I have clearly been negligent in posting real updates lately! I'm not sure what exactly we have been doing, but we have been busy constantly for the past few weeks.
So since it has been a while, lets start with Thanksgiving. We headed to the Morrow's as usual and enjoyed a day of friends and family. We also let everyone else in on Owen's sex and name. Jake had a blast playing with Aunts Nikki, Chrissy and Michelle. He would pick one at a time to take him around on treasure hunts or play cars with him. The next day we spent the day decorating our house for Christmas. We put up 4 different trees this year, our big one in the living room, a fun one for Jake in the playroom, our small intial tree on the table in the living room and we got Jake a small tree for his room. After a long day of decorating we headed downtown to our city's Christmas festivities. Josh, Jake and I stood in line to ride the train while Grammy and grandma did some shopping on the square. Next year we will have to get there earlier so we can do more, we ended up waiting in line for an hour! We had pictures that Sunday finally. We had to reschedule since it rained them out a couple weeks before. It was a bit windy, but we got some good pictures!
Since Thanksgiving we have just been busy. Josh has had rugby games on the weekends, I have been working a decent amount (not a lot but all of my times are full now) and on the same days that Josh has rugby, so Grammy has been spending Saturdays with Jake when rugby and work overlap. Jake seems to not mind that a bit, he basically just tells us to go when she is here! Jake and I have been doing some painting and lots of running around doing stuff.
Jake loves singing Christmas songs, but trying to catch him on video has proven to be quite a challenge since he just wants to see himself on it.
This past weekend Grammy's sisters were all in town. Jake was loving all of his aunts! He was such a ham trying to make everyone laugh and making himself laugh in the process. He is such a goof.
We went and visited Santa a couple of weeks ago. Jake loved Santa and walked right up to him and introduced himself and hopped up on his lap. We got such a cute picture and he talked to Santa and told him what he wanted. I love that he has never been afraid of him and we have all cute pictures of him smiling with Santa. Hopefully Owen follows that lead!
This week we have been working on finishing our Christmas baking, Jake and I are going to finish our sugar cookies this afternoon. And the rest of the weekend we will be finishing getting ready for Christmas.
Waiting in the snow for Santa
Opening presents from his Aunts
Painting
Posing in front of the Christmas tree
From our family pictures taken a few weeks ago
Christmas card picture this year
