Baby's First Christmas

We spent Christmas with Josh's family, and we had a really great time with them. Josh's sister and husband were there as well, so we got to see our little niece, Chesney. Here's Sarah and I, holding each other's babies.

Isn't she a cutie? She's 4 months old, so that makes her and Matthew 5 months apart, almost to the day. Matthew enjoyed playing with his cousin, as you can see below :)

Matthew got lots of attention, and had lots of playmates, including Sammy...

...Grampa...

...and Aunt Beka.

And here's me, lovin' on little Chesney.

Grammy and Grampa both had their fun with the grandkids. I'm sure as the babies get older, it will harder and harder to get a pic of them both holding still on their grandparent's laps.

I love this picture, even though Matthew is so upset in it. He'd just woken up from a nap, and he's usually pretty clingy after sleeping. So when I put him down to take this pic, he immediately started bawling like I had left him forever and was never coming back. I love how Chesney's looking over at him, wondering what's wrong. It almost looks like she's got her hand on his leg, as if to say, hey bud, it's ok. Precious :)

We spent early Christmas morning at our apartment, where we opened the gifts we had for each other. Matthew didn't quite know what to make of the paper. We encouraged him to grab it and rip it, but he just kinda fingered it and left it alone.

He was a little more eager to touch tissue paper. Here he is opening some Disney plush characters we got for him.

And here he is with the loot he got from us. Well, the Little People Nativity set was sent from Gramma, and the puzzle was from Aunt Laura that he opened the night before. But the rest was from us. We decided not to get him too many things, since he's too young to remember, and he'd be getting a bunch from everyone else anyway. We got him some stacking/nesting blocks, a Cars book with a matching plush Lightning McQueen, and the Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto plushes I talked about.

I got Josh some shirts, books, and a usage monitor. You plug it in to an appliance, and it will tell you how much power it's using and how much it costs you a month. And I opened up a book, a cupcake courier, and a dress watch for church. Then we headed over to Mom and Dad's to open some more gifts. Laura and Hannah pictured below.

Donald and Sarah and Beka shared the couch for present-opening time.

Chesney got the cutest little baby doll.

We ended up feeding Matthew while we opened gifts, which worked out well, cause we just left him in the highchair, instead of juggling him between hands. At one point Laura brought Chesney over to say hi to him.

And a short video we took of Matthew in a box full of wrapping paper.

Josh and I got lots of neat gifts. Some of our favorites were our matching OSU sweatshirts; Josh enjoyed receiving two books that greatly influenced Ronald Reagan, and I liked the bracelet my father-in-law made for me. Oh yeah, we also loved getting part of the Willow Tree nativity set. I know what we'll be asking for next year ;)

Oh, we dressed Matthew in an outfit that his daddy wore for Christmas at 7 months old. What a ham!

And here's a Christmas outfit that Josh and his sisters all wore for Christmas. It's big on Chesney...

...but just a little snug on Matty :)

One of my favorite gifts that Matthew got--the cutest PJs ever!

And a nice family picture of the three of us. I'd say Merry Christmas, but it's a little late, so Happy New Year instead!