Cars, Trucks, Trains and More!

Thanks to the many generous gifts from friends and family, our house is now full of lots and lots of new toys! And many of them are very large toys! Now we just need a bigger house!

Thank you to everyone for all of the great gifts! Matthew is blissfully happy with all of his new stuff (and even has a few more presents from mom and dad to unwrap in the future). Thanks especially for the toys that talk or sing or play annoying songs! ;-)

Outtakes

Here are just a few (of the many!) pictures we took in hopes of a great Christmas card picture! The poor boy had four of us trying to make him smile and laugh and was a bit overwhelmed by the end of the whole thing! Anything for a good picture, though, right??

Is that Santa?

Matt loves to wear Daddy's belts around the house and with his red and white jammies on this day, he looked a bit like Santa Claus. Must be the big belly!

O Christmas Tree

Matthew cut down his second Christmas tree last weekend, or more accurately, watched his Daddy cut it down! Despite the weather (of sleet and snow) he had a great time watching Mom and Dad, Nanny and Grampy, and Nana and Grampa pick out and cut down trees! Then this past weekend, we brought the tree inside and decorated it! It looks different than in years past, since there are only silver and red balls on the top half and all the soft fuzzy ornaments on the bottom half (and on the floor all around the tree!) but it's beautiful! Matthew loves it and smiles his huge smile every time we plug in the lights! The question now is: will it be safe to put presents under the tree or will the little devil get into them!?!?!?

Happy Thanksgiving!

We all had a wonderful time visiting with family and friends in Liverpool, NY for the Thanksgiving holiday! Matthew had a blast playing with his cousins Abby, Bradley, Kendal, Gracie, and Cole! They were all very good at sharing toys and Matt had a blast discovering all of Bradley's tools and trucks as well as Abby's dress-up shoes and necklaces!

Thank you to everyone out there for hosting and feeding us! We love you and miss you again already!