Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Christmas was a bunch of fun this year. We had our few presents from each other, and then a horde of presents for Aiden so he had his share of stuff to open on Christmas morning. He was so funny about it. He didn't quite get the tearing at first and just kept trying to flip the present over and over like that was it, but once he caught on that it makes a fun noise when he takes the paper off, he was a tearing machine.

After opening presents, we went over to Thomas' parents house to hang out with the rest of his family that came up to visit for the weekend after Christmas. It was fun for him to be able to play with his cousins because the last time most of them saw him, he wasn't quite yet at that playing stage.

New Year's Eve we did absolutely nothing. In fact, we were asleep at 10:30 because Thomas had to work the next day at 5:30 a.m. and what fun is it to stay up by yourself just to not see the ball drop because you don't have any form of TV reception and then wake up way too early because your son is teething and wakes up at approximately 6:00 every morning? I cannot tell you how glad I will be when his molars are done cutting. He has two cut through already, another one possibly minutes away with the fourth trailing behind a few days.

Oh, and since I missed it, his eleven month blog update:

He is now able to climb onto more and more which means I absolutely have to have him within sight and reach at all times because I'm the first time mom that is scared of bumped heads. He is also really too smart for his own good because he is now able to make the okay kitchen drawers steps to get to the not okay kitchen drawers so I have to cut them all off which is a pain in the butt when I am trying to cook. He is also starting to talk. He will say momma, dadda, Coco and poop. And most other words he will mimick what you are saying, but doesn't always connect it with what the object actually is. Also, on top of that, he is so close to walking. He will stand up and start to lean towards what he wants and lift up his foot, but then at the last possible second, when you think there's no way he won't take a step, he kneels down and crawls. We'll see if he starts before his birthday.