Opening Christmas presents

 

Christmas in Winnipeg was exciting!!!!

 

Who needs a sled, when you have a shovel?

 

 

Playing in the snow at Grandma and Grandpa's

 

chillin

 

Cutest kid in the universe

Ok, so maybe I'm a little biased, but he is pretty darn cute. Every day, he just amazes me with the things he is learning, and doing. He understands several things now, including sit down (sits down), clean up (puts his toys away, with some help), time to eat (runs to his high chair), and go upstairs (runs to the stairs and pulls on the gate). He's also big into clapping for himself when he does something good. Especially when that "something good" is that he finally stops doing something that he isn't supposed to be doing. He thinks that if he claps when he's done being naughty, the naughty part doesn't count. Sigh. Good thing he's so darn cute.

Happy New Year!!!!

We had a slight technical complication this past weekend (our computer crashed), but we are now back online, and ready to update you on what we have been up to. Christmas was wonderful, busy, and exhausting. We visited Grandma and Grandpa in Winnipeg, and luckily, it wasn't the usual 20 below weather we have come to expect for winter visits. Rob had a lot of fun bundling up in his (Toronto Maple Leaf's) snowsuit and playing in the snow. Grandpa had a lot of fun following Rob up, and trying to teach him how to go down, the stairs. Over and over, and over and over. (Rob likes stairs. A lot). Grandma had fun giving Rob cookies. (Rob likes cookies. A lot). Rob was a trouper on the airplane, and through many visits with many different people. When we got home, that was another story. The next day, I was ready to send him back to Grandma and Grandpa, because he whined and cried the entire day. It made me very thankful that he is normally a happy little guy. I think he was just suffering from cookie withdrawal. Come to think of it, I think we all were. We are all now back to normal (or as normal as we get).