Christmas 2009

Merry Christmas! What a difference a year makes. This Christmas Jacob has enjoyed taking
ornaments off the Christmas tree, putting his toys ON the Christmas tree, tearing open presents and boxes, eating chocolate from his Advent calendar, pointing to the tree every morning all month saying words that we've determined mean "tree" and "light," and wearing his Santa/candy cane pajamas and hat. Well, not so much the hat.

The hits this Christmas included a backpack that he either loved wearing or couldn't figure out how to take off(?) and a toy kitchen. Looks like someone'll be helping us make dinner in the new year.Mewaw traveled from MD for Christmas morning and Stacey, Jared and Lyle came over for Christmas dinner.

Then Aunt Nancy, Uncle Steve, and the boys finally arrived back in town and we celebrated with them too.

Memaw and her boys. What a fun Christmas weekend.

Jacob just turned 16 months this weekend and is really starting to talk and copy things that we do. It's fun to watch him process words and actions and do his best to repeat. Just in the last few days he's said things that might mean "belly button, truck, Elmo, banana, book, A-B-C, hot, and block." He also shakes his finger and copies me saying "uh uh uh."
UH OH!!

Christmakuh

This weekend it snowed. A lot.

But reports of a record-breaking storm heading up the mid-Atlantic didn't deter the Shermans and Wulfows from coming together to celebrate Christmakuh in Maryland. We trimmed the tree, opened Hanukkah presents, ate too much, and shoveled snow. It was great! Jacob and Heath LOVED playing in the snow together (sorta), and just being with Grandpa and Nana (and their aunts and uncles too of course).

Outtakes

Back by popular demand, more pics of Jacob and the strawberry.

Hanukkah & an Early Christmas

Not to worry, it's just a flesh wound... keeding, only keeding. Jacob has taken to smushing his breakfast, lunch and dinner deep into the layers of his full head of hair. When I put him to bed it still smelled of strawberries after this particularly successful squish (and three tries at washing it out).

Jacob likes to "get daddy"

He enjoyed his second night of Hanukkah and received a priceless gift -- a pop up walky thingy that Mike actually used when he was a baby. He LOVES it (Thanks Nana!).

Then it was an early Christmas celebration with Dad, Beverly, Liz, Ernesto, Nancy, Steve and the boys. Sam was very pleased with his gift.

Jacob was particularly expressive during these 40 seconds, so I thought I'd shared. This was in the midst of the aforementioned breakfast strawberry squish, just after the piece above his eyebrow finally fell off, and just before he had a meltdown to let us know that he was all done.

It's winter

This weekend we celebrated Anderson's 6th birthday, and saw Aunt Nancy's house transformed into the set of the movie Star Wars. The weekend also produced our first snow of the season so Jacob got all decked out in his new winter hat.