Henry's First Christmas

What an amazing Christmas season.  We traveled down to NOVA to celebrate Christmas with my family on December 20-24.  His grandparents spoiled him rotten.  He got many clothes, toys and even a new car!  Granted it is a plush toy car but they are setting a precedent that will be hard for the us to follow.  Thanks again Mom and Dad, we enjoyed getting to spend Henry's first Christmas with you both.

Christmas Eve we traveled back to PA to celebrate with the Lemker's.  Henry was again spoiled this time getting more clothes, toys and a nice (and I'm sure very loud) leap frog learning music station where he can play instruments and learn both English and Spanish.  Henry even got a book, bib and shark all they way from Sydney Australia courtesy of his future god parents Mike and Jeannine.  Thank you to all of the Lemker family for your generosity.  I know Henry will enjoy all of his gifts and they will make us think of each of you.

Merry Christmas

Well, the lights are finally done on the house.  It only took two Saturdays and a solid 6-8 hours outside, however I must say, every night when I come home I love seeing them all lit up.  

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December's almost halfway gone!

We are a bit behind on our posting so I'll try to keep this brief. Jenny took Henry for his 3 month pix @ JC Penny which we should get in a couple weeks. It wouldn't have been a party unless we had a potty explosion halfway through a photo shoot so Jenny had fun with that.

Last weekend we got our Christmas season started right by purchasing a tree, putting up lights outside and adding many, many decorations around the house. I got Tom's extension ladder so more lights will go up this weekend along with more pix!

Jenny took Henry to meet Santa this week which was a fun experience. He didn't smile but he didn't poop himself so I consider that a moral victory.

Jenny and I took several photos of Henry as we tried to get a Christmas card photo done but we didn't have a lot of luck. The slide show above are most of the out takes. We'll have some more photos after the weekend when we complete all the decorations. Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season!

Henry's First Thanksgiving

Thanks to all the family that helped Henry to have a fantastic first Thanksgiving.  We stayed here in PA for the holiday weekend and my parents came up so we had all four grandparents together for Henrys first turkey day.  Henry also got to see his great uncle Al (all the way from Ohio) and his great grandma Carmela.  At one point we measured him next to the turkey but the turkey edged him out by about 5 or 6 pounds.

Henry is tracking movement really well now and seems to really enjoy when we read to him.  While watching football Sunday he had his first official laugh/giggle.  He was trying to convince me to turn him around and let him watch the Redskins game but I told him, "trust me, you don't want to seem them playing like this."  Henry has his 3 month pictures this Thursday so more to follow shortly.