Celebrating Christmas in Cincinnati

How James feels about Christmas

Christmastime Is Here!

Trimming the Tree

Favorite ornament: a basketball & sneakers

 

Visit from St. Nick

Nativity Scene that St. Nick brought to Grandma & Grandpa's

Nemo!  James is obsessed.

Giving Nemo a kiss.  Shortly after this, he wiped his snot on Nemo.  They're best friends.

A new truck.

vroom, vroom.

Finding Nemo on Blue Ray

 

Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo

I can't put my arm down!

 

Meeting Santa

Pre-Candy Cane

Post-Candy Cane

Fun Times

Wearing Mama's Indiana Night Shirt

Aunt Jill & Uncle Joey's Wedding

 On November 3rd, Matthew, James, and I (and the baby!) were blessed to be a part of another beautiful wedding: that of Matthew's sister Jill and her beau, Joey.

The bride was walking on air.

James fell in love with the band.  He stood in front of the stage for about an hour and a half, dancing, stomping, and eating an apple.

By the end of the night, he was one tired little boy!

But Aunt Jill was all smiles.  Best Day Ever. :)

Halloween - Better Late than Never!

I know we're well into the Christmas season, but I wanted to share a few pics from our Halloween this year.

Carving pumpkins was a team effort.  

James drew on the faces (with some help from Mama)

Dada removed the seeds

And both of my boys did the carving 

(ok, it was actually just Dada)

While Mama took the pictures

 

After carving pumpkins, we headed to the toyroom for a little football action

(who says football is just for Thanksgiving?)

We had a lot of fun carving the pumpkins and watching It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, but James was not so keen on wearing a costume this year.  We came up with what we thought was a great costume for the little guy: Baby Einstein.  With his wild Einstein-ish hair, we thought it would be a perfect fit for the little man.  I taped the letters "E=mc2" on one of his sweaters (which he wore proudly to Boo at the Zoo) and bought him a fake mustache.

 However, on Halloween night, James refused to put on the mustache or wear his sweater.  He screamed anytime I came near him with either of them.  He is starting to get very picky about what clothes he wears...

At least he did sport his pumpkin socks that Aunt Steph gave him

And he later ran around wearing my witch's hat

It was cold an rainy on Halloween, so we decided just to stay in and hand out candy

James had a great time seeing all the kids in their costumes and even meowed at a little girl dressed up as a cat.  Hopefully he'll be a little more into costumes next year :)