Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Luke's First Christmas


Wow! What a busy Christmas our family had.

We finally made it to see Santa. We had Lucas dressed up in his Santa outfit, he had just ate, and we were next in line....

And then we heard the noise and smelled the issue! Ben quickly ran off to get Lucas changed and tried to save the outfit since he ruined his onesie underneath! Once Lucas was all cleaned up, Santa's crew was nice enough to let us back up to the front, whew!





For Christmas Eve, we went to Winder to celebrate with my side of the family. Lucas got so many wonderful toys and clothes! The ride up their went very smoothly; however, the ride home was miserable! Lucas cried the entire ride home!

When we finally made it home, Lucas went to bed while Ben and I finished wrapping gifts and getting set up for the morning. We were so excited to wake up in our own house for the first time with Lucas! We filled our stockings with all sorts of yummy and fun goodies. I was so excited to have "Mom," "Dad," and "Lucas" stockings. We got the stockings from Pottery Barn and my friend Dana embroidered them for us.

Christmas morning was so much fun! Lucas wore a Christmas Onesie that he and his daddy made together. Lucas was thrilled to have new toys. We were afraid he would be too young to understand, but we could tell that he was excited about something!


Lucas got an Excersaucer so that he could stand up and play. So far he loves it!!

One of Lucas' unexpected favorites was a big bouncy ball. He is so funny throwing it and licking it!

He is also sitting in his new Bumbo seat that GiGi bought for him.

It was so special being able to open up our presents and look around at our wonderful family and reflect back over the year!


After we celebrated our special Christmas morning, we went up to have Christmas with The Wheelers. Lucas also met his only cousins who live in California. He loved Summer because she held him and let him pull her hair!

The Wheelers got Lucas an adorable outfit from Ralph Lauren, which includes the pants, shirt, sweater, and two pair of socks.

Lucas found a bell ornament that was part of a present and was fascinated by it!




Our next stop for Christmas was back at our house where my family came over so we didn't have to keep traveling. We had a great time opening up presents, and then we ate a delicious dinner that GiGi made.



Lucas had a great time helping open his presents. There was so much excitement going on around him and he just loved it! It was obvious that his Grandma and PopPop had such a good time shopping for Luke!





He got a duck toy that encourages crawling. We aren't taking it out of the box just yet because he really enjoys just spinning the ducks around.




His PopPop also got him his first Camoflauge outfit. It is a RealTree Camo sack with a zip-up front and a hood.

Lucas got a hammer that makes all sorts of loud noises when you hit something from his grandparents.



I was getting such a laugh putting a red bow on his head, but he didn't find it very amusing!


It is a family tradition for PopPop to put on and wear everything he gets on Christmas!






Uncle Taylor got Lucas his first red UGA onesie! It is perfect since Lucas' favorite color is red!









After Christmas, our entire house looked like a toy store! He was in heaven with all he new toys.

I changed around the guest bedroom and made a playroom so we would have a place to play and store all of his new toys.


















After all of the excitement on Christmas Day, we spent the next few days vegging out around the house.





















Our Pediatrician said that we could try giving Lucas some rice cereal before our next visit in January.

Can you tell he definitely does NOT like it?!

We have decided that we are going to keep breastfeeding Lucas and start introducing solids around 6 months.

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