Addison's 1st Christmas - Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful 1st Christmas with Addison. She really enjoyed it. While, she loved all the boxes, wrapping paper, & tissue paper.....she really did love all the toys that she got and mostly spending time with family & friends. Santa gave her a ball machine that throw balls up in the air. It amazes me that she knows how to start the machine when it stops. She will sit or stand there & play with it for a long time (well long time in baby time - you know babies do not have a long attention span - well at least Addison doesn't have a long attention span....ADD, like her Daddy). She has really enjoyed playing with each & everything that she has received.

Speaking of standing.....Addison started standing really well on her own last week & took two steps on the 23rd. Each day she continues to take one or two steps. She has not gotten the confidence enough to do more than 2 steps. She also knows that she can crawl much faster so she really only does it a few times a day. My prediction is that she will be walking in the next month. But who knows....she will do it when she is ready and not a minute earlier!!!

Back to Christmas - We enjoyed spending time with our families & friends during this Christmas season! Thank you to everyone that gave Addison Christmas gifts. She really loves each & every one of them. It was so much fun to watch her enjoy opening up the gift then playing with the actual gift it shelf!!! Here are a few pictures of our Christmas celebrations!!! I hope each & everyone reading this blog had a wonderful Christmas!! I hope that each of us took some time to celebrate the real meaning of Christmas - Christ! Addison has a book that I really love because it talks about What is Christmas....is it the presents that we give, is it the cards that we send to family & friends, is it the Christmas programs that we go to each year, is it about the Christmas tree, is it about Santa Claus, is it about the food.....all these things are really nice & superduper fun; BUT....Christmas is much more than that - It's all about God's son....Jesus is the real reason we have a Christmas Day! I hope to teach Addison this in the years to come!!!

Here are a few pictures from the last week leading up to Christmas....

Below pictures are a few of the Grayson Family Christmas get together....



Below are some pictures of some pictures on Christmas Eve at my parents house. I still need to post a picture of Addison in her dress that she wore to church. My Mom has that picture on her camera so I will post it when I get it!

We ended up spending Christmas Eve night at my parents house rather than having to drive all the way back to Pooler to drive back to Wilmington Island on Christmas Day. So here are a few pictures of Christmas Eve night at Grandma & Grandpa's......just hanging out at the their house before bedtime. We had to leave Santa a note that Addison would be at their house so he would leave his gifts there instead of our home....

Addison finally crashed for the night.....

Christmas Day Morning.....Addison unwrapping her presents that Santa left for her.....

Later in the day....after Uncle Pat & Daddy put together the wagon that Grandma & Grandpa gave to Addison, she got to go for a ride......She LOVED it!!!! Thanks Grandma & Grandpa for the great wagon!!!!

Addison playing with the car that Santa gave to her!! She loves for us to push her on it!!! She also likes to push it too! But she really likes to ride it & push the shopping cart that the Valdosta Grayson's gave her!

Is she not the sweetest little girl? It was so sweet we went over to Gary & Kerri's to eat dinner last night & we took the wagon. She of course loved the wagon ride over. We kept having to tell her to sit down; but, she loved it. On the way back, she had fallen asleep at their house. Well we put a blanket down & a pillow, placed her in the wagon & a blanket over her & this is what it looked like! Now does she not look comfortable or what? I just want to eat her up!!!!

Again, we had a wonderful Christmas & are so blessed to have so many wonderful family & friends in our lives!! Thank you to each & every one of you! You are each special to us in so many ways!!! We love you!

ELF

Addison was one of Santa's elf's in the school Christmas program. Here is a picture of her in her elf outfit. Addison was one cute little elf.....

Here is a picture of Addison with her teachers. Her teachers are the best!!! All the teachers did a wonderful job with all the children in the program!!

Santa Clause is coming to town...

We visited Santa today. Well, Addison was not sure what to think of the man with the big belly & white beard. This is the third time that we have seen Santa. The first time she didn't cry. She just looked at him as if she was trying to figure him out. Then the second time, she cried the minute we put her in his lap. Then the third time, which was today, she cried again. Although today she stopped crying while in Santa's lap; but, she still was not too sure about him. Here are the pictures of our three Santa visits.

Just a few random pictures

10 Months - December 8th

10 Months

Addison turned 10 months on December 8th. Where has the time gone. I was looking back at some pictures from when she was smaller & it's hard to believe that she was ever that small. Addison is so funny. She has started to make different faces. There is one face in particular that just cracks everyone up! She skints her eyes & gives you what we call the evil eye. Well it's not really evil looking....it's just one of those looks that you just know that she is thinking about doing something that she is not suppose to do. She has figured out that she can put her hand up to her mouth & make noise. While she has been waving good-bye for a couple of months.....now she will really do it on demand! I was trying to work on blowing kisses; but, this is when she figured out that she could do the hand to mouth & make noise. So I guess the blowing kisses will have to wait until that is not as exciting! Addison points at everything....whether it's to show you something or just to point. She loves pointing. I'm not sure where she pick up on this because we are not pointers. Addison loves climbing....if we had stairs we would be in trouble! Addison can stand on her own now; but, only for a few seconds. Addison continues to be a joy in our lives....I do not know what we did prior to Addison. Who needs TV anymore....we have a cute, adorable baby that entertains us!!!

Addison's Friends

Addison's pals......

Addison, Mason, Jackson, & Payton

Busy, Busy.....I'll post more later....