Baby's First Christmas...Round 1

Pops and Mimi came for an early Christmas celebration with Pearce...and us, too, but Pearce is the star these days!  They stayed with Pearce Thursday night so I could go to a Christmas party.  Friday, we had a busy day.  We went out to lunch and then had to kill some time until Pearce went for an eye check-up.  Nothing is wrong with his eyes, he just gets to get his eyes checked for free if he goes before his 1st birthday.  So, we went to the mall play area and played and then we rode the train!  We all loved watching Pearce have so much fun on the train ride!

"Pops and Mimi, I want to go to that Build A Bear Workshop one day!!"

Saturday was the day I was REALLY looking forward to.  We were going to see Santa!!!!  I got Pearce dressed in his special outfit I ordered him which has a little Santa on the front and below it says "I Believe."  His little pants are red corduroy with green Christmas trees on them.  I LOVE this outfit!  We waited in line for about 45 minutes.  While waiting in line, we saw Pearce's friend, Kalen.  We finally made our way to Santa and I seriously wanted to start crying because I was so happy, but I held it in.  Santa was so sweet to Pearce and Pearce just looked and looked at him.  He didn't cry....but he didn't smile, either.  Santa gave Pearce a sucker as we left, so of course I had to let Pearce have a few little licks.  We spent WAY too much on pictures, but Chris said I could pick out whatever I wanted :)  We got two sheets of two poses.  I've always loved seeing kids waiting in line to see Santa, I'm just so glad I have my own little boy now to take to see him!!

 

Saturday evening Pearce got to open his very first Christmas presents from Pops and Mimi.  He LOVED ripping the paper off.  If we just gave him boxes wrapped up, he would be very happy with that!  Pops and Mimi got him the neatest toy and some cute, cute clothes!  The play house is called a Laugh and Play Learning Home.  Every single thing on the house either says something or plays music.  There are seriously TONS of activities on it.  Pearce loved crawling through the door, pulling up on it, and playing with all the different things.  I was so surprised about my gift!  I got a video baby monitor and I just love it!!!  I always thought Pearce went right to sleep after I put him down...he might cry a little, but he would just go straight to sleep...uh, no.  We now know he plays in his crib, rolls around, stands up, falls down, rolls around some more, and THEN goes to sleep.  It is so fun to watch him!  We can even talk to him through the monitor!  Mimi got two spice organizers and a cute notepad organizer thingy, the three of us went in and got Pops the Keurig coffee maker, Chris got moolah, and Otis and Daisy got new dog bones.  We had a wonderful time with Pops and Mimi.  Thanks for everything and we will see you soon!! 

"I know, I know, I'm not supposed to eat this."

Daddy is so fun to wrestle with!