Christmas in Cincinnati

We stretched out Christmas as much as possible this year! We celebrated first in Cincinnati the weekend before. The Morgans traveled all the way to see us we had a great morning chowing down at IHOP and visiting. It had been awhile since we had seen Taylor and he was so grown up and adorable!! It was a wonderful visit and we are so glad they came!

Later that day Grandma, Grandpa, Jess and Sam came to visit and we had Christmas #1. There were so many presents that we couldn't begin to fit them all under the tree! We had a great dinner and spent hours watching Jack check out all of his new toys!!

We then began to pack to prepare for the trek up North to Canada for Christmas #2. The final picture here is Jack reminding us not to forget him....

Christmas in Canada will have to be another post...

Santa Jack

We never did make it to a mall to get a picture with Santa, but we did have our own little Santa. I couldn't help but post a few pictures from his Santa photo shoot with Lola (who was so patient it was incredible!).

5 Months!

We are really behind in our posts! The holiday rush hit and I just now found a minute to put Jack's five month photos up! (he will be six months in just a week!!) Time is flying by and our little man is growing and growing. As you will see here he also gets happier by the minute. This month was all about smiles and giggles and even some good ole' belly laughs. The sound of his laughter has to be the best sound I have ever heard in my life...filling me with joy from head to toe!
Of note...Jack's source of glee in all of these photos was his dad...

Puns!!!

Jumping Jack



Jack in the Box

From Pictures

Jackass

From Pictures

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was tons of fun this year! First we stopped at the Bensman's house for an afternoon with the family...catching up, eating good food, and watching the kids play! I realize now that I didn't take nearly enough pictures...only two on my camera! (I need to steal some from Amy and Jess!) It was great to see everyone!

After that we headed up to Dayton to Jessica and Sam's house for the Turkey FEAST! The house looked beautiful and the food was plentiful and delicious! We had lots of fun watching Jack eat some mashed potatoes (or try to eat...I don't think much really got into his mouth...just smeared all over his high chair and Jessica's floor).

The other funny bit was realizing our soon is a boozer! He and I were sitting in front of the empty bottle of champagne and Jack kept grabbing for it over and over and sticking the top of the bottle in his mouth....it was pretty funny! Jessica caught one of his attempts on her camera video...watch the footage below!