Here comes Santa Clause

Check this out Sunshine, I am finally updating our post. Thanksgiving vacation took us home to Grace for ten days. It was a nice break, but we have an even nicer break coming up in a week and a half. School will be out finally, and we'll get to head home again for Christmas. We tried to get a picture of Christ in the back of our family pic. He is afterall the true meaning of Christmas.

Our family Christmas party consisted of Axel's first sit on Santa's lap. As you can tell he was thrilled. He had the ultimate death grip on Santa's beard. It is so exciting to experience all of his firsts with him...soon to be his first Christmas ever.

Parenthood continues to be the awesomest ever. It's complete now with Axel discovering his voice, (especially during Sunday School) and spending hours in the jumper and loving every minute of it. He'll stay in there so long until he goes into a comatose state just staring barely blinking and eventually falls asleep, usually as he is sucking on the front of it...hence the big drool mark. Over Thanksgiving, I got worried about the blood flow to his cheeks so I took him, jumper and all, and laid him in the pack and play. The big red marks across his cheeks reminded us of the joker scars on batman.."why so serious?" Maybe that is how he got his scars afterall...hours sleeping in a baby jumper. If you look close you can see his red marks.

We've decided he is a cat napper. He'll sleep for five or ten minutes and be good for hours on end. I don't know how the kid lasts so long on so little sleep. He is now four months old and I think that it is finally time we move him up to 3-6 month clothes. He is growing by leaps and bounds. So, we are counting down the days to school being out and christmas arriving.