Monday, December 28, 2009

Happy Holidays

What a fun festive week! Miles was so excited for Christmas to come and Santa to come visit our house. We have an Advent calendar and you put an ornament on the tree everyday during Advent, counting down to Christmas. Miles knew that once he put up the ornament on day 24, Santa would be coming. He kept wanting to put up #14 as he called it. We had a fun time making cut out Christmas cookies for all to enjoy, but wouldn't you know it, we forgot to have him put them out for Santa! We didn't leave Santa anything this year. :( I had thought about it all week and had planned what we'd leave him, but after Christmas Eve mass and eating late, we forgot. Hope he comes back next year!

Miles had a great time Christmas morning and really enjoyed all the gifts he got. It was funny, by the end, when we were on stocking stuffers, he had really lost interest and had me open the last 3 gifts for him. He really took a liking to his doctor's kit, which surprised us. We thought he'd like it, but since he's typically healthy and doesn't see the doctor often, we weren't sure how he'd play with it. He played with it all morning and continues to play with it, fixing us both along with his stuffed animals and the baby. He also enjoyed his other gifts and is having fun playing with all his toys.
Ahmad made a wonderful Christmas feast with a Pork Crown Roast, something we've never had before, but was quite tasty!
I also turned 9 months pregnant on Christmas! OMG! I can't believe we have less than a month left in this pregnancy. We are so excited to meet our new little one and anxious about all the new changes of being a family of 4!


The day after Christmas, my parents and brother came to visit and celebrate. We had a great time with family and really enjoyed having them up.

There was a bit of snow on the ground on Saturday, but not much. Miles commented on it, but never asked to play in it. I think he was too busy playing with Nana, Grampie, and Uncle Michael. It did snow all day on Sunday and was beautiful! We tried to get Miles out in it a few times, but he kept saying no, that it would get on his nose and in his eyes. Hope he's able to enjoy it before it's gone!

Miles is starting to expect visitors all the time now! Between Santa, my family, and then today, Andre, Emily and their baby Evelyn came through on their way back home. He's so excited to show everyone who comes the baby's room and his room and then all his new toys. He's such a ham! And we'll have more visitors this week when hopefully the Kleins can come visit and then this weekend when my friend Bubba comes up!

Ahmad is really enjoying the new features on the computer we have now and getting back into the groove he was in when he used to edit film for the IUPUI basketball teams. He put together this hilarious video of Miles' dance moves.

Miles is also too funny that he continues to play this kitty cat game he invented. He likes to act like he's a cat and says "meow" and rubs his face against you. Then he signs that he wants to eat and pretends to eat grass off his pillow or whatever else is around. He then commands that I act like a cat and offers me grass to eat as well. It's pretty cute!

I have this week off from work and am keeping Miles home to enjoy spending some extra time together in general and then also before the baby comes. I took him to a movie today and we saw The Princess and the Frog. He did pretty well with it and was very excited to go. He drank the majority of the large lemonade we had and had some popcorn, so about halfway through, he had to go to the bathroom. After that he kept talking about going back out in the lobby and I thought he either wanted to leave or go play the video games he saw. So I finally gave in and thought he was done with the movie, packed up and headed out. Turns out he wanted some candy! So, we got a bag of cotton candy and headed back into the theater to finish the movie. He enjoyed it and couldn't wait to tell Daddy all about it when he got home from work. We had a great day and I'm looking forward to the rest of the week!

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