first real birthday party. It was lots of fun, but I was disappointed I wasn't allowed to have any birthday cake. It looked so good, and Savannah kept taunting me with all that yummy looking icing. I can't WAIT to have my own cake.... and eat it, too! Cousin Bryce, can I have bite, please?

Look - I can hold this!

This week I figured out how I can hold things with both hands! I'm so excited my hands work like this, because this bottle is amazing. Now, if I could just figure out how to get some water out of here.

Halloween

For Halloween, mom and dad dressed me as a baby caterpillar. Mom likes to joke that she spent $25 on my costume, had to wait excitedly for 30 days to put me in it, and that I wore it for a total of 7 minutes before I wanted to get out of it! But she says the pictures are priceless. Do you agree?

Homecoming Week

We celebrated Gallatin's homecoming last week at day care, and my teachers had me dress up in a different themed outfits Wednesday through Friday. Wednesday was silly day, and boy was I silly!













On Thursday, we wore our favorite sports team outfit. Look at me in my Titans gear!










And on Friday, we wore Green and Gold in honor of the Green Wave. I wore all gold! It was cold outside on Friday, so I had to wear my new fleece jacket.

Fall is here!

Mommy and Daddy took me to Gentry Farm in Franklin on Saturday. We went with my cousins Bryce, Silas, Aidan and Savannah, and Uncle Cody, Aunt Dana and Uncle John and Neena! We had a big time.

Even though I wasn't big enough to ride the tire swings like the other boys, I still had fun following them through the corn maze and watching them play with corn in the grain troughs. I also enjoyed looking in on the chickens and homing pigeons in their coops. Birds sure are dirty!

I especially liked picking out our pumpkins. We bought a big pumpkin for Daddy, a medium sized pumpkin for Mommy, and a little baby one for me! I can't wait to go to Gentry Farm again next year when I can keep up with all my cousins.