HAPPY EIGHT MONTH BIRTHDAY!!!!

Were spending the day with uncle cole, auntie Blair, and grandpa. We came out right after practice today. Immediatly you wanted down to play. AND for the first time you started walking around the coffee table... Also referred to as crusing in the world of baby development!!! What an exciting milestone for your 8 month BIRTHDAY!

Daddy's last day of Christmas Vacation/ BOOKS

Today was daddys last day of Christmas vacation. We spent the day relaxing and hanging out. We ate lunch with G&G B. And then came home to take a nap. You didnt sleep well last night due to the fact that we stayed at G&G H's last night playing Wii with Auntie blair and uncle cole, G&G until midnight and then didn't get to bed till around one! You fell asleep at their house... But you were up at two And around four something till five thirty!!! Mommy had swim team practice at seven, so I was super sleepy! After our nap you and I played with your new Christmas toys and for the first time ever...you showed interest when I was reading a book to you! You were sitting on my lap and I grabbed a book and started reading. I used my pointer finger to follow the words as I read and you totally listened! The first book was a rubber Winnie The Pooh bath book one of grandma H's friends gave you. The second one was called Pat The Bunny, which was a gift from mommy's fellow ninth grade English teacher friend Christen Diehl. Pat the Bunny has places to touch and smell etc. Throughout the book... You touched when I prompted and felt the fur on the bunny and other things! Even daddy was impressesd and excited that you were showing an interest in books! I've been reading to you since you came into the world! The first book ever was DR. Seuse's Tooth Book! I cried all the was through the book! Clearly the book Wasn't sad at all... I was just overcome with emotions from reading my very own baby a story! We've come a long way from The Tooth Book!

Recap of December/The night before your first Christmas Eve

We just got home from Jack and Shirley's Christmas party. Every year we go to their house to celebrate Christmas...and this was your first one! You received a plush Santa toy and a pink "baby's first Christmas" stocking and stocking hat that says "baby's first Christmas", and a "baby's first Christmas" ornament as well. Tonight was the first night you have shown any real interest in packages...and unwrapping them. Even though Auntie Blair has provided you with "The Twelve Days of Christmas" gifts for you to open each day leading up to tonight...being the final night since we will celebrate Christmas Eve with Grandma and Grandpa Bishop. You final gift was Mercer Mayer's The Night Before Christmas. Mommy and Daddy have both been on vacation the last two days. I have had practice and you have stayed home to sleep with daddy. We have had a great two days doing nothing but watching movies, wrapping gifts, and enjoying the holidays together! Monday night was mommy's Birthday. You and daddy planned a surprise Birthday party for mommy. I got home late from a swim meet. You were sleeping in Grandma Pat's arms in the living room, and G&G B and Grandpa H. were all in the sun room waiting to surprise me! It was a fun way to end my Birthday and I loved it!

 This whole month has been so crazy! We started out with your new tooth the first weekend in December! That Sunday was awful...you cried and fussed all day...your tooth was trying to pop into the world! It finally did sometime during that night because when I picked you up at Sally's on Monday it was shining through your little gums, on the bottom!

The next weekend we travelled to Dallas for one of mommy's best friends, Candace Wang's wedding! You were perfect! You rode in the back with Auntie Blair and the two of you chit chatted and played the whole ride! During the wedding we had to watch from the lobby because you were wanting to yell to hear the echo in the monstrous cathedral! We stayed the night one night in Tulsa, and the night of the wedding in Dallas and then back to Nevada that Sunday. It was so much fun!

The weekend after that was Aunt Brooke's wedding in Carthage, Mo. You were so sick. Mommy had the flu that Thursday and Friday and you were getting it by Saturday, and you had to stay upstairs with Auntie Blair during the wedding. When we got home you threw up all over mommy. We had Christmas with Aunt Brooke and Uncle Darrick on Tuesday of that week. You were too sick to enjoy anything...you fussed the entire time.  Monday you were so bad that I took you to the Dr. and found out you had an ear infection! So, you have been taking your first round of antibiotics the past two weeks.

Last Friday was your first Christmas party at Sally's! You got a ring stacker, a bucket of bath-tub toys, a crinkly chewy yellow toy, and a dolly from Sally! Sally said you all partied all day, you especially adored the crinkly toy. That Saturday mommy, daddy and you went to kc to the plaza to do our Christmas  shopping. We ate Houston's with G&G H. and stayed the night in kc, shopped Sunday and then headed home.

Now, here we are at Christmas! Tomorrow is Christmas Eve! I can't wait to celebrate with you. I have always loved Christmas, and to have the chance to make each of your holidays memorable, is such a dream to me! You are sleeping now in your carrier, we are downstairs enjoying the fire, we've got the sound machine cranked up, and I am watching Christmas movies.

Sorry this recap is so choppy and short...but you are so so so busy, I never get a chance to type :)