Christmas Time is Here!

It really is! I would have written sooner, but between the boy and I both being in the hospital (We are fine... a case of ALTI for him and Pneumonia for me) the season has been shorter than usual.

But I love the Christmas season, so the past week has been Christmas overload. We almost finished shopping.... we have a couple of gift cards left. The house smells of Christmas trees and cookies and we brought the boy to see Santa. We even dressed him like Santa.

So as you can see... he looks so cute. So we pack him up and take him to the mall the SATURDAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!!! We were crazy. But it worked for us. We got in the long line with everyone else with an infant wanting to see the big man. The line was an hour or so long and when we got up there I thought he was going to lose it because he was hungry and tired.

Instead... he looked at Santa, looked at me and took this picture.

It made my holiday season. I love the Monkey!

When we got home, I noticed something.... his bottom front teeth are working on making an appearance.

Apparently all he wants for Christmas is his two front teeth.

Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah or Happy Kwanzaa!

Monkey - a like list for Month 5

So I am going to start a list of the things my son loves and update it every once in a while....

This month Monkey Loves:

*The Kipper theme song
*Caillou
* Thomas the Train
* Christmas songs
* His new Mater Stuffed animal
*Rasberrys on his belly
*Rasberrys in general
*The Giant Mommy game
*Rolling around on the floor
*The Good Night Book
*Food
*His rubber ducky in the bath.

Mommy's Night Out....

Last night was the first time that I was away from the Monkey all day and by the time I got home he was in bed.

I wasn't a overly huge fan.

Now don't get me wrong, I had a blast. But once I was on my way home... I just wanted to see, hug and kiss my little guy. And he was asleep, so I didn't want to shake the apple cart. So I just watched him sleep.

That being said, I returned home from game night rejuvinated and I know that is something that I sorely needed. A break (somewhat) from being Mommy and a chance to be a geek.

Just because....

Just because I love it so much... A picture a co-worker grabbed at the Employee BBQ in September!

Merry Grinchmas!

See... I love this time of year. The family holidays are coming fast, and I barely have time to breathe before another one is upon us. Christmas season is always super hectic for us (although I am taking steps to change that) so I demand to start the celebrating early as far as one thing is concerned...

The Grinch.

You see I am a huge fan of the cartoon about the big green menace that steals the Who's pudding and steals the roast beast. And it always saddened me that I only had 30 days to watch the hell out of it. Then I realized if I was planning for a holiday, holiday themed entertainment is appropriate.

So I created Grinchmas. Grinchmas is the first somewhat acceptable day that I can watch the Grinch. I placed it on November 1st, and Mr. was not allowed to overly complain.

So last night with childlike glee, I removed the Blu Ray from the shelf and turned to my 5 month old. "Wanna watch the Grinch?" I said excitedly.

As if he understood he started talking his baby speak. I took this as a yes. A diaper/pj change later and we were cuddled together in our rocker, and listening to the familiar chimes of the opening Welcome. From the moment the snow appeared on the screen, my Monkey was entranced. The Grinch came on and he smiled at him and then Max appeared and he was pointing at the screen and getting exited about the doggie. It was too adorable for words.

He loved it. I chalk it up to the general awesomeness, but really, it is probably the music.

My husband, who is a staunch "no Christmas until after Thanksgiving" guy, felt the same glow of happiness that I did. As we were going to bed he said, "Christmas is going to be so much more awesome now that we have the boy!" His enthusiasm made me smile.

That moment.... Me and my son in the rocker, my husband on the couch and the Grinch on tv will live in my memory as long as I live.

Happy Halloween!!!

We got dressed up and went to my hometown Halloween parade. It was fun and our little jedi master was adorable and extremely well behaved!

The cute is strong with this one!



How cute is he???

Tonight we break out the Batman costume, and I am sure I will share the pictures here.

So from our family to yours, have a wonderful, safe and happy Halloween!

And so the transition begins!

Yep. That is my boy with food on his face.....

That means, Saturday I am making (and freezing) some baby food!!! I will be doing posts of all my favorite recipes I am sure!

For the begining though, the doctor wants us to do rice cereal, and next week, oatmeal.

He has taken it like a champ. He even tries to feed himself. I think we will be good at the whole eating thing.