Christmas in Harrison

We started our Christmas in Harrison, Arkansas with most of Mommy's family. We started at Uncle Phil and Aunt Connie's house for a yummy lunch. Bird held Sissie (Lena Grace) and let Daddy take her picture. While Bird was holding Sissie, Nanny held cousin Nate.

Aunt Connie's little doggy just had puppies and they are living in Uncle Phil's train roundhouse. I got to touch one of the puppy dogs.

Doll held the puppy dog so I could pet it again.

I got to climb in Uncle Phil's train car and pretend like I was the conductor. Uncle Phil also showed me his basement trains and train toys. I wanted to stay down there, even during lunch.

After we looked at Uncle Phil's trains, Great-Granddad rode up in his little car and carried me in for lunch.

After lunch, I rode on the rocking horse that Nanny gave us at Christmas last year. I am much better at the rocking horse this year than I was last year.

One of my favorite parts of Christmas is playing with Nativity scenes. I like big nativity scenes and little ones. Nanny has a little nativity scene. I like to pick up the pieces and ask Daddy or anyone who is listening what it is. I especially like to identify the "baby Jesus."

When it was time to open presents, I was the present delivery boy. I delivered all of the baby presents to the babies (Lena Grace and cousin Nate).

The babies all took turns opening gifts. Here is a picture of Aunt Nancy opening Sissie's tea kettle and tea cup set. Sissie likes playing with the pink toys in the set.

We had so much fun in Harrison. I hope I get to go again real soon.

Turkey Time

While I am a bit late in telling my story about Turkey Day, it is a good one. It is a story about sherriff's hats (I call it a cowboy hat), turkey pictures on my shirt, playing football with Daddy, yummy sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, and cookies and, best of all, a story about the slide in the middle of Doll and Granddad's living room.


On Turkey Day, we woke up early and went on an adventure with Daddy. First, I ate some yummy pancakes. I ate lots and lots of pancakes. Then, Daddy took Lena Grace and me for a ride in the car and on the double stroller. There were lots and lots of people on both sides of the road and some people were running and the middle. Then we saw Mommy and Ms. Becki and Ms. Cyndi running in the road. And they grabbed me and Lena Grace (our stroller) and we ran (rolled) across the finish line with them. Everyone was cheering. This was my second race (you probably remember that daddy and I came in last in the 5k last spring).

After the Turkey Trot, we went over to Doll and Granddad's and there was a new toy in the middle of the living room. It was a great big slide, with a ladder and a basketball goal on the side. I played football and basketball with Daddy and went down the slide about 100 times. Great-Granddad, Nanny, Aunt Connie, Uncle Phil, and cousin Aaron came over too and Great Granddad went down my slide. On his tummy. That was soooooooooooooooo funny.

After we played on the slide for a while, we had a yummy dinner. And then we played some more. Auntie Rachel and Ms. Amanda came over for lunch. And even Lena Grace had some lunch. Here is a good picture of Lena Grace and Mommy.

Here I am with Auntie Rachel. Thank you for looking at our Turkey Day pictures.

And as the back of my shirt said, it's "Turkey Time."

Happy Holidays to all.....

Our Louisiana Friends

I am sad. So sad. Because my friends from Louisiana had to go home to see their daddy. Ms. Erin, Luke, and Emilie came to visit us from New Orleans last week. We had so much fun. Luke and Emilie are 3 year old twins. So we had four 3 and under in our house last week. Daddy said he thought there were 10 of us.

We did lots of fun things. We played with bikes and ride on cars. I showed Luke my tools. Emilie showed me how to feed her baby doll with a bottle. We all took turns playing with Lena Grace.

On Saturday, we went to the Discovery Center and did lots and lots of fun things. I really like the huge "eye" and Daddy took a picture of me, Emilie and Luke. I'm not really sure what that look is on my face....

The discovery center has a supermarket where you get to pick out all the "food" you want and take it to the "kitchen" to cook. What do you think of Sissie on the scale? I think she fits perfectly.

Is that a car? Or a boat? I know one thing -- it's not a box!

Hands up. Or as the Imagination Movers would say, stand up, get down, turn around, turn around, turn around...

