Hi. Sorry I have not posted any of the Christmas pics yet. Me and Mommy have been a little under the weather lately. I promise to get more posted in the next few days. Until then...here is one of my favorite gifts from Santa...Big Bird!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE!

So, here we are on Christmas Eve. I was so excited to read 'Twas the Night Before Christmas that I thought I would start without Daddy!

But then I decided to wait...so here I am getting all nestled snug in my bed-while Daddy reads to me...


But before all of that-we had to get the cookies ready for Santa...



And don't forget the milk. Daddy is telling me about how Santa comes down the chimney and brings the presents and you can hear me say "no throw"...I want to make sure Santa does not throw my presents down the chimney!

I need to get to sleep now...I hope I will talk to you again tomorrow!

I love play-doh. I have a lot of it so Daddy and I took some time out to play!

Otherwise, not much going on here right now. We are just getting ready for Christmas and Santa. I am still not quite clear on him but I certainly understand presents. I love opening them! Anyway, we will be home this year as I mentioned before because Mommy can't travel anymore. So we are starting some of our own traditions. And we will take lots of pictures and videos to show you all of it!

I received a lot of books for Christmas so I now that I have some free time-I have been doing a lot of reading!

We are also going to be working on the baby's nursery over Christmas. Daddy will be home for a few days and we are going to paint, and decorate the new room. Which also means that I get a whole new room too! We are going to totally re-decorate it and I get a new twin bed. I can't wait to show you pics of all of that too!

Baby brother, or sister

Here are some pictures from my baby brother's or sister's 20 week ultrasound.

And here is mommy at 13 weeks and then again at 26 weeks.

We went up to Chicago this past weekend for Grandpa Wayne's 70th birthday party and to celebrate Christmas. We are not able to go to NJ or IL over Christmas this year-the doctor told Mommy she should not travel past December 25th-since my baby brother or sister will be coming a few short months later. So we celebrated Christmas with my NJ cousins over Thanksgiving and Christmas with my IL cousins last weekend!

Here I am with (l to r) Eva, Thomas, Joey and Cindy enjoying some pizza!
I got to ride in Uncle Frank's "Big Truck"....at least that what I call it. I still walk around our house and say "BIG TRUCK"........ I wish Daddy had one!

Me and my cousin Cindy enjoying a moment looking out the back window.

The chaos we call Christmas-lots of gifts to open!

This is one of my favorite gifts. A big thanks to Aunt Liz for the Elmo Restaurant. This is me and Daddy assembling it.

You can see how much I love Elmo's Restaurant in this video...

Grandma Judy and Grandpa Wayne gave me another one of my favorite gifts-a vacuum! I got right to work this morning! Thanks again Grandma Judy and Grandpa Wayne

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We sure did! My cousins from New Jersey came for a vist and we had a great time! I decided I would relax a little in my bear chair before they arrive...
This was Thanksiving Eve pasta dinner. We had a little kids table so we could all eat together.

You would think this would be me and Daddy napping after the big feast-but we took a snooze before we had dinner. I guess we needed the rest to prepare ourselves for the turkey...

This is an upper level view of the kids table on Thanksgiving day. As you can tell, we were all so into the meal that we could not take the time to look up and smile for the camera!

Me sharing my bear chair with my buddy Brendan.

All the cousins-Danny, me, Brendan and Alexandra enjoying some time watching Elmo. We had such a fun visit and I am so glad they came. I will not get to see them at Christmas because Mommy is not allowed to travel from the end of December until my baby sister or brother arrives in March. So thank you to my cousins and Uncle Dan and Aunt Alana for driving from NJ to see us!

Hi there! Monday was Mommy's birthday so I helped Daddy make a cake for her. I was the official taste-tester...
I have become a master tower builder. I love stacking cans and boxes to see how high I can get them. This is one of my better towers!

A new move I learned and Mommy caught on camera...

We have had beautiful weather here lately-in the mid 70's! One of my new favorite things to do is hang out in the trees (with Daddy's help of course).

Me and Daddy just hanging out and talking on one of those warm nights...

Daddy makes me laugh and laugh as you can see in this video....

