Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

I actually have several posts I need to catch up on - but I'm doing this one first. Will met Santa! Let me tell you - seeing Santa at North Park is an ordeal! I went there at 11:30 expecting to wait maybe a couple of hours. They gave us a #. We were #188. I looked at the display and it said now serving #34! What?!? The man said to come back at 4:30. So, we did. At that point they were on #144. Well, that's closer. Then at 5pm Santa took a dinner break. Come on now! A break?!? Ugh. So we did a little more shopping and were finally allowed to enter the line at around 6pm. We saw Santa at about 6:45ish. We had a 7pm party to get to so needless to say, we were late.

Will did great, of course, because Santa isn't a creepy old man to him yet. Next year will be different I am sure! He did his typical refuse to smile at the camera thing with the clinched fists, but I think the picture is pretty good. First visit with Santa - check!!

The Proof

I finally captured it! Here is our big boy rolling over. This is a really good one and he even pulls himself back up after he almost rolls over. Here's our strong little boy showing off!

Mr. Social

This week has been a busy week.  It is definitely December!  Monday night Tricia and I went to First Monday at a church in Forney.  On Tuesday I took Will to Ft. Worth and he got to meet Martha, my mom’s cousin.  Then we went to dinner with some friends we hadn’t seen in ages.  We grew up going to church with them.  It was great to catch up.  Last night I had dinner with the girls in my Community Group and Ally came over to see Will.  We have plans tonight, tomorrow night and I am shopping with some girlfriends on Sat.  Yay for fun times with good friends!

Here is Will in one of my favorite outfits.  I love to dress him like a little man!  His shoes are way cute, too.  The left one is falling off in this pic.

  

Mimi has this fun fishy lamp at her place.  Will loved it!  He stared very intensely at it.  So funny!

Today, some of the girls from my Square One class got together for a little Christmas get together.  The babies even had a gift exchange!  The girls in the class are such sweet ladies and I am so glad they are continuing to get together for a “play group.”  I’ll definitely miss getting together with them.  I won’t be able to go during busy season. I should be able to pick back up after April 15th! 

Ally got Will some Christmas outfits.  He was cute in this one – he looked like one of Santa’s helpers!

Here are all the babies.  It was hilarious trying to take their pic.  We didn’t exactly expect them to cooperate, we just wanted a pic of all of them!

Lily, Asher, Henry, Elise, Sam, Will, & Rosslyn

Will was snuggling in with Sam and Sam didn’t appreciate it.  At one point Will was trying to eat Sam’s tummy!  :)

  

Much to Kevin’s disappointment, we are not putting up our Christmas tree this year.  Our place is so small and Will’s “stuff” has overtaken our place.  Tara had a very pretty tree up at her place and we got a pic in front of it.

Now I need to get to work on getting my Christmas cards out!  Have a great day!

Inspiration!

On Sunday at our church (Watermark Church) we had the neat experience of hearing Nick Vujicic speak.  Nick is from Australia and was born without arms or legs.  The doctors gave him no medical reason for why he was born this way.  At some point in his life he decided to take what seemed horrible and use it to spread the word of Jesus Christ.  It was inspiring to see someone who seems so disabled do so much more than I could ever imagine doing with my completely “normal” body.  If you ever get a chance to hear him speak – do so!  I think you can also find him on youtube and read more about him on his website.  http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/index.php

Rockin’ & Rollin’

Look who can roll over!  The other day I put him down for the tummy time he hates so much.  He decided to get out of tummy time his own way!  Here’s what I imagine he was thinking.

Tummy time again?  I’ll show her.

See me mom?  Look…I’m going… 

over!!  Ha!  I did it.  I got out of tummy time! 

Unfortunately for him I put him right back on his tummy.  :)  The funny thing is he rolled over again!  I caught the above pics on the 2nd rollover.  He did it again over and over again with Kevin the other day.  Uncle Dustin and cousin Dylan got to see it.  Dylan showed his rolling skills, too.  We tried to show Aunt Tricia last night and he wasn’t feeling it.  So…he can do it, but only when he really wants to.  Can’t believe you can already do this Will!  You’re growing too fast.  Please slow down a little…please!

Fun times at Dylan’s Party!

Dylan’s birthday party was yesterday.  We had a great time!  Dylan seemed to really enjoy himself and got lots of fun toys!  The party was at the Children’s Museum, which was perfect for 3 year olds!  After the party we went over to their house and watched the sad Cowboy’s game.  Dylan didn’t care – he had tons of fun toys to play with!

Dylan and his fireman themed cake…

   This year he really got into opening presents!

A little family pic

He got a little tired from all the activity!  This is his hat I also got from etsy.  So sweet!

With uncle J and his cousins Addison & Ian.

Will made a friend!  Brenly is over 5 mos old and Will is just about as tall as her!

Uncle J got to spend some time with Will.

Hanging with mommy.

Happy Birthday Dylan!

Happy 3rd Birthday to my sweet nephew, Dylan!! We love you so much and can't believe you are 3! We love watching you grow up and are so glad you moved closer so we can see you on your special day. Can't wait to celebrate at your party on Sunday!