This is one of the cutest candid moments yet. It just makes you smile when you look at him. He is always laughing, smiling, and talking so much! He is getting so big and getting a personality of his own for sure! It's definitely more rewarding each day to have him here!
I love Christmas and am really excited for this year. It will be Dawson's first Christmas and we got some cute 'first christmas' pj's. What else do you get a 3 month old baby??
This is our Christmas Tree. J.D.'s family has a tradition that every year, the saturday after Thanksgiving we up in the mountains and get Christmas trees. It is so fun! Then we eat turkey sandwhiches and have hot chocolate afterwards. J.D. found such a good tree this year! We even took Dawson up and he loved it. (He loves being outside) We found out that J.D. has always had a star on there family's tree growing up, and I have always had an angel. .. We decided to do an angel this year. It's interesting the different traditions in each family. Maybe we will do a star next year.
My favorite part of Christmas is waking up really early when it's still way dark outside, Santa has already come, and then sitting there just looking at the tree all lit up with sparkling presents underneath. And then we would get our stockings down and dump them out and just eat candy. It was so quiet and it seemed so magical. Dawson wakes up usually around 5 ready to eat, and J.D. gets home around 5:30am... So we just turn on the lights and sit there. I love christmas!
This past week I started watching my nephew Carson while Jori goes to work. It has been such a good experience for me. I love spending time with him. It's been tricky having 2 boys to take care of, especially since Dawson is still breastfeeding and Carson is only 13 months. I think that this is so good for me and will help prepare me for a 2nd little on of our own.
Each day I try to take the boys for a walk to get fresh air. It's still not too cold to go out and do this. Since Carson can't walk and Dawson is too small to carry on my back I had to improvise.... hahaha! I pushed Dawson in the stroller and packed Carson on my back... Those of you who have seen Carson know that he is a big boy... we are talkin' 97%tile with weight, and heighth. :) It's a workout but its good in every way!
