Austin is starting to become semi-mobile. He is starting to roll a bit, sometimes becoming lazy and stopping half-way (and staying like that). I can't resist just tapping him to help him flip all the way over.
Today, I put him in his crib for a nap and he was fussing a bit (not unusual). I left him for a few minutes to fuss himself to sleep. Well, his fussiness became louder and louder. I went to check on him and he had turned 90 degrees from where I had left him. His little feet were kicking the bars on the side of the crib. When he was wiggling, his feet were poking through the bars and kicking the wall. All along, his arm was stuck underneath his body. He didn't know how to free it from under him. I managed to get him on video in this mess of a position. You can view it at the following link:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GZTEXVvyX8o
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
It's Christmas time...
Ahhhh....I just LOVE this time of year. Come December 1st, I didn't hesitate to pull out all our Christmas gear and start filling the house with Santa's, stockings, decorations, and all the rest. Arthur just loves how our house is like a walking Christmas museum. I hope our little man grows up to enjoy and love Christmas as much as his mom does. I hope he doesn't turn into the Christmas Grinch like his daddy!!
Growing up, we had all kinds of Christmas traditions. I suppose it stemmed from our mom who just loved this time of year too. Our home growing up was always full of Christmas decorations and a huge tree with lots of gifts underneath. My mom made this massive nativity scene out of ceramics. It was like a special feature that always went up in the living room. No matter how much (or how little) space we had there, she always found room for that. It was beautiful.
When we were really little, we would get together with my mom's 9 brothers & sisters and all their kids. Someone would dress up as Santa and hand out gifts to the kiddos. It was so much fun having all the BIG family together like that.
My parents use to take us to Christmas mass on Saturdays (normally) as it was shorter than Sunday's mass. When we got home from church, we were allowed to open ONE gift. We had to hold out until the morning to open all the rest. It was so much fun waking up and seeing all the gifts from SANTA!! I just can't wait for Austin to be old enough to understand Christmas and SANTA!
This year, we bought the book 'The Night Before Christmas'. One tradition we're going to start in our little family is reading this book to our little ones on Christmas eve (and the lead-up to Christmas too if they want). As for the church part, well we'll just leave that as a special treat to enjoy when we go to Texas for the holidays!
Happy Holidays from the Ioannou family!!
(Thanks to Lisa for the idea of posting Christmas childhood memories!)
Growing up, we had all kinds of Christmas traditions. I suppose it stemmed from our mom who just loved this time of year too. Our home growing up was always full of Christmas decorations and a huge tree with lots of gifts underneath. My mom made this massive nativity scene out of ceramics. It was like a special feature that always went up in the living room. No matter how much (or how little) space we had there, she always found room for that. It was beautiful.
When we were really little, we would get together with my mom's 9 brothers & sisters and all their kids. Someone would dress up as Santa and hand out gifts to the kiddos. It was so much fun having all the BIG family together like that.
My parents use to take us to Christmas mass on Saturdays (normally) as it was shorter than Sunday's mass. When we got home from church, we were allowed to open ONE gift. We had to hold out until the morning to open all the rest. It was so much fun waking up and seeing all the gifts from SANTA!! I just can't wait for Austin to be old enough to understand Christmas and SANTA!
This year, we bought the book 'The Night Before Christmas'. One tradition we're going to start in our little family is reading this book to our little ones on Christmas eve (and the lead-up to Christmas too if they want). As for the church part, well we'll just leave that as a special treat to enjoy when we go to Texas for the holidays!
Happy Holidays from the Ioannou family!!
(Thanks to Lisa for the idea of posting Christmas childhood memories!)
I love my BUMBO seat!!
Austin got his own little seat last month. He just loves sitting in it and looking all around. If his belly wasn't so big (and getting in the way), I reckon his seat would have teeth marks by now. Our little man is putting EVERYTHING into his mouth these days. Some shots of Austin in his Bumbo are below. He's 4 months old here (17 weeks).
Here he is as he reads a football magazine with dad:
Enjoying daytime TV:
Posing for mom's 'cheesy' XMAS photos:
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