Grandma Mary and Grandpa Ed Visit

Grandma Mary and Grandpa Ed came for a visit at the end of October. Unfortunately, that is when I had the fever, but I think we all still had a good time!

We visited the scarecrow festival at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. This is me and Daddy coming down the steps after looking at one of the scarecrows.
Then we headed to the pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins for our house...there were so many to choose from!

Grandpa Ed was helping me choose...

and Mommy was helping me choose too...

Then we took time out for a family photo!

Later, back at the house, Grandma, Grandpa and I reviewed all the pictures we had taken-I like looking at pics on the camera...especially of me!

We also visited the Georgia Aquarium...where I met Deepo. I loved him-I couldn't get enough of him! We ran ito him several times and each time I had to go up to him and say hi or give him a hug!

Soooooo many fish to look at!

And I can't forget to mention my first lunch at The Varsity. Grandma and Grandpa have seen it mentioned on tv and it is famous in Atlanta so I had to go for my first visit. The hot dog was delicious!

Thanks to Grandma Mary and Grandpa Ed for visiting! Sorry I was a little under the weather and maybe even a little cranky...but I am still so gald you came to see me, Mommy and Daddy-I had a great time!

I was a little under the weather a week ago. This is me and Mommy relaxing and watching my Elmo DVD. I had a fever of 103.5 and was just not feeling good-it looks like it ended up being a touch of the flu.. I am much better now and I know I promised you an update since I had my 18 month check-up with Dr. Harrell so here it is:

I weigh in at 23 lb 15 oz

and I am 32 1/4 in tall.

So I put on a few ounces and about an inch since my 15 month visit. Dr. Harrell said I looked good and I was talking up a storm so she said I sounded good too.

I have some pictures to show you from our visit with Grandma Mary and Grandpa Ed when they were here. And I also will update you on my baby sister/brother. We got some new pictures of her/him too. So stay tuned.....

I hope you all had a happy and safe Halloween! I had a blast! This was the first time I went Trick or Treating-and I had so much fun!

I got all suited up in my Cookie Monster outfit, grabbed my pumpkin and was ready to go ( I had my game face on)!

Mommy and me next to Daddy's scary jack-o-lantern

Just thought I would share a pic of me and my friend Addison dressed in our costumes. This was taken a couple of weeks ago. She was Tinkerbell.

Daddy and I headed down the driveway on our way to candy heaven!

The long walk back to the house after collecting my candy. We hung out at the house waiting by the door to see all the other kids in their costumes. I have never seen so many people come to our door-we almost ran out of candy (and Mommy bought A LOT of candy). So that tells you how many kids came by. I loved my first Halloween experience!

Here is the long-awaited debut of my Halloween video...hope you like it!

Well, these are the last of the vacation pictures. Wednesday was my first time on a boat and then Thursday-Saturday we spent at the Hilton in Longboat where Mommy and Daddy got married. We spent most of our time in the pool or at the beach, which you will see from these pics. Oh, and we were on vacation with Aunt Liz and Ben and Don and Erin-but I did not include the pics with them. They are all in thier swimsuits and I thought they may not like me sharing those kinds of pics on the web!

Me and Daddy-the "captains" of the boat.
I got my vest on and waved to let everyone know I was ready to go!

At the beach in Longboat-me and Daddy waiting or the waves.

Me and Mommy working on the sandcastle-although it looks like I am just supervising at this point!

I decided to just dig a hole and get into the sand...

Me and Mommy walking across the bridge that she she walked across to meet Daddy on their wedding day!

Thanks for looking at my vacation pics. I hope you enjoyed them! I will update soon with my new stats from the pediatrician. I had my 18 month appt on Monday and everything was good!

Tuesday of vacation was zoo day. We went to the Tampa Zoo which as voted one of the best by Parents magazine...and boy was that true. We had a great time!
We saw giraffes and zebras...I guess we interrupted this guy's lunch time!

We saw manatees, penguins, rays and lots of other water animals

And we saw elephants. We saw so many different animals but I decided to condense it down to the best for all of you to see!

Another one of my "firsts" on this trip was a carousel ride. I know you can't really tell by my face but I LOVED IT. I wanted to go "again, again, again" it was so much fun!