Happy 3 Month Old Baby Boy

Blake just turned 3 months on the 22nd and is really starting to get his own personality He is such a happy baby, now of course, he has his moments but really he's happy happy. We were playing on the couch the other night after Brady went to bed and it was just the 2 of us (that doesn't happen much). He was giggling and cooing and just having such a great time. It makes me want to pick him up and just squeeze him. When I was pregnant with him, I would have thoughts about what if I don't love him as much as Brady or what if I love him more, well it's not possible. They are 2 totally different people and your heart somehow finds just as much room for the 2nd as the 1st. They are amazing boys and I couldn't ask for better ones. Sure I'm biased and there are times Brady is just bad but I have to remember he is 2 1/2 and is going to get that way. Here are a few pictures of Blakes and my adventure in laughing

Merry Christmas

Christmas 2008.

This was by far the best Christmas I've had in a long time. Now I really miss the "old" Christmas's where we would go to Grandma and Grandpa's and the entire family was there, but I'm learning that things change and I have to learn to change with them. So with that reality I gave in and had a really good time. The day started with Santa yelling Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas and everyone getting out of bed and heading downstairs (after going potty of course, can't skip that step with a potty trained 2 year old). First thing Brady got was his suckers. He would have been fine with just those suckers. He showed everyone and wanted to eat them right away. I let him have one and I think the other one is still at Vama (Grandma) and Pop's. He really enjoyed the present process and wanted them all to be his but he did a very good job helping Vama pass out the gifts. Now it was very hard to keep tract of what everyone got Brady because there were presents everywhere and Vama wasn't stopping to let us see what everyone got. I told her next year we have to be a bit more organized as I have 4 people's gifts to keep track of so we can say proper thank you's.

Now Blake, all of 2 months old, didn't care about Christmas much at all. Jason held him or he was in his swing but he did great. Never getting too upset and only time he did get upset was before he ate.

Everyone got great gifts and had such a great time.

Jason got a Shortwave Radio, 2-way Radios and speakers for his XM radio (he loves radios). The only thing he asked me for that I didn't get him was books. He loves biography books about Presidents like Andrew Jackson and Teddy Rosevelt, boring to me but he loves that stuff. He got a Router as you can see and a bunch of other stuff. I got pots and pans from Mom and Dad, lotions, a new camera, Guitar Hero III and Mom and Dad got us a Tom Tom. I got lots of other great gifts too, lots of kitchen stuff which I love. Barr and Cassie were there all day and we even got a game or 2 of Farkle in. All in all it was a great great day.

Santa visit

Brady was so excited this year about Christmas, guess that comes with being 2. So leading up to Christmas we asked him what he wanted, he asked for a Bulldozer and a Sucker, and then if he asked for anything I told him he had to talk to Santa about that. So as Christmas got closer every time he asked for something and I said not right now, he would follow up with "I better talk Santa bout that." It was the cuttest thing ever. Well with all this talk about Santa we decided we had to make the trip to the mall to see "Santa". We got there on December 23 at noon thinking he was there all day. Well we were wrong and he wouldn't be there until 3pm. So we had to make the decision to stay at the mall and waste 3 hours or go home and come back. We decided to eat lunch and waste the 3 hours so we could be first in line and get it done. Blake slept almost the entire time and Brady did pretty good, as good as a 2 year old can do in the mall for 3 hours. About 2:40 Jason, Brady and Blake headed for Santa, I was at Victoria's Secret, not a store a boy wants to be in. Well it was a good thing we did as as soon as Jason got in line everyone else followed and by the time I got there, 2:45ish, the line was about 20 kids long and got longer every minute we stood there. So Santa got there and as you can see by the picture, not the best Santa I've ever seen, and Brady walked right up to him and sat on his lap and began telling Santa what he wanted. He sat there for a long time talking to Santa. After it was all over he got a set of paper antlers and thought it was the coolest thing ever. For whatever reason I didn't get a picture of him with the antlers on. We decided not to have Blake sit on his lap this year as he was asleep and really didn't need to talk to Santa, everyone knows babies are good.