OK, so let me start with some very late pictures - late as in Thanksgiving late. If you read my entry on Thanksgiving you know that we forgot our camera and purchased a disposable one. Well I finally have the images. Unfortunately, there are not many. Where are the pictures of Shane eating off of his Thanksgiving dinner set from Aunt Geri? Where are the photos of him trying ground turkey from the food grinder my cousin Andrea gave us? Where are the photos of him with all of his other familiy members including his mom and dad? The answer, his mom & dad did not take any more than these. I have pictures of Shane with his cousin Danny, his cousin Jack, his Aunt Jorie, his Aunt Joan, and Grandma Judy - that is it! OOPS!
When I last blogged, Hanukkah had just begun. Shane celebrated the festival of lights for 8 days! He received many presents for Hanukkah, but I think his favorite was this rocking horse from my parents - He LOVES it! He rocks back in forth in everything now! It is too cute! Here is the best picture I have of him in it. It is hard to get a good one because he is always moving in it.
We had my parents and Jorie & Jason over to celebrate Hanukkah. Shane wore his first Hanukkah shirt, which is barely visible in these pictures, and I made potato pancakes for the first time (actually the second time, but the first time they did not come out, so I don't count those.) We opened presents and had a good time! Shane got the horse and giant foam blocks from my parents and Jorie and Jason brought him books and clothes. Here are pictures from the night! Shane's bedtime is pretty early so he is in his pjs for some of the pictures.
After Hanukkah was over, we had a few days to rest up before Christmas. In the weeks leading up to his holiday break from school, Dan kept saying, "I don't care how much it snows when I am on break - it can snow 7 feet and I won't complain." Dan does not love snow, he just hates the stress of driving to work in it so he was hoping it would wait until he was off. Well, Dan almost got his wish. It didn't snow 7 feet over break, but it did snow - a lot! It was too cold to take Shane out in the snow, so we brought the snow in to him! Here is a picture and some video! He was interested, but not thrilled with snow.
We also spent some over break with Kristine and Connor. Connor actually turned 2 on the 20th and his big party is this weekend! Happy Birthday, Connor! We love you!!!! We celebrated the holidays with them and exchanged presents. Aunt Kristine gave Shane his favorite toy in the world. It is a fisher price stage with a microphone and some musical instruments that he can 'play'. The stage is a mirror and my little cutie pie loves to sit in front of the mirror and look at himself and talk/sing along to the music. In fact, he pulls himself up on his knees and puts his nose right up to the mirror! I need to get some pictures of him with it. Here is a picture of Connor and Shane together - how handsome are these boys?
On Christmas Eve morning Shane woke up with watery red eyes! Dan and I both thought pink eye! We raced over to Dr. Lo, who also saw me/Shane the day before Thanksgiving, and learned that it was just a cold virus - no pink eye! Phew! However, his eyes were still running on Christmas so many of his pictures look like he is crying. He isn't! On Christmas Eve evening, we took Shane to church and he found a girlfriend in the next aisle who he was screaming/squealing to the entire time. It was cute - his screams were of excitement! My little man really likes the ladies and he wanted her to pay attention to him. It was truly adorable! Here is a picture of Shane before he left for church.
On Christmas morning Shane woke up to find that Santa had been to our house! Shane received many presents from Santa, but I think he liked all of the wrapping paper the best! Here are some pictures of Christmas morning! Notice the ADORABLE 1st Christmas hat - it came from Jason's mom!
After a relaxing (so relaxing that I was sure some catastrophe was lurking in the future - I mean the presents were all loaded in the car, the Christmas cake was made and frosted and did not require any re-baking or fixing or emergency runs to the 24 hour Walgreens to buy chocolate syrup to decorate it because I messed it up & had no more frosting & Walgreens did not carry icing- yes that actually happened one year.) morning of opening presents and hanging out we headed over to Dan's parents to celebrate Christmas with them, John, Geri, Danny, Joey, Colleen, Bill & Liam. A great time was had and Shane was again spoiled rotten! Dan's parents bought him a chair with his name embroidered on it and Shane and I read books in it every day. Well, Shane sits in the chair and I sit on the floor and read him books every day. He loves it! He was spoiled with outfits from his Uncle Joahn and Aunt Geri as well as a beautiful 1st Christmas ornament & a phone that he loves! His cousin Colleen had more clothes for him and his cousins Danny and Joey had a truck with blocks for Shane. The favorite may have come from his cousin Jack - no not the white sox shirt - the crawl ball - I swear it made him crawl! Here are some pictures from the day!
On the 28th of December our little man started crawling! We were so proud. I can't even believe this video was only from a few weeks ago because Shane can really crawl - FAST - now! Here is the video.
That night Dan and I had a party to go to and Joey came over to babysit Shane. Shane was one lucky boy because Joey took really great care of him! I sure did marry into an awesome family! I have the greatest in laws and the best nephews and nieces ever!!!! Shane will grow up with lots of love around him! Here is a picture of Joey and Shane right before we left.
The next day we headed out to the Museum of Science & Industry with Danny. It was a long day for Shane as we left our house at 8 AM, picked up Danny at 9, and got to the museum at 10. We stayed until 5PM and then headed to Panera for a quick dinner before dropping Danny off and heading home. It was 8 when we got home. Shane even saw his first movie - an Omnimax about cycling - he was perfect in it! I was so proud! Danny had never been there so we tried to get in as much as possible! Here are some pictures of Danny & Shane. The one of Danny by the buildings show skyscrapers made out of legos - they looked great!
New Year's Eve was very low key this year! We had planned on staying in with Shane and Colleen and Bill had a party so Liam came over for the night. We love him so much and he is so wonderful with Shane. Liam cracks me up and is always so happy! I even gave him ice cream on his waffles for breakfast the next morning! We rang in the New Year early with the boys and they were both sound asleep by 9:30. Dan and I had a drink (a glass of wine for me and a few sips of beer for Dan) and tried to stay up until midnight. Once we realized that was not happening, we decided to shoot for 11. We watched Dick Clark ring in the New Year (sort of - I actually fell asleep a few minutes before 11 and Dan kept waking me). Here is a picture of Liam and Shane.
Over break Dan and I did get to the movies once (thanks Mom & Dad) and I got to return some Christmas gifts alone (Thanks Geri) - see I have the greatest family ever! Here are some pictures of Shane with my mom and with his Aunt Geri!
Here are a final couple of pictures of Shane and Dan.
Shane (and his mommy & daddy) want to wish his Aunt Geri & Uncle John a very happy 25th wedding anniversary and a happy birthday to his cousins Jack & Sarah and congratulate his cousin Melissa and her fiance Jason on their engagement!
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