Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas! This was John's first Christmas. He used to not mind hats, but now he is not so sure about them. He was taking off his Santa hat.



John was enjoying being outside at his grandparents house. He is wearing his new, cool New Balance tennis shoes that his MiMi bought him.







John was opening one of his presents Christmas morning. He got a lot of presents from family, friends, and Santa. (His parents gave him presents at home.)





John fit perfectly in MiMi's sink for his baths.



A relaxing New Years Eve:

Frosty the Snowman

There is a contest for the best door decorations in our apartment complex. There will be 3 winners. Each winner will get a gift card for $100 to the mall. If we don't win, I had fun putting the snowman together and John had fun trying to eat the scraps of the foam board.



John is pulling up on everything these days and taking steps holding on. He has gotten very confident at holding on without hands for 4 or 5 seconds.

John turned 9 months yesterday.

I took John to the mall again to try and see if he would happily sit on Santa's lap. He still did not like Santa. I don't think I will try again until next year. When we were leaving Santa, I saw this painted scene and decided to sit John in front of it. I thought it was cute.

John has been enjoying feeding himself banana puffs.

It turns out John can fall asleep just about anywhere.....even his highchair. He doesn't want to sleep in his bed, but the bathtub or highchair will do just fine.