Merry Christmas!

We'll get some pictures up later (we still haven't opened presents, after church James took a nap then we ate our Christmas dinner). We are back in our place, which was de-leaded last week. It was quite a process, and we are so thankful to be home! Last night after James went to bed we put up our Christmas decorations and brought out the presents from family and St. Nicholas (we are keeping presents from Santa/us limited to 3, in honor of the Magi. It makes us think harder about what to get, and will hopefully keep the spirit of the season where it should be) James exclaimed "WOW" when he saw everything this morning! He was really excited! In other news, he is taking the odd step here and there now. He doesn't really see the advantage to walking yet, but I'm happy he is at least making an attempt!

Belated Thanksgiving Post

Thanksgiving was over a week ago but we are just now getting around to posting a few pictures. My mom came up for Thanksgiving weekend, and we had a very nice time visiting with her. James hadn't seen her in a year but seemed to warm up to her pretty quickly.

Here are a few photographs. The first is a Thanksgiving craft project James created with the nanny during the week. She said he had a lot of fun. The second picture is a shot of James wearing his sunglasses during our Thanksgiving dinner. We had a very nice meal at a local restaurant and James was very cooperative (during most of the meal), even though his nap schedule was thrown way off by all the excitement of the weekend. The last picture is James and my mother playing a very fun game of "horsey".

(Sorry the quality on these shots isn't as good as normal. We didn't want to lug the camera around all weekend, so we just took the much smaller video recorder and grabbed a few still frames for these pictures.)