And here is "the face"

I'm still not sure how he learned this one, but he makes it all the time! I think it's adorable, but what else is a mama to say?

It is turning colder here (whose idea was it to have cooler weather in January? Sheesh!). We're watching the OSU game and they're losing :( I guess it's just a quiet night here. Tomorrow is our Mom's meeting for January and we're learning infant CPR, so I'm looking foward to that. I hope Toby behaves in the nursery!

Well I thought I could come up with an interesting post tonight, but maybe it is just too late for this tired chica.

Nighty night!
Chel

One step closer...

And so Toby gets one step closer to learning to walk! This is his new push hippo...later he can sit and ride on it. It's taken him a bit to get the hang of it, but he's learning! In the background you can see our new fishtank! I had grand plans of taking pictures of it tonight but then one of the starter fish died and I don't care to document the other fish eating it. I'm not National Geographic or anything :) Maybe once the little carnivores are done dining. Blech.

And by the way, whose grand idea was it to make a jalepeno flavored jelly bean? I'm sitting here enjoying one of my Christmas gifts - a large box of my favorite jelly belly jellybeans and all of a sudden my mouth is on fire! Well I look at the little chart on my box and no wonder - they make jalepeno jellybeans! P'toohooe!

Nothing else too new going on around here. Busy busy busy as little bees! Oh, it was in the 70's here today - in January! I love this state!

Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2007! It's hard to believe another year has come and gone already. 2006 was a wonderful year to us...a new addition to our family, a new car, a new house...it really was a "new" year! I can't wait to see what 2007 has in store for us!





We had a wonderful visit in Ohio, but it went very quickly! It's always nice to get back home though. Curtis is already busy playing with his aquarium and if things go well we will add a couple starter fish in sometime this weekend. Most of our bags are unpacked and the Christmas tree is down and the ornaments are packed away. I'm begging that those boxes go "up" sometime this weekend...after all, what's the point of attic storage if you don't use it? :-P



Here is a family Christmas picture taken on Christmas Eve before we went to the church service. Notice the lovely, dangly earrings? Yeah, they only lasted another 5 minutes before I had to take them out before they were ripped out by my darling son who is intrigued by anything new dangling from mama! He sure is a curious kiddo!


He loved Christmas, by the way. He had so many Christmas celebrations that by the last one he was really getting the idea of opening gifts! He is learning things so quick that he even suprises mom and dad! Last night I set up the Peek and Play dome that came in the mail while we were gone, and on the front is a plastic door that lets him in or out...he's already figured out that he has to open the door if he wants to go in and play! I was impressed, anyway.

He's also getting in a couple new teeth...well, at least one. He doesn't let us look in there much anymore, lol. Of course he was cranky the whole time we were in Ohio, but he's better now. His schedule has popped back on track much easier than I expected! He woke up once last night but only fussed so he stayed in his crib! YAY! Here's hoping tonight goes as well!

Lex is happy to be home too, although it sounds like he had a superb time at one of Curtis's coworkers houses...he played with their dogs all day and I do think he misses all the activity. I tried to convince Curtis that Lex needs another puppy to play with, but I don't think he bought it. I guess new fish is enough for now. I just like a house-full!

Well, the tank (fish tank, that is) is full and Curtis is looking bored, so I guess the two of us better hit the hay before Toby is ready for another day.

May 2007 find you happy, healthy, and ready for adventure!

Chel

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! Here's a little video of Toby and our little snowman singing thingie. He loves it! And of course, his cute faces :) This are good here - busy, but good! THere's an awful lot to do, but I think we will finish most, if not all of it.

Well, it's past my bedtime, but I was working overtime to get this up. Enjoy!

Love, Chel

A Genius?

Thought you all would get a kick out of this one...

He's not solving it...yet :) But he is making sure it tastes good.

He is his daddy's boy.

It sure is cold here! But it should warm up by next week! Hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season!

More pics of my cutie...

Someone is exploring the Christmas tree...


And he gets a little peeved when you take him away...

But Lex always makes him feel better!

It is getting chilly here - down in the 20's last night! Brrrrr! I got the apartment cleaned out today...blech, glad that's over! Anyway, just wanted to share some pictures!

Love,

Chel

Just hear those sleigh bells ringing...

It's starting to feel a lot like Christmas! At least in this little nook of the county. Oh, all right, the tree's not up yet but barring any unforseen disasters, we'll be pulling it out tomorrow and decorating the heck out of our HOUSE! Or at least a strand of lights on the front porch :)

We even visited Santa at the mall today. And learned an important lesson - Go early in the season, before school lets out. We WALKED RIGHT UP - yes, that's right, no waiting! Now THAT is the way to meet Santa, LOL!

And to prove that we did go...

As you can see, my kiddo is in short sleeves...because it's been in the 70's this week! From what I hear, that will be ending tomorrow, but it was nice while it lasted! Gotta love NC in the winter!

The house is great! We are slowly but surely unpacking (but don't peek in the spare bedroom!). I have one last box in the kitchen full of things I'm just not sure where to put...so the box keeps on sitting in the kitchen and we just keep walking around it!

Toby is into EVERYTHING!!! That kid sure is curious! And he loves to help us out. He's such a sweetheart. I have some cute video of him crawling that I'm hoping to post later this weekend...we'll see when I get around to it.

I hope you all are having a wonderful December (it IS my favorite month, you know!) and take some time to enjoy the Christmas lights! I think that is my favorite part - driving around looking at lights!

Love to all,

Chel