Mommy's "helper"

Stephen decided my rags needed reorganizing today. He was having a great time.

Random pictures

Here's a few random pictures of our cute little boy.

He loves playing with his soccer ball.

Hanging outside with Daddy

Notice the gift bow in his right hand. That's still left from Christmas.

Let it snow!

We got about 10" of snow on December 22. We brought a bowl of it in to play with. Stephen loved it! I gave him one of his spoons as well. He stirred it, touched it, tasted it, and had a great time.

This was right after he took a bite.

Christmas 2011

We enjoyed a very nice Christmas this year. We got our tree the Sunday before Christmas. Stephen loved the pretty lights and ornaments. We had to remind him several times not to touch the tree, overall, he did a good job of just looking at it.

Admiring the lights

Our tree with the tree skirt I made this year

We met Grandma Rose and Aunt Anne for Mass on Christmas morning and then went to Grandma's house for breakfast. After that we went back home and opened our presents. Stephen was very excited to see all the presents under the tree when he got up in the morning. He did a pretty good job of opening his gifts. His favorites were the bows. There's still one he plays with and carries around with him.

By the last gift, Stephen has resorted to opening it laying down. 

Steve had to go on a treasure hunt for his last gift.

Stephen with his gifts from Mom and Dad

We took it easy all afternoon. Then we headed back to Grandma Rose's house for round 2. We had a lovely dinner cooked by Aunt Anne. Stephen got to open more fun gifts.

Hanging with Grandma Rose

The next evening I did pictures with his Christmas pajamas. Stephen likes to make the reindeer on his feet dance.

Merry Christmas!

Photo credit: Linda D.    Photoshop effects: Megan B.

Christmas goodies

I love baking cookies and making sweets at Christmas time. I had a list of Christmas goodies that I wanted to make this year, especially since I didn't get any made last year. Today I crossed the last one off my list! I have a couple plates ready to deliver to neighbors and will take a big tray to our Christmas dinner. The rest are for us!

(clockwise from top left) Spritz cookies, almond bark pretzels, fudge, peanut butter balls, puppy chow

A step in the right direction

Stephen took 3 steps on his own yesterday! I'm sure he'll be off to the races soon.