Happy New Year to all of our fabulous friends and family who read our monthly blog updates! Hope you had a fantastic holiday season and are settling back into the daily grind in the new year. We had a VERY busy, but fantastic month of December. We enjoyed a few down weeks at home in TN at the beginning of the month. Had some great friends come and visit from Louisville and celebrated Kyle's 27th birthday (I keep teasing that 30 is just around the corner now). Then the weekend before Christmas we headed up to Chicago for the holidays. I love getting the chance to go home and Christmas is and always will be cold and snow to me, but the major downside of going home is the 8 hour road trip. Especially now that Grey doesn't exactly fall asleep in the car all the time like he did when we he was younger. We left at about 5am so he would at least sleep for more of the trip and made both legs of the trip with only having to stop once. So, overall not to bad, but God bless portable DVD players because when Grey was hitting the wall with exhaustation and tired of being in his car seat good ole "Baby Einstein" was just the trick to calm him down. We spent a week in Chicago - seeing my family, going to Kenosha to visit Kyle's grandma and aunt, and celebrating the holidays. Greyson throughly enjoyed his first Christmas and now our house is starting to look like a playground with the many toys he recieved, which he is throughly enjoying. Gone are the days of stylish home decor and now we function with toy baskets in each room and many a colorful plastic sound making gadget laying around.
After our Christmas trip to Chicago we came home for about 2 and half days, and then left again to fly down to Florida to visit Kyle's parents for the new year. The warm 70-80 degree temps were a welcome change after the bitter Chicago cold and we had a really fun visit. Took Greyson to his first mini petting zoo which was a big hit with him. He loved seeing all the animals and we had to laugh when the only animal he got vocally excited about was a farm cat running around after seeing all these big cows, llamas, and crazy looking turkeys. Guess that cat reminded him of his buddies at home. Check out the pictures to see what a good time was had by all.
We're now happily back in TN for awhile and only have one little trip in the forseeable future - which we're rather happy about it. We have been all over the place the past 6 months so some down time at home is just what we need. We realized that our trip to FL was Grey's 4th round trip flight in his 10 months of life - he's quite the jetsetter. Speaking of Grey moving all around he is now a crazy crawling monster. When he is up he literally never stops moving! He is a speed crawler and pulling up on anything and everything he can get his hands on (see video below to check him out in action). He's starting to walk moving along a table or furniture and getting pretty gutsy with letting go with one hand. Walking is definitely coming in our near future - I'm already exhausted thinking about how much chasing around we'll be doing. Overall, he's doing fantastic....continuing to grow like a weed and weighing in around 22-23 pounds. We just can't get over what a "little boy" he's becoming, especially now that his first birthday is approaching quickly. Check out the pictures to see what a little man we have now.
Hope this New Year finds you healthy and happy and we wish you all the best that 2009 has to offer!
With Love,
The 3 H's
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