One Year Old.

Hello again, we are so excited about our boys first birthday that we can hardly contain ourselves. It is amazing how quickly the time goes by and how he changes day to day. Sometimes he even amazes himself. As you can see getting him to sit still for a photo has become a bit of a challenge but we enjoyed it all the same.
We had his birthday party on Saturday. He was not so sure about the whole opening process but liked the end products as you can see.
Silly mom thinks she is going to get me to look at the card and help unwrap these things. Why do that when I can play with the camera and aunt Cece while mom does all the work.
The cake was hilarious, most of it was simply squished and admired for it's painting abilities until he decided that it was not such a pleasant sensation to be so darn sticky...
So we unstuck the boy and everyone said their good byes to the birthday boy as he soaked in a warm tub. All in all Joey had a great time. He was thrilled to have so many folks admiring him. Despite skipping his afternoon nap he kept a very chipper mood right until the end when he decided it was time to be cranky simply because he was so over stimulated. But this did not last for long, a bottle and some mommy cuddle time and he was out like a light. Of course it was only five o'clock so mom had a long night when he woke up completely refreshed and ready for action at nine. No worries, a birthday only comes once a year so we stayed up and played and watched Christmas cartoons. OK I watched the Christmas cartoons. Joe played with his new toys.

Love you all Nikki

A couple of firsts...

As you can see the first airplane ride was not a big deal. Joe had a bottle at take off and slept all the way to Washington DC were we ended up sitting in the airport for 7 hours because United airlines are incompetent. But I am not going to get into that. Joe tolerated the wait very well he smiled and played and entertained all the strangers who stopped to say how cute and charming he is, Unfortunately he used up all his energy so that by the time we got to Oma's and he met Angie, Bobby and Eileen he screamed for about 20 minutes straight. He did settle a little and play with cousin Bobby and Angie and he was pretty good for Auntie Eileen when she held him but they did not get to see him at his most charming and rested self. I guess that means they will have to come visit us at Lansing Hollow Farm. Yeah!

Joe also met his cousins, He was really quite fascinated and became very fond of them in the short time we had. Even now when I try to show him pictures of his Cousins on their blog he looks around the room as if hoping they are here in person to play with(by with, I of course mean beside) . It was really sweet he mauled Paul a few times but no harm was done to the hearty little 4 month old whose curly locks were just to much to resist. Cousin Luke was really wonderful with Joe he shared toys that up to this point had been exclusively his at Oma's house and even helped me feed Joe. I can hardly wait to get these three back together.

So technically this is not the first snow but I was not about to take a preemie out in the snow for pictures last year. So here is Joe's first time experiencing all that is snow. This face lasted about one minute and then my little man's hand got cold and he started screaming at me to get him the heck out of this cold wet stuff and back into his warm house! I don't think snow is going to be appreciated until next year when he can walk.

I would love to stay and post some more but between decorating, cleaning for the birthday party and trying to get Christmas cards done I am a little busy this week.

Love you all and hope your holiday season has been as happy as ours.

Nikki