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Merry Christmas!!

Our year in a nutshell . . .

I won!

I am SO excited! I won something yesterday off of a Christmas giveaway! I wrote all about it on my other blog. You can read it here. I never win anything!

It's December! YIKES!

Where on earth did the time go?? I can't believe that it is almost time to be sending out a new Christmas letter. Maybe I should be working on that.

I know that I always explain why I never have time to blog anymore but it's really not an excuse. It's my job. Jack keeps me pretty busy. He doesn't nap as long anymore so I have to keep him pretty occupied these days. He is starting to notice when we're not around. If I leave the room, he gets a little anxious.

He is noticing more and more about things in our house. He is constantly looking all around him. He LOVES the Christmas lights and can't stop staring at them. He will be six months at Christmas and we can't wait to see how he reacts to all of the excitement.

Since it has been a while, we decided on posting a couple of pictures of Jack from his first Thanksgiving. He loved it. He didn't get to try any of the food (his doctor said no until at least six months). He was still happy though. And, when Jack is happy, we are happy. :o)

Food. . . . That reminds me. Why do I feel so guilty now when I am eating in front of Jack?? He knows that I have food and he wants it! I feel awful that he can't have a taste. I just want to make sure that he doesn't get any food allergies. I know that, if I don't listen to the doctor, and Jack ends up with a food allergy, then I will feel even more guilty. So, at least if I wait and he still ends up with some type of allergy, at least I listened.

I am still trying to adjust to Jack being around. It has been pretty difficult to put off house work. I just can't really seem to get as much done. I have had to learn (and am still learning) that it's okay and it can wait. I try to do what I can, when I can. I still wish that I could hire a maid though. Especially with the holidays coming and going so fast!

Making great strides!

I just had to share all of the things that our sweet boy is doing now. Yes, it's time to brag! First of all (thank goodness!), his teeth are almost through and his cries of pain are almost non-existent now. Whew. He is reaching for things that I try to hand over to him. The other day, I went to pick him up in the nursery at our church and he reached out to me. Melted my heart. The thing that shocked me the most was that, yesterday, he actually enjoyed eating his cereal for the first time and opened his mouth for the spoon. So, silly faces and noises no more! Finally!

Oh! I cannot forget this! Jackson celebrated his first Halloween this week. Instead of trick-or-treating, we help out at our church for the kids carnival that we call Candyland. We wanted to have more fun with it this year so we decided to dress our little guy up. We have been working on his costume for, well, since he was a month old. We were trying to think of cute and fun ideas that you haven't really seen before. So, we present to you, our lumberJACK:

No, the ax is not real.

Wanting some of that candy!