Christmas 2009

On the eve of Christmas Eve Houston and I baked cookies for Santa's early arrival and left him a glass of milk to wash them down, I may have been more excited to leave cookies for Santa I felt like a kid again this Christmas with the anticipation of Houston's reaction to all the fun!

I think one of my favorite memories from this Christmas was Houston's reaction to seeing Santa's cookies gone the next morning... His eyes lit up and he whispered "wooowww!"

It figures the one day we want Houston to wake up early he doesn't... Brooks and I were actually waiting on him... I was too excited to sleep. When he rise and shine he was a little groggy for his initial look at the tree and the gifts under it... you could see the wheels turning in his little noggin wondering where all this stuff came from and who it was for... but I have to tell you when he locked eyes with his very own "grill" it was love at first site and to be honest didn't care much about opening his other gifts... McKennon was all smiles and giggles that morning.... Life doesn't get much better than this!

Houston looks a little embarrassed by his Sesame Street big boy underwear Santa left in his stocking!

Daddy was a good boy too this year!

Christmas Eve... all dressed up for church! After Church Martha and Chipper joined us for Dinner.

Christmas day Brooks was Mr. Mom and took the kids to Ginna and Pooky's for the Jones' Christmas. Then on Sunday we concluded our festivities with a visit from Nana, Jason, Charlie and Kelly. By this point Houston was a pro at opening gifts and even had appropriate reactions. While opening one of McKennon's gift he pulled out an outfit and exclaimed "Cuutee!" It was hysterical!

All in All we had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to 2010!!!!

Christmas 2009

Christmas was great and a little scattered this year. I had the pleasure to work Christmas Day (Unfortunately the hospital doesn't close on holidays and you can't put patients on life support on auto pilot) so we changed things up a bit to work around our schedules. We made a special request to Santa to visit our house a night early which worked out great for all of us... Santa was able to lighten his load a little and we were able to enjoy the "Christmas morning" chaos of having a toddler!
These are just a few pics from after decorating the tree and a project I did with Houston. I really want him to learn the true meaning of Christmas and the celebration of Jesus' birth. Although we have talked about it quite a bit I also wanted to learn that it not only about receiving but giving. In the spirit of giving we made homemade ornaments and Houston was able to give them to a couple neighbors and as his personal gift to family members. He was SO proud!!!!

Gingerbread House

Okay so we definetly would not win any awards but it was so much fun making our own homemade gingerbread house as a family... even if we ate more candy than we put on the house! Our little Santa Baby Mckennon even joined in on the fun!

Satterwhites

Every year Brooks and I have made it a tradition to get of Christmas tree from Satterwhites here in Columbia. Houston was able to help with picking out the perfect tree this year and although it was quite chilly that day I think he did a great job!

Chrissy Light!!

Houston's favorite part of this holiday season.... "CHRISSY LIGHTS!!!!"

Sesame Street Live

Houston and I recently had a Mommy/Housy day and went to Sesame Street Live with our friends Jana and Andrew! Since Houston has a "small" obsession for Elmo I thought this would be a great time and it absolutely was a Blast. Our little man sat still during the entire show, waved at all of the characters and clapped after each song. He even shook his little booty to the music!
Enjoying popcorn before the show!

I took this during the performance so I could show you how into it he was!

We had such a great time and it was nice to spend some "alone" time with my little man! Love you Houston!

4 Months!!

Another month has flown by in this sweet baby's life!! She easily can hold her head up and do little baby push ups on her tummy, smiles and coos most of the time, and is quite the little wiggler! She still prefers her Mommy but definitely loves her Daddy, brother and grandparents too! Recently she has become much more laid back however still HATES the car! When I say hates I mean screams when we go anywhere... whether it be 2 minutes away or an hour rest assured she will cry! Other than in the car she rarely fusses unless hungry or tired.
I may be bias but isn't she precious!!

We started cereal this week! What a big girl! She still hasn't decided whether she likes it or not... can you tell? She looks terrified!

Houston of course had to help Sis eat her first bowl of cereal!

Happy 4 month birthday Sweet McKennon!