It's a busy time of year

It has been a while since we posted last, and for good reason. This is the busiest time of the year! We have been busy decorating the house, going to Christmas parties, catching up with old friends and taking our Christmas card photos!

We headed up to Fort Collins last week for Jeff and Linda's annual open house party, and we had lots of fun (maybe too much fun?). We stayed at Uncle Jordan's house just up the street, he was so nice to have us (especially because that meant that he had to watch Henry for the evening). We decided that while we were up there we would have Rebecca take our Christmas card photos. They turned out great, but we didn't get Henry to smile for them at all! (No real surprise there) I have posted a couple for you to see, and our cards on on their way!

We finished decorating, and although Bryan didn't put up lights outside this year, we were excited to get it all done. Henry really does love the tree, so we are happy that it is in the other room and he can't shake the tree all the time!

We are looking forward to going to see Santa, we will see what Henry thinks of that, I can only imagine it won't make him happy! We will post photos as soon as we have them.

Other than that, we have been keeping busy with family and friends during this time of the year and we are looking forward to spending Henry's first Christmas with all of our family. Hope you are enjoying December as much as we are!

Trying to make Henry smile, the closest that we got all day

Making a face at Daddy that says, "I don't think you are funny and this is NOT fun"

This is his happy face most of the time :)

Thanksgiving and Christmas? Yes, Christmas!

Well, it has been a packed week here at the George house. Bryan finally came home from the hospital on Tuesday night. He was still pretty sick, but we were glad that he was home!

Thursday we woke up bright and early to a cloudy, cold day. We watched the parade and Henry took a quick nap before heading to Nana and Grandpa's. We spent the day there with Uncle Jordan, miss Becca and her parents. It was a fun day. Henry wore his new "thanksgiving day" outfit from his Uncle Buck, it was so cute! Henry ate some stuffing and grandpa made butternut squash, but was asleep before he could really enjoy the full Thanksgiving dinner. We had a pretty fun time, but boy were we tired by the end of the day.

Friday we hung out at home because we had a big saturday coming! Saturday morning we ventured up north to Fort Collins to see Grandma and Grandpa George. We had lunch with them up at the club and then went back to their house to see Grandma's tree and wait for Aunt Jayme and Uncle Tyler.

After spending some time with everyone up in Fort Collins, we headed down to GG's to celebrate Christmas with Tyler and Jayme. It was fun! GG made a yummy dinner and Tyler opened his Christmas presents. We wish Tyler a safe trip and can't wait till he gets back home- just in time for the BIG day!

We spent Sunday putting up our Christmas tree. We had to move the location on the tree this year, as Henry was really interested in the tree at both grandparents house. Pictures of the tree to follow soon!

We hope you all had a great Turkey Day! Here are some photos from the weekend.

Henry's Turkey Day outfit from Uncle Buck... so grown up!

Watching a little football on Thanksgiving.

With Uncle Jordan

Uncle Jordan, Becca and Huck, Jordan's new kitty

Putting up our Christmas tree

Helping daddy put up the star

Opening a present with GG

GG and Aunt Jayme with Henry at our "Christmas" for uncle Tyler

Balls!

On a recent trip to Target (a favorite of both mine and Henry) we saw something that we knew Henry just had to have- lots of soft plastic balls (175 of them to be exact). They are just like the balls that they used to have in the McDonald's ball pit, and I knew Henry would like them.
We brought them home and poured them into a laundry basket and put Henry in... at first, he was unsure about the whole thing, but he started coming around pretty quickly.

He has been playing with them for days now, and although they are a MESS, he thinks they are pretty darn fun! Here are some photos of our couple of days of fun....

We also bought Henry his first "real" shoes last week. We went with Nana and although I don't think Henry was all that excited by the shoes, mommy was! We had purchased shoes before, and they never seemed to fit and we couldn't figure out why, so they measured him for shoes, and we got our answer- our son has a WIDE foot. So he is a 4.5 wide. A pretty big shoe for someone his age! He ended up with three new pairs- one brown pair, a pair that looks like a monkey and a pair of tennis shoes.

