Christmas 2014

Santa at The Trees.  Emmett spent most of the evening rolling around on the floor.

 Santa's not so bad!

Bibs and her sea turtle.  Sparkle Something Or Other

 Evan and his Pokemon gear.

 Great Grandma & Aunt Laurie.

 Santa & babes.

 The whole crew.  Smallish this year!

 Christmas Eve.

 Cookies for Santa.

 Reading The Night Before Christmas.

 Finding reindeer antlers on Christmas morning!

 Hollan & Lyla and Rainbow the life size pony.

Santa 2014

Surprisingly, Emmett marched right up to Santa and let me put him up on his lap.  Then Emmett looked at Santa for a hot second and said, "I'm outta here!".  This was Take Two, trying it on Evan's lap.  Still not Emmett's idea of fun.  But overall, the perfect Santa picture!

Emmett - 18 Months!

Where have the last 18 months gone?!  Gone is our tiny little skinny baby and here stands a gigantic football tossing toddler.  *sniff, sniff*

 Emmett Loves: to dance, read books, drink fruit smoothie "shakes", color with crayons, Sesame Street (especially Grover, Cookie Monster & the Count) and the door chime signaling that Daddy is home (at which time he throws down whatever he has and runs to the back door yelling "Dada").

 There's that tongue again!

 Emmett is also getting some words: shoe, sock, book, trash, Mama, Dada, Baba, and "Grogah" for Gover.

 Sweet, smiley man.

The 18 Month Stats:
Weight - 26lbs 10oz - 81%
Height: 34" - 93%
Head - 19 1/8" - 82%

Yep, our skinny little baby is growing up.  :-(

Deck the Halls

Snuggling Frosty.

 Getting the lights untangled.  Always a gargantuan undertaking.

 Em D helping.

 Getting in the Christmas spirit.

 It was so fun this year to decorate.  The kids were so into it and excited.

 Garland.

 Except this guy got crabby.

 Ok, now we are back in business.

 Ornaments going up!

 Head Elf.

 Evan made this ornament with a paper clip and smaller ornaments.  MacGyver's got nothing on this dude.

 The star is up!

 Trimming complete.

 Capped off with a little One Direction dance party.