Carrots

Maddox's reaction to home-made baby food (about a month ago). NOT. A. FAN.

Giggles

Our friend, Farhad, recorded Maddox's giggles when we visited in JC. In one Brian is surprising Maddox. In the other Riley is modeling her new dress-up clothes with loud, clunky shoes, which was incredibly entertaining to Maddox. This video was at the tail-end of the modeling/laughing extravaganza when he was actually calming down.

A White Christmas

It was a great first Christmas, with a perfect Christmas Day snow! Brian and I are so lucky to have such a healthy, sweet boy. We enjoyed a quiet Christmas in Springfield. Then, at Papa's house Maddox got his first ride on a rocking horse and fell in love with the fish tank.

On Christmas Day we made our way to Jefferson City. Riley kept hugging Maddox- and he just loved getting attention from her. Maddox and Jayson mostly just took toys from each other, but I'm sure they will have tons of fun in the future! We had a nice visit with Brian's family- including his grandparents from Nebraska. We then had a short visit in Wardsville with my Grandma and we left with tons of Christmas cookies (which lasted about a week) and WWII photos and letters of my grandfather's for Brian to scan and study. Grandma also let me have a couple of shirts of Grandpa's that I plan to use in a project for Maddox.

My aunt, Lynn, was in town on New Years Eve and watched Maddox while Brian and I went to the movies. It was a nice treat.

-I just realized that I don't think we took a single picture of Brian and I over the holidays. Maddox will just have to trust that we were there.-