More pictures or our adventures to come later....

Holding Lena Grace

Last week, I asked Mommy if I could hold Sissie (my name for Lena Grace). This was the first time that I asked to hold her. Of course, Mommy said yes. She let me hold Sissie in the yellow chair in Sissie's room.Mommy told me I had to be gentle and couldn't squeeze Sissie too hard. Of course I was gentle. Doesn't she look happy?

I had a lot of fun holding Sissie. I hope Mommy lets me do it again!

Big Brother, Little Sister

One of the best things about being a big brother and only being 19 months older than my sister is that..... well, I don't know what the best things are. But I know I love my Sissie. And I really love that she is starting to smile a lot and that she likes to play with toys. I like to throw balls and sometimes I throw balls at Sissie. I get in trouble when I throw things at Sissie.

I like to give Sissie kisses on her cheek. I think she likes it too. But I have to be gentle or I get in trouble...

Pretty blue eyes...

I make her smile. And she makes me laugh...

The Clean Up Crew

A few weeks ago, Daddy and Mommy took me and Sissie to the Discovery Center. It was so much fun. The Discovery Center has dinosaur bones, a little kids kitchen, and so much more. The Center even has a whole room of toys for really little people like me.

They even had baby sized brooms for me to sweep. . . .

I found a really big tunnel and, of course, I immediately crawled right through it.

I had lots of fun playing with the construction toys and with the "jeep."

I used the crane to pick up pretend "dirt" and move it to other places

Here is a very serious picture -- I was very focused on picking up and moving the "dirt!"

Daddy says that sometimes I make him laugh. Here is one of those times. The other day, I found Sissy's hat on the floor and put it. It was pink with lots of fuzzies on it. Daddy laughed and he laughed and he laughed. Then he laughed some more.

Doesn't my smile make you laugh?......

The Last of the Perfect Fall Days????

Our special guest author today is "Sissie" -- my little 7 month old sister Lena.

Hi everyone! I know you haven't seen or heard too much from me yet. I've been biding my time, waiting for the perfect opportunity. And this was it. Monday and Tuesday of this week were perfect days. It was beautiful outside, the leaves were soooooo pretty, and I got to spend time with Auntie Rachel, Mommy, and Daddy. On Tuesday, it was sooo pretty that Mommy took us to the park twice. The first time, Daddy came too and he took some pictures of me, Graham Henry and Cousin Nate playing in the leaves. Don't I look soooooo happy?

Then we rode around in the wagon. Graham Henry kept giving me hugs. He gives good hugs, but sometimes I get upset if he hugs me too hard. Cousin Nate was all smiles tooo...

Auntie Rachel is a lot of fun. She holds me and reads to me and sings to me. I like hanging out with her. She smiles at me. I like smiles.

Graham Henry thought it would be funny to put leaves on top of Nate. Nate thought it was funny too and he tried to pick up leaves and throw them at Graham. Cousin Nate doesn't really know how to throw yet, though.

There were sooooo many leaves. There were leaves everywhere. And Graham Henry and Auntie Rachel and Daddy made sure that we had plenty of leaves to play with.

Like I told you, Graham Henry gives me lots of hugs. I know he is trying to be sweet, and he is usually very gentle, but sometimes his hugs make me cry. Like this picture.

Graham Henry is such a cheeseball. Here he is posing for a picture and saying cheese. But he is smiling so big his eyes are almost closed. He makes me laugh.

Daddy took Cousin Nate and Graham Henry for a few more pictures in front of a tree that had lots of orange leaves. Here are a couple of pictures of Nate and Graham in front of the tree.... Mommy wouldn't let me stay in the wagon because Graham Henry was making me cry.

The weather has turned cold this week and it is supposed to be cold for a long time. Since I was born at the end of March, I really don't know what cold is. I know that it means I have to wear lots of clothes and that my hat will probably be pulled down over my eyes a lot, and I know that makes me cry. And I know that probably means that Tuesday's fun in the park was the last of the perfect fall days. Too bad. But maybe winter will be fun too. And we can always look forward to spring. I hope you had fun reading my story. Bye-bye!