Henry is crawling!

Christmas recap

So I've taken a little blogging hiatus - not on purpose really, but I've just been caught up in the busyness of the month! We started off the month of December with my work Christmas party at Montage. We had a very nice evening and Aaron called the bingo game for all of the employees. :)
Our little family of four celebrated Christmas a little early this month - we wanted to spread out the presents and the kids don't know any different yet.
Wyatt and Henry with their presents - Wyatt did the majority of the opening this year. Next year I'm sure Henry will be opening all of his own presents!

Wyatt was so excited to open presents! He didn't know what Mr. Potato Head was at first, but now he's a fan!
So serious about opening presents!

Wyatt got some trains this year for Christmas - we also got Wyatt and Henry a train table to go downstairs. We told Wyatt it was from Santa and he was very excited! We helped him set out milk and cookies for Santa, and he was upset the next morning when they were gone - he thought Santa would share with him! :)

Henry liked his presents, but he wanted to eat the paper more.

Big boy sitting up and playing with his new toy.

Henry is eight months old this month. I missed posting about that, but I'll recap that here. We haven't been to the doctor since his six month check, so I'm not sure how much he weighs or how big he is. Definitely continuing to grow though, as he is pretty much in 12 month clothes. He is army crawling now, and he can get up on all fours and take a few steps that way until he falls. Now at the end of the month he is just starting to think about pulling up on some things, but he can't quite do it yet. He is much happier now that he can get to most of the toys he wants. Playing in Wyatt's room is one of his favorite things because he scoots all around the room playing with his brother's toys! He's getting more talkative these days - when he holds a book he "reads" out loud. It's pretty cute! He's also a big eater and getting pretty good at feeding himself finger foods. Still nursing, but not nearly as often during the day. He still wakes up a few times at night, though we are transitioning him to his crib and he is starting to wake up less. Many nights he doesn't want Mommy to put him to sleep - he wants Daddy to rock him. It's a nice break for Mommy. :) He is such a happy boy.
Henry loves his big brother - he smiles and laughs when he sees him. He puts up with Wyatt's "hugs" which are more like a headlock.

One night when Daddy was working, Wyatt and I made some almond-bark covered pretzels, and he wrapped them in wrapping paper and lots of tape. At least half a roll of tape! He had a lot of fun.


Happy Henry!

Brothers in Christmas jammies. I love my blue-eyed boy and my brown-eyed boy. They are my sweeties and I think they are going to be best friends growing up.

Merry Christmas to you all, and a Happy New Year! I think January will be less busy, so hopefully I can catch up on the blog.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Wyatt helped decorate the Christmas tree this year! He did a good job, and no ornaments were broken in the process. Whew! :)
Our tree this year - it is basically the same as last year, but I still really like it.

Here are two of my favorite ornaments - the baby spoon is for Henry's first Christmas, and the other baby ornament is Wyatt's from 2009. Those are way up high so they don't get broken!

Here's a close-up of Henry's ornament. Every year they will get a new ornament - Last year Wyatt got an Elmo ornament. We still need to take him to pick out a new ornament for this year, and we need to get a stocking for Henry!

Here are some cute pictures of Henry - almost 8 months old! We have some similar pictures of Wyatt here.

Well, indoors it looks like Christmas... outside it's raining today. Kind of gloomy, but hopefully it means the kiddos will nap well! I'm excited for Christmas this year - I know Wyatt is going to have so much fun, and Henry is going to love watching his brother get so excited!