day of firsts...

Today was a day of firsts for Graham. To start the day, we saw Santa (whom we happened to know because he is a family friend). Graham loved Santa and smiled in all of his pictures. I guess that's nothing new...since he smiles at EVERYONE. I never knew an infant could be such a people person until Graham came into this world. He'll smile at just about anyone...he just loves people!

After we saw Santa, we wanted to go see The Blindside. I didn't mention earlier, but Jeff took the day off. We went to the matinee because we thought it would be less crowded. We didn't want Graham to cry during the show, so we thought a weekday would be the best. And it was! There were only 15 people in the theater, but that wouldn't have mattered because Graham was great! He pretty much slept the entire time, but he did wake up once and let out a cry. He was perfect! On the way home, we stopped off at the Cool Cuts for Kids to get Grahamer a little trim. His hair was getting a little out of control around his ears and on top. He did a great job there too! They put him in this little car (which you'll see below) and he hit is head on the metal steering wheel. Poor baby cried and cried for a minute.

Here are a few pictures from today!

mr. giggles

This just makes my heart happy! He's such a happy baby...we couldn't be luckier. This was taken about 2 weeks ago...but just got it uploaded.

almost a crawler

Our next door neighbor, Judi, has been so sweet to take several pictures for us. She took a few yesterday...they turned out pretty cute! PS...I just love the vintage chair he's sitting in too!

On a side note, Graham is almost ready to crawl. In the last few days, I've seen him raise his entire body off the floor. He's even done the crawling motion...just hasn't quite mastered the idea of actually moving. I love to see him accomplish these new things!

On November 16th, his first bottom tooth broke the skin. Since then, his bottom right tooth has broken the skin too. I feel so sorry for him though, because you can really tell his gums are bothering him...and I hate that! He is constantly putting fingers, clothing, anything in reach into his mouth. This is just the beginning of the teething too...oh no!

birthday fun!

For my 26th birthday, we went to the Dallas World Aquarium for the afternoon. It may look like Graham was not interested, but below all of those frowns...I think he had fun! Graham really did great at the Aquarium, until the last hour or so...after that he was passed out. He loved seeing all of the under water animals, especially that sea cow.

trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat

Graham= Charlie Brown

Jeff= half asleep/ half awake (which he won the costume prize for at work)

Amanda= smartie pants (had smarties attached to my pants)

amarillo trip

We went to Amarillo over the weekend. We had a great time! Graham did so great in the car. When he did get fussy, all we did was sing him "Head, shoulders, knees, and toes" and he was happy again...well for a minute at least. He also got to meet great grandma Lutz!! Graham's loves in the last month: standing with support for longer periods of time, sitting by himself (well for 30 seconds anyway), getting his knees up underneath him, shaking a rattle, saying his first word "mama" even though he doesn't know it yet, rolling around like crazy, turning from a brown headed boy to a blondie, laughing all the time, and eating rice cereal like a mad man!