First off--Happy New Year to everyone! Hope 2006 was as good to you as it was to us!
We had a busy but WONDERFUL Christmas holiday! We got to see many friends and hang out with people we don't see often enough. Rachel, Jodi, and I had to trade in our annual Christmas shopping trip this year for an hour visit at the Gray's house. We've gone shopping together the last few years, but it was going to be too difficult pushing three strollers around the mall and trying to get anything accomplished with the babies. We sure couldn't have planned this any better if we tried, but we all had babies only a few months apart! They are destined to be best friends--we will make sure they see each other, despite us all not living close to one another.... :(
Here is Rachel and Roselyn (2 months), Jodi and Reagan (5 1/2 months), and me and Cassidee (9 months).
The girls in their matching outfits.
It sure is hard to get them to all look the same direction. Maybe when they are older....
It would be fun to get a picture of them like this every year.....hmmm.....
Christmas Eve:
Jeremy and I had my family and his family, plus some of our good friends, over for Christmas Eve. We always have tons of food and we graze all day long on sausage balls, chips and queso, tamales, and many desserts.
We opened our presents with Jeremy's immediate family. We thought Cassidee would really be "into" the paper and bows and not so much in with the toys.....we were wrong. She loved the toys she got and couldn't wait to play with them!
Look, paper in each hand!
Nana and D-daddy got her a learning table which she LOVES!
Christmas Morning:
After everyone left our house on Christmas Eve, Jeremy and I packed up and we went to spend the night at my parents house. Jeremy even got to experience the late-night-putting-toys-together-Christmas-Eve. I think he rolled into bed around midnight after Cassidee and I had already been asleep a couple of hours. Oh well, such is the life of Santa Clause!
Cassidee's corner of the living room was spilling with toys! She was a very good girl this year, so Santa brought her.....Toys-R-Us!
She was so excited about what was going on that she wouldn't take her bottle that morning. She usually won't be awake more than 10 minutes or so before she is fussing to eat. She wanted to be in everyone's business so badly that, at most, she would drink from the bottle, standing up and looking around!
Aunt Kayla helped her open up some of her presents!
Cassidee and her "house"
Sitting in her big girl "Cassidee" chair, reading her new book with daddy.
Christmas Afternoon:
We went to Jeremy's family's house in Mineral Wells. She was really wiped out from all the Christmas excitement by the time we got there. When she woke up from a nap and seemed to be happy for the moment we opened presents.
She liked playing in the presents under the tree.
She really had the hang of opening presents by this point.
She sat and read her new book for a little while.
And the big present: D-daddy got Cassidee a pony. Well, a rocking horse, but you've got to start somewhere. She would pet the pony's nose.
And she knew exactly what to do when we put her up on top! I see a barrel racer in our future.....
Happy New Year!
She likes to climb up the step and down the step--up the step and down the step--up the step.....you get it.
Hmmm, what should I do next???
Ah, the slide. This is a new favorite. She knows how to scoot her legs to make herself go (whether you are ready to catch her or not) and she can make it down without tipping over backwards and whacking her head on the slide! She loves to slide!
Her old favorite is the swing. She'll stay in it for an hour if we will let her!
**Disclaimer: Double check the air quality before you take an hour long trip to the park. She and I were both up all night with stuffy/runny noses and BAD ALLERGIES! The poor baby still can't breathe.....
11. Watching a black cat stalk the turkey!
10. Cassidee meeting Roselyn!
9. Holding a baby that would stay still and not try to crawl out of my lap!
