December/2009 Recap

Hard to believe it is going to be 2010 tomorrow. Seems like just yesterday was 2000. When did we get so old?? I guess we really are adults now that we have careers and a kid. It was a good year, full of fun. The first picture is what Preston was doing a year ago. Crawling around like a monkey. He looks so different now!

Here is our family photo in front of the Charlie Brown Christmas tree. Click on it for the full album of December.Preston trying to figure out what all of the chaos is about on Christmas morning. Loving his new taggie, though!
Cool feature on our camera...cartoon. I thought it was appropriate since P is wearing his AWESOME super hero pajamas.

He is so big now he wants to wear his backpack and drive to school. He is giving me the "Seriously, Mom?" look.

And a little video of him wearing Dada's backpack. Backpacks are a current obsession, thanks to Dora and HER backpack.

Have a Happy New Year!!!

Here's to 2010!

XO

We had some XO girls and their families over last night for a little post-holiday cheer. Good wine, good food, good times.

Jack and Carter File playing with Preston's toys. (Blurry- sorry!)The dudes.

Little Olivia Hardy.

Katie, Olivia, Brooke, Molly, Allyson, Jack, Me, and Preston. What a cute group!

A little more personality in this one...

Quick video of the madness.

Thanks to all for coming!

SNOW!

We got a dusting of snow this week, and I FINALLY let Preston go play in it yesterday. Loved it!

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Seven minutes of Christmas madness below. Starts with Eve at Mima Ceese's house and the rest is at our house this morning/afternoon. Hope you had a wonderful holiday!

They're HEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE!

Preston thinks Kevin is funny- especially when he tickles him!

TROUBLE

Preston with Mimi Mary and Cousin Kevin at Mima Ceese's house tonight.

Checking out the "Kid Tree" with all the homemade ornaments from each year. If you look closely, you can see Preston's ornament from this year in the bottom right-hand corner the picture.

Hope Santa is good to you tomorrow! He was good to me... Clint surprised me with some new bling for my ring! Best Christmas ever!! Ignore my wrinkly, dry fingers. It is COLD here!

Old School

We went to my Christmas party with work friends this weekend, and I got to see some OLD school friends! The party was at the McCoy house, so we were able to hang out with Tammy, Sheredy, and her son, Liam. Are they BEAUTIFUL or what???

Preston had a great time running around the house and touching everything he shouldn't. Here is Lynette running a little defense. Mimi Mary, Papa Joe, and Cousin Kevin will be here in just a few hours...should have some fun posts from their visit!

Shoes

OK- there is a link now in the top right-hand corner of our blog where you can vote for the Santa picture...I'm sure he won't win because there are people on there with thousands of votes already, but still fun to try!

Let's move on to a movie. Some silliness: flopping around on the bed and wearing Dada's shoes. Sorry about the shrieking--he learned that from a little girl at daycare. At least they are happy shrieks most of the time!

Shameless Promotion

Click on the picture below to vote for Preston in the Scary Santa photo contest. You can vote every hour, but do have to register with them first. So far I haven't received any misc emails from them, so I don't think you'll get lots of SPAM as a result of registering. No promises though.

Screaming at Santa- the REAL photo

They finally sent it...check out those tears!

'Tis The Season

Do I even need to explain? We went to see Santa this weekend, and obviously it didn't go well. Hilarious on our end, but Preston was not amused. He was happy when we got there, walked up to Santa and waved at him, and then BAM. Screaming his head off. Clint and I were NOT planning on being in the picture, so please ignore our natural beauty. Funny and classic. The people are supposed to be emailing us a copy of the picture, but for now here is a picture of the picture. You can't see it as well in this one, but there are two HUGE tears streaming down his face. They wanted to try and wait to get a cute one, but quickly realized they should just take the photos and get on with their business. We chose the one where he was screaming the most. Are we bad parents!? I feel for him, but still think we should enter it into a bad Santa photo contest or something.

Here is Preston seeing our Charlie Brown Christmas tree for the first time. (It is a little sad and pathetic, but I wouldn't let Clint go get another one. We have to make it work- if Charlie could do it, so can we!) He likes the "stars" on it. Amazingly enough, he has not thrown any ornaments at the cats (yet).

And a special thanks to Kosi Man for coming over last week. He brought us some cookies from his school fundraiser AND some movies! He is so generous- AND cute!!

Thanks, Kosi! I LOVE cookies!!

Who's that kid...

...with the OREO cookie?

Sneaky

So I have to be really sneaky now when I take videos of Preston. As soon as he sees the camera he wants to watch it, so it is becoming harder and harder to get good clips of him. I AM smarter than a 1.5 year old, though, so I got a few this morning. Some coloring here:

And some Puzzling Shapes here. This is a Baby Einstein book/puzzle, and it has been GREAT for teaching him shapes and colors. (I got it for 50 cents at our used book fair at school 2 years ago!) He likes to take each shape to his chair and then bring them back and figure out where they go.

PS- Isn't he cute in his feetie pajamas??