Videos, As Promised

Here are two videos from earlier this week. The first one is walking and the second one is...well it is cute. Enjoy!

Busy Busy Busy Busy

Holiday parties, packing, wrapping, picking up the toys, laundry, snow to shovel, we're out of milk and bananas, baking, John needs a haircut, and sending out the last minute Christmas cards. We are busy busy busy busy! I can't believe it has been so long since I've sat down to update!

Anyway, we got a bunch of snow today (quit laughing Grandma - I think we might have 5 inches so far and it is still snowing) which was beautiful. We bundled William up and took him out to play for a few minutes. We were very surprised how well he did. From the beginning, there was snow up his pant legs and in his shoes. But, he kept on going. I think we were all out there for around 10 minutes or so.

The is the super wonderful Big Bird lamp we won at a Christmas party on Friday. I know you all are jealous (and the answer is YES! Of course I traded away something else for the Big Bird Lamp!) It is so COOL!

Mama and William watching the snowflakes. William likes to be outside because we say "Brrrrr...!" and he tries to say it also. Then, he giggles.


First steps in the snow. Checking it out. Please note he is wearing: a onesie, a long sleeved T-Shirt onesie, a pair of flannel overalls, a pair of water resistant wind pants, socks, shoes, a hat, two mittens, a fuzzy hat and a winter coat with hood. Oh yeah, and a diaper.


Helping Mama make snowballs to throw at Daddy...you can see the snowball right above my head.

Crawling in the snow.


Tasting the snow...mmmmm! Yummy!


We kind of held our breath here, I thought he might not like how cold it was. But, he put it further into his mouth!


Hmmmm....

Not sure...


And a big smile before eating the other mitten.


Time for more crawling...if you look carefully, you can see that he is about to lose his mitten which explains the sad look on his face.


Mama to the rescue!

Coming soon as John transfers the video over: new video of William walking and doing this weird mouth thing.

Ice Storm Pictures...and a few more

Working in Santa's workshop is a full time job around here. We're not even close to being ready. Good thing we have another week to be ready...except we have at least 3 different holiday get togethers and a Christmas program to attend. All which require treats and preparation. I love this time of year. I really do - but...I wish I was more on top of things. This time last year, I had it all done and was sitting back and waiting for a baby (okay, maybe not sitting back. Make that obsessively cleaning our house). Anyway, here are some pictures of what we have been up to this last week or so.

Better late than never, the turkeys come to dinner in our backyard.

Icicles hanging off our deck after this weekends ice storm.

Icy trees in our backyard (may need to turn your head)

William trying on my glasses. He always grabs them off my face and tries to put them on. I was just helping him out.

Peek a boo has evolved into this. What fun is this game if you can't see the person peeking at you?

Super funny story: we were playing in the family room when something beeped (oven?). William picked up John's phone and said "Eh?" I don't know that I've laughed so hard ever.

So, after that, we kept making "beep" noises to see if he would pick the phone up again. Turns out: yes he will. And it was cute every darn time.*

* I believe this current cuteness is payback from William for waking me up at 5:30 AM this morning. He went back to sleep, but still.

Swimming with Grandpa

Oh how we love grandpa. He makes funny noises, funny faces, and plays funny games. Every time Grandpa walks into the room, William's face lights up - here comes the FUN guy! As you can see above, they like to hang out and make faces at each other. Finally, here is the swimming video I have been promising you : Grandpa and William!

6-9 Months Slide Show

Well, it is probably about time. I've actually had this almost done since before Thanksgiving. It has just taken me this long to put it up. Still coming up: video of William swimming, photos of our backyard after the ice storm, and a Christmas card preview. I know you're all just sitting on the edge of your seats.

Now, back to Santa's workshop!

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

First Steps

Well, it is official. We have a walking baby...wait! Doesn't that make him a...toddler? I'm not ready....



Anyway, we got some video of him taking steps. He took a lot of them today unassisted. I would say somewhere in the hundreds. However, the video we got wasn't great. We'll try to get more tomorrow to post.

Also coming soon: William's 6-9 month slide show, video of him learning how to dive and a Christmas Card preview. We are busy busy busy busy busy....back to work! Here are some pictures from earlier this week to hold you over until then.

Standing up

I'm not sure what the appeal is with the medicine dropper...but it sure is a fun toy!


Come on to Mama...

Not sure how we feel about this one....

Seems like this is a tradition. I know we did it growing up. But, I really hate waiting in lines. I hate crowds, the stress, ugh. I also don't know if I agree with paying so much money for a few medium quality prints. Ack. So we did it - because I was worried I would regret it forever if we didn't.

William and Santa

The good news is that it only took 3 minutes to do and was relatively painless except for how much this print cost. Of course they do not allow other photography. I handed William over to this guy and William spent one minute just checking Santa out. Then, he cried. We (we being the Santa staff and myself) successfully distracted him with a squeaky reindeer in order to get this half smile. He still isn't totally sure about this whole thing. Neither are we. But! It is done and now I don't have to worry about doing it over the weekend when the mall is crazy. I just wish it didn't have the stupid snowman border thing. Blech. I just wanted a picture of my kid wearing his reindeer sweater sitting on Santa's lap. For a few bucks. Is that too much to ask?

Ick. I guess I better go and find my holiday spirit somewhere around here....