Baby's First Christmas

Our first Christmas as a family was nice. Mom made egg sandwiches and coffee while Dad and Brendan read and played. We opened gifts together and Brendan was especially into the paper. As you will see in the video he was jazzed to open gifts and he and Daddy did a little Christmas dance.

This was toward the end of opening gifts at home and Brendan enjoyed playing with the new toys Santa Claus brought him.

December Events

We finally have figured out how to eat solids and we are becoming more and more mobile by the day. Brendan has successfully mastered rice cereal, sweet potatoes, sweet peas, and loves loves loves oranges. His Great Grandpa sent us home with some cutie oranges (the small ones) and Lou has been letting him suck on them. They are his favorite. We have also tried banana, but he's not crazy about it.

Brendan is rolling, rolling, rolling all over the place. He actually can move quite a ways from where he starts by rolling. Earlier this week he rolled himself off of the kitchen counter and it was such a horrible experience. He was not seriously hurt and we will never let it happen again. I'm still feeling urber guilty as I write about it.

On a more positive note, we are still reading at least one book a day, sometimes more. His favorite book now is Goodnight Moon. We have also been reading lots of Dr. Seuss, and Christmas/Winter themed books lately.



This month he has got to spend time with both Grandma's and both Great-Grandmas. My Mom had us over for dinner with Bill, Nabeel, Moostafa, and Irene and we also went out to Via Delosantos too.


We had the Grandma's and Aunt Paula over to play cards and Great Grandma Go-Go spent the night and let Lou and I go on a date. We found out good news too. My cousin Paul and his wife Andrea are expecting. We couldn't be more thrilled for them!



Last weekend we went to visit Mama Sue in Tucson. Poor thing broke her leg badly putting up Christmas lights, but she has the most positive attitude! Brendan helped to cheer her up. Daddy Lou has been taking good care of her.

Finally, just this morning Brendan sent his first email to my friend Candace. Guess I better start baby proofing!

Thanksgiving in Sedona

We drove up to Sedona for Thanksgiving the day before despite Brendan's cold. He did just fine and we had a wonderful time spending time with the family, playing cards, talking trash, playing with Brendan, and of course eating a fabulous meal. We also went shopping on black Friday and got some Christmas presents.

Brendan ate rice cereal for the first time on Thanksgiving afternoon and he actually ate it instead of spitting most of it out. We were excited for him. Today he tried sweet potatoes for the first time but didn't eat much of it.

Suns Game

We had a blast at the Phoenix Suns game last weekend. Daddy was so proud carrying Brendan around! He did so good.

Daddy's Birthday

We went bowling and had a poker party for Daddy's birthday. Here are a couple of photos of the fun.