Goodnight Baby Jesus

Jack was putting his Nativity Little People to sleep one night.  It was so cute.  He lined them all up in his Thomas bed, and kissed them all goodnight.   Then covered them up. 

I took some pictures of Jack's favorite thing right now.  Thomas. 

Boden's Baptism

The day after Christmas, (yes, I said the day after Christmas) Boden was baptized.  It was funny, there were 2 babies being baptized at that mass, and the other family are customers of mine!  Not only that, but Kelly (my sister in law) and Kendra (my customer) were at the same Moby wrap demo at the store, and now were having their babies baptized on the same day! 

Jack and Marcel going up when the priest invited the children to come up close to watch.  Yes, they are only 16 months apart.

Jack didn't want to get too close.

The 2 families.

The Godparents.

My sweet little man at the party afterwards.

Christmas!

We had Christmas Eve at our house this year!  It is SO MUCH WORK to host 15 people for Christmas dinner.  It all works out and is lovely in the end, but boy, it is a lot more relaxing to go to someone else's house!

Jack LOVED the Guatemalan hot chocolate.

The food.

The only decent picture of the boys.

Jack and Uncle Chris were dressed alike.   Jack must have noticed because he pushed all the gifts to Uncle Chris.

Jack opening a really really big truck from Grandma and Grandpa.

Katie and Greg posing with their gifts from us.   Greg was using a wooden racket!   He needed this upgrade!

And Christmas morning at my Uncle Doug and Aunt Karen's house...the gift pile.

 

Cooking with his new pots and pans!

If you remember, a while back I posted about Jack singing into a candlestick.  Now he has a microphone!

 And, one of his favorite gifts, the Thomas umbrella. 

Christmas in Indiana

Right before Christmas, we had our annual celebration in Indiana with Pappy (my dad) and my mom's family.  Here are some pictures of Jack and his pappy and his new chair.

Opening gifts with the girls.

He got a doctor's kit, that had a pair of plastic scissors in it, and he insisted on using the scissors to open the rest of the gifts.

With Great Grandpa.

Christmas Cookies

Jack helped make Christmas cookies this year!  He really enjoyed it! 

Decorating them was hard, all he wanted to do was eat them!   These are all naturally dyed decorations, we don't do any artificial food dyes here.

 We took them to our Christmas celebration in Indiana, and everyone loved them :)

Santa!

We went to Somerset again this year for Santa pictures.   It went better than last year, but not great....Jack was excited about it, until Mommy put him on Santa's lap and walked away.

You can see in the first one, he's ok, as as they progress, he gets more upset....

You get coins after you see Santa, and then you can redeem them at various locations in the mall.

This was his favorite buy.

And we came home, got a Christmas tree and decorated!  Jack was happy to help!

Big News/old Ice Festival photos

So, part of the reason I haven't been blogging lately was that I was super busy being mom, running a store, and working to become a La Leche League leader!  And, today, I am an accredited La Leche League leader!  After the difficulties I had nursing Jack, this means so much to me.  I love my LLL group, and I don't know what I would do without them.  I wish I had known about it when were having our problems in the beginning, but at least we found them when we did!   And now I get to help other nursing moms with their struggles.   I'm very excited!

Back to our regularly scheduled catch up post....the Ferndale Ice Festival. 

Here is our ice sculpture, in front of the store. We had a live carving done...this is how it started out.

Jack with the finished product.

John and Bryant took Jack and Marcel around downtown to see Santa and the live reindeer!

The sign on their lap says "Santa will return at 2:00."  So, they sat in Santa's chair instead of on his lap.

Later that evening, we walked down the street to see the tree lighting!