The REAL DEAL

About a week ago you "graduated" from taking a bath in the sink to the actual bath tube. I put quotations on "graduated" because really it's been more of your mommy decided you would probably have more fun in the tub and gave up on the convinience of the sink. I was right.. YOU LOVE THE BATH.




p.s. in the second picture, it kinda looks like you are upset, but you are actually laughing.

New Year's Eve surprise

Momma worked on New Year's Eve until 10:30p. You and your daddy came to momma's work to eat dinner. Daddy said he was tired and would probably be asleep when I got home. I had prepared myself for a rather boring New Year's Eve, and had accepted it:). It turned into one of the best I've ever had. Aunt Shannon and Aunt Kate decided to show up at our door step at 11:30pm. Just in time to ring the New Year in. WHAT A GREAT SURPRISE:)
Between the fireworks and our own celebrating you decided to get out of bed to join in on the fun. You were bustin a move to Dick Clark's Rockin New Years Eve:

We LOVE LOVE LOVE it when your aunties come to visit! They spoil us rotten with their fun and love. What a great start to a New Year!

It was a WHITE Christmas

I have been a bit deliquent on the blogging over the holidays due to a combination of busyness and lazyness. I guess I have catching up to do, so bare with the EXTREMELY long post....
We definately had a white Christmas. Luckily I made it to Nebraska before the madness began. Your dad was so kind to come back to pick me up since you and him were already in Nebraska. (what a guy:) Our festivities started on Christmas eve with Grandma Cindy & Grandpa Frank, & Uncle J.R. Let's just say we must have all been good boys and girls because we sure did make out with some great gifts. Thanks to Grandma & Grandpa Wimmer!!! After the immediate family gift opening, the Sintek Family joined us for dinner and white elephant gift opening. Your dad got a Ninja Turtle Snuggie that he loves. The neatest gift of the day was an old antique tricycle you recieved from grandma & grandpa Wimmer. They bought it at a swap meet. They cleaned it up and pimped your ride. Grandpa Frank painted your tricycle the same color as he's going to paint his 1967 (I don't know I could be making up the year:) Chevelle that he is restoring. Prett darn cool! (sorry no pics from X-mas eve) These were taken a few days later:


Christmas Eve was when the snow fall began and by Christmas Day there was LOTS of snow restrictly most people of traveling, including us. We spent the next few days playing at Grandma & Grandpa Dorsey's house. We stepped out to play in the snow for about ten minutes one day but it was SUPER cold so it was short lived. Plus, you didn't have snow boots at the time so you were restricted to the scooped pathways. Here is you being cute in your snow gear:



Even though it was snowy we did brave traveling in town on Christmas night and visited Grandpa Mark, Grandma Kathy, & your aunties Kayleigh & Drew. After that visit we stopped by to play with cousins Jonas & Kamari: (your dad's cousins Issac & Karen's grandkids)

Cousin Jonas

Cousin Kamari

At first it didn't seem like Christmas to me because we weren't doing our "normal" Christmas plans, but we ended up making up some of those plans later in the weekend after the roads were cleared for travel. We went to Omaha to spend time with Great Grandma Schuett & the Petersons and then returned to Lincoln to have our immediate famiy Christmas with Aunt Shannon & Uncle Jay (who returned from being snowed in at the in-laws) The only Christmas that ended up being completely missed was the big Dorsey Family X-mas in Loup City. Hopefully it will be rescheduled, maybe it will be Christmas in July:)

Grandma & Grandpa Dorsey opening presents (Cousin Eric is watching)

Cousin Ian

Drinking out of Uncle Jay's cup

Aunt Patti

Great G-ma Schuett

phheww that was a long post...to sum it up we had a great Christmas with family. We are blessed:)

Christmas Gift sent from afar

Our familia in Spain sent you a christmas gift. We couldn't wait until Christmas to open it (acutally I couldn't:) so we opened it the second it was delivered. Your favorite part of the gift was the box. You carried it around all day, even though it was pretty big and akward for you to carry.
Thank you so much for the gifts. We can't wait to see you in January!

Skype

You and your daddy hit the road once again this past Saturday to Nebraska. You will be there with family and daddy until mommy arrives on Christmas Eve. You are probably thinking, wow, my daddy has a lot of time off work to be staying lengths of time during week days in Nebraska. Well, actually daddy was laid off from his job in late October and has been running daddy daycare with you ever since. For most, it may be a stressful situation, especially with the state of the economy. For us, it was a blessing in deguise. Daddy was not a fan of his work or the people he worked for and with, making it a rather miserable environment. He stuck it out for our family's sake but evenutally they downsized and are giving him unemployment until he finds another job. So, what that means is you have A LOT of time with daddy and both of you really seem to be enjoying it:) Luckily we aren't really stressed and are just rolling with the flow of life (does that surprise you considering our personalities?)

In Nebraska, Grandma D is on Christmas vacation and Grandpa D mostly works from home, so you are in heaven having 2 playmates 24 hours a day. Plus Aunt Shannon, Aunt Kate, and everyone else Daddy takes you to visit are doting on you too. Our morning routine since you have been away has become this: I sleep in until about 10am (which is nice because mommy LOVES to sleep in) and then I go straight to the computer and call you using Skpe. I really miss you little peanut and can't wait to see you in a couple more days:)
Here are some snap shots taken using the Skype snapshot option:

This is me video calling in (Grandpa D turned the camera towards his computer screen:)

Giving kisses to G-pa


Blowing kisses to momma