January

I'm playing catch up here. January has proven to be quite the fun month. I'm happy to be back to my life in Buffalo. IVe been keeping busy with card club, book club, play group and, of course, playing with my little angel. Will turned six months old this month and what a month it has been! Since his five month birthday he has learned to sit up, he's started to babble (ba ba), he faught a double ear infection, can roll over on both sides, and... Drumroll... Is really really close to crawling. Part of me is excited about the crawling while another part of me dreads the exhaustion to come. I do enjoy the lack of mobility that Will has had up until now.
The latest news in our family is that Will is headed to a photoshoot with FisherPrice tomorrow. We sure are excited to have some new frontier to explore. Will actually had to get a child's work permit in order to go. I just love getting pictures of my baby taken! Erik is in the throws of his second semester of dental school. Tests are flying at him as fast as the snow is falling here in Buffalo. I'm constantly impressed wth his ability to focus on school and keep plugging along. He's doing great! Well, that's about all for us this month. We're all just living the dream!

All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth

Will's first Christmas turned out to be really fun and special... Just like every Christmas! Ha ha! This one was really special because it was so fun to actually have a tiny baby with me through all of the festivities. Here at home we decorated the house with gingerbread. We made gingerbread Dinos and a very labor intensive ginger house. We didn't end up having any gingerbread cookie cutters (must have been lost in the move) so we had to go with Dinos.
The week before Christmas, Erik was finishing up finals while Will was cutting his first tooth. As good timing would have it, Will got his second tooth the day that we traveled to Oregon for our visit... What a plane ride... Will was such a trooper and Erik and I lived to tell the tale.
Had a lovely trip to Portland and got to do so many fun things. We went to Oaks Park to skate, I had a day out to make cards, we enjoyed quinoa twice, went to a Blazer game, and got to meet Cami and Courtney's boyfriends. What an eventful trip! I would have to say that my favorite part of Christmas at home is being around family. I am so lucky to have family that I love to be around. Living so far away has helped me to realize just how lucky I am in the family and in law department.
I'd say that Christmas was a success this year! I can't wait for next year!