tis the season...

We had a wonderful weekend with Derek's family. Marcus & Marsha came in from Port A and Uncle Ryan and Aunt Maggie came from Dallas. Michael especially loved showing off for everyone. He was too sweet this weekend. He was very much into giving hugs to everyone!

Friday night, we all got together for appetizers and games. Then we all got to open one gift, which was a matching Santa shirt for us to wear the next morning.

Michael loved giving everyone their gift...

Then it was his turn to open his present for the night...

And it was a way cool basketball shirt that he had to put on!

Hugs for Aunt Maggie...

Hugs for Grandma...

The next morning is when we all stay in our pj's and have breakfast and presents from Santa.

All these for me??!?! (probably so!)

Our attempt to get a family picture...

We were so excited to get to bring Little Jo over from the nursing home. She had such a great morning. She enjoyed watching Michael and everyone open gifts.

Santa came to Grandma & Granddaddy's house! Actually, it was really from Grandma and Granddaddy! :) Michael got this way cool table and chairs. The top flips over...one side is a chalk board and the other is just the table. He loves to color and spent most of the rest of the weekend coloring!

But I do believe this is his most favorite thing! Grandma and Granddaddy gave Michael a big 'ba-ball gol'. He wouldn't hardly do anything else after he found the ba-ball gol!

He even wanted Little Jo to play with him!

Michael loved playing with everyone, especially Uncle Ryan.

Goodbye kisses to Little Jo...

We had a very fun weekend! We are so blessed to have such wonderful family. Thank you Grandma & Granddaddy, Uncle Marcus & Aunt Marsha, Uncle Ryan & Aunt Maggie and Little Jo for all the love and gifts you give!

ummm, i don't like this guy....

Last Wednesday was Michael's daycare Christmas party. The first order of business was having pictures made with Santa. Ummmm....he didn't so much care for that part! But he did have fun with Kamryn and Josey!

a choo choo, a cookie, hot chocolate and a special someone at the north pole...

Yesterday was a very special day for Michael. A while back, he asks his two favorite people to go on a very special date. They graciously accepted and yesterday was the big day. We all got our pajamas on (and scarves and jackets) and stood in line...


Then the conductor yelled "ALL ABOARD"....



He would not take his eyes off the real live choo choo!!! This boy was in heaven!

Thank you Mr. Conductor for helping us on the train!

And guess who was sitting right in front of us!?! Landon!! He's our good friend!

Michael and his two most favorite people in the world...

Juice & Grandma gave Michael his very first Christmas gift of the season...just like in the story...

A bell!!! Just like the ones from Santa's sleigh!!

Nose kisses for Juice! Thank you Juice for the cool bell!!

Nose kisses for Grandma!! Thank you Grandma for the sleigh bell!!

Checking out the scenery on the way to the North Pole...

Singing and clapping to the music...

Then they brought hot chocolate....his very first taste of hot chocolate ever. He really wasn't in to it! :)

But he was into this sugar cookie!!

look mom!!!! This is an awesome cookie!!!

Don't you just want to get some sugar cookie kisses!??!

Reading the Polar Express story...

The conductor came by and punched an "m" into his ticket. He was so excited!

There sure isn't much snow on the way to the North Pole...

High-fives for the Conductor!

Look who it is!!!! We finally got to the North Pole and Santa is there!!!

Waving to Michael!!

Then the elves got on the choo choo and he couldn't keep his eyes off of them!

Oh my.....who are ya'll looking at?!?!

SANTA!!! He got on the choo choo!!

And the sugar cookie is setting in!!

Is he getting closer? Can you see him??

Oh...he is getting closer!!

So excited to see Santa!!

Hello Santa!!

He gave me a bell...straight of of his sleigh!!!! How cool!!

Thank you Juice & Grandma for a very fun date and my very first time on a real live choo choo!!

videos

I do love my iPhone and it's video camera! It's so handy when I want to capture a quick video of Michael. One day, I will make a DVD of all of them! Here are just a few random ones from the past month...

Michael loves football! He will get the football, run around, fall down and say TOUCHDOWN!!


This weekend, we were heading to Juice & Pa's house. The whole week before, I'd been asking him if he's ready to see Juice and Pa and he'd say their names. Then I'd ask him if he was ready to see Uncle Curt and he'd say 'Selley' and get a huge grin on his face. I should have filmed him during the week, because he'd never say Uncle Curt...only 'Selley'!!! This video, he finally said 'Turt'...


One of his favorite things right now is fire trucks. He loves to sound like a fire truck...


Each night, after supper, we have play time in the floor. Usually, it's daddy/Michael wrestle time and I just watch. Another one of his favorite things to do is jump...


This morning, I could hear Michael talking in his room so I peeked around the corner...he had climbed up in his rocking chair with books and was reading! So dang cute. By the time I got the phone to video him, he had stopped reading, but was still sitting there with books...


Michael was so excited when we put the tree up the other day. Since then, we have really worked on touching things with one finger! He loves to point at things and either say 'was that' (what's that) or I'll asking where something is and he'll say 'riiii there' (right there). His favorite ornaments are the monkeys, helicopter, turtles, snowmen, train and raider red.