Bryan is still in the hospital, and we don't have any news about when he will be home for sure. We are hoping it will be today, as he hasn't seen Henry or I for a couple days, and we sure miss him!

Pneumonia and other tales....

So, this week we have suffered a bit of illness.

Bryan came home with a sore throat Thursday, only for it to turn to a full blown "illness" by Friday. This morning he went to the dr and they diagnosed him with Influenza "A" (which the flu shot cannot protect against I guess) and Pneumonia. So as I am home with Henry, Bryan is at Parker Hospital, for at least tonight.

Please send him your well wishes and prayers, we hope he will be home tomorrow. We were supposed to put up our Christmas tree this weekend... think we might have to wait :)

Other than that, looking forward to a fun Thanksgiving week... We will spend the day with Nana and Grandpa Purvis on Thursday (since that is the day that Katie eats unheard of food...) , we will see Grandma and Grandpa George Friday and we will be seeing GG, Aunt Jayme and Uncle Tyler on Saturday to celebrate Christmas (yes, Christmas!) as Uncle Tyler will be headed out to serve our country on the 18th and won't be here for Christmas day. Henry is excited to see his aunt and uncle (and to show uncle Tyler that he can crawl... and will indeed be walking for his wedding to Aunt Jayme :)

I am headed to bed, as it has been a LONG day. We will catch you up this week as we enjoy family and Henry's first turkey day!

Sleep

When you don't have a child, you don't understand what a beauty it is to see a sleeping child. Not because that child is quiet (well partly because the child is quiet!) but because there is something so innocent and amazing about a sleeping child.

I realize tonight as I checked on my son, that there is nothing in the world that I love more. There is no one that I would give more for.

I hope that everyone else realizes this about their little ones (even if they are only little ones to come or little ones who are all grown up).

Love you Henry :)

The stairs.....

Since Henry has been crawling (a little over a month) we knew that the next thing would be him being able to crawl up the stairs and pull himself up on the furniture.

Well, it came much faster than we thought it would. Last week when I was working and Henry was hanging out at home with his GiGi, he learned how to crawl up the one stair from our family room to the kitchen. No big deal right? Wrong! He has now learned that he can crawl the stairs quickly and that there are LOTS of stairs to climb from the dinning room to the upstairs!

We have had to buy new gates, and have suffered through some pretty good head bumps when he tried to come down the one stair from the kitchen to the family room. That being said, it has been fun to have him a little more mobile, he entertains himself and is pretty proud of himself.

I tried to upload a video, but my computer kept freezing. I will upload one later...

Doing the laundry

Yesterday when we were doing the laundry Henry thought that he could help me... it was a fun time, and although it took me nearly 30 minutes to fold the load because we were playing, it was worth it!

I took the laundry out of the dryer and it was still pretty warm, so the first thing that Henry did was crawl over and bury his face in the clean clothes (you know this is scary if you know that my child throws up on everything). Somehow we made it through without any throw-up, and finally got everything folded and in the basket.

At that point Henry realized that he could stand up while holding onto the basket. He thought that was funny. He also realized that the clothes in the basket were just right to take out and throw on the floor, which he thought was HILARIOUS! Here are some photos from our fun morning.

He was growling at the laundry here, caught this funny face

When I first came into the room to find him with the laundry...

Laughing because he had thrown lots of the laundry on the floor

What is in here???

We have a pretty fun weekend planned. We are going to see GiGi sing with her choir group tomorrow up at her clubhouse and Bryan is going to put up the Christmas lights on Sunday. The weather is supposed to be pretty nice Sunday (62 degrees!) and we decided that although we would love it if the weather was a bit more "christmas-y" the nice weather will make the whole process less stressful. We would normally have our Christmas tree up by now, but we are a little worried about Henry and the tree (he LOVES the lights, and I am sure the he will think the ornaments are toys) so we are going to wait just a couple more weeks until we put it up.

Have a great weekend!