The Heidt Family: Merry Christmas!

After Thanksgiving dinner and a little nap (hey! a guy has to sleep off that turkey!), we joined the Heidt's for their Christmas celebration. In order to celebrate both a first thanksgiving and a first Christmas in one day, we needed to be sure that naptime happened so there would be less chances of a meltdown later on. Luckily for us, keeping the nap schedule the same seemed to make this day a breeze for William. There were a lot of new people and...well, a lot going on. But, he did a great job and was his happy, busy self.

Last time William met his cousins, he thought they were pretty cool. He watched them very carefully. Now that he is bigger, he was so excited to actually play with them (I am not sure how excited they were to have him tagging along)! Here he is playing with the springy door stoppers with his cousin Michael.

Here the two boys are playing again! It was absolutely amazing to watch the bigger kids (and littler ones) interact. They were all so great with William. Ben, in particular was SO incredibly gentle with William! He let William crawl all over him and even poke him in the eye (oops). After the eye poking, I apologized and grabbed William to move him away. Ben just smiled at me and said "Don't worry Aunt Kelly, I'm used to it." You could see what a great big brother he is! Becca was also very gentle with William, although she spent most of the time drooling over Alex and Elena (can you blame her? they are adorable!). However, Michael was the one William wanted to follow and be around all the time. He would just watch him play, walk, talk, eat, etc with amazement. You could just see on William's face how very cool he thought his cousin was.

In front of the Christmas tree! William is wearing his "Baby's 1st Christmas" onesie. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a 1st Christmas shirt in size 18-24 months? I've been looking for one since October! I finally gave up when we came across one on Wednesday morning! How lucky!