December!

Shaun was so impressed with the lights on the Christmas tree! They are just normal multi colored lights, but he loved them! Every time he first saw them, he pointed at the tree and “ooohed” and aaahed” and squealed like crazy. It was really cute. He also wanted to touch the tree a lot, so we had to constantly tell him to not touch it. He pulled it down twice! The second time I caught it before it actually hit the floor. No damage though. We haven’t put our tree up in a few years, so I was excited to have it up again! Last year, being 7 months pregnant, I didn’t want to have any more “chores” than necessary, and we knew it would be the last time we would have the opportunity to not put it up. And the prior 2 years I think, we just weren’t in the mood to put it up. We have still collected our tree ornaments every year though. We buy an ornament every year, with the year on it. This year it is a baby’s first Christmas ornament, with a picture of Shaun in it. So, someday our whole tree will be filled with ornaments from each year of our marriage!

Shaun has started drinking out of a sippy cup. He drinks “juice” in it throughout the day. I say “juice” because it is really water, with just a little bit of juice to give it a little bit of flavor so he will want to drink it. He is really good at drinking from it when lying down. He is still working on tipping it up properly when sitting.

Shaun loves to be on his feet and “walk”. No, he isn’t walking yet on his own, but he wants us to hold his hands and walk around with him. His little feet want to run too! I think we are in big trouble soon. If he still wants to walk around after we stop, he gets all mad until the walking starts again, and this is basically just going round and round the living room. He loves his new race car that he can walk behind, see the pictures linked at the right for December.

We had a good, but unusual Christmas. See the previous blog for all about that.

Happy New Year!!!