"CRY me a river"

JR has begun the pulling up and falling down stage,

which means Little bumps, bruises

and a little extra love from mom and Dad.....

Christmas Re-CAP!

We had a great First Christmas with JR and all of our Family!

It was a week long tour starting last Saturday down in

Perryville with ma ma & pa pa'

Mr. Blogger and JR, waiting for Santa!

Mom and JR in the Santa Village....

Then a Surprise visit for Katie's mom
Tim's in town from DC.....

Uncle Tim & JR

The nanny (Aunt Carol) and her daughter stopped by

for a pre-Xmas....

Carol

Then the Rauls Family came up for dinner and gifts!

All the gal's--Grandma Suzy, Great-Great Grandma Rose & Aunt Stephanie

Let the gifts begin!

Uncle Sam & JR's first pair of Nike Air-Jordans!

Grandpa!

Mommy & JR- X-mas morning!!!

happy boy!
Ridicules!!!!!

We loved the cloths, JR loved the paper they came in!
breakfast!

Uncle Adam, who lives in Chi-Town.....
O-MY-GOSH! I Married my Mother!!!

This was X-mas dinner at Nana's

Aunt Cherie......

The Reboulet Family......(left to right)

Papie, Grandma, JR, Tim, Kate, Peter, Me, John,

Claire, Cherie, Em, Susan, Peter & Sherm

The girls stayed the night at our house

and helped out with JR....Here they are posing as they eat chocolate!

JR wakes to a bottle with the girls!

Quadratic Equations......

He's only 9months old & we have him studying for the LSAT.......

Lumber Jack "Joe"

Woody Wood Pecker, Leave it to Beaver.....

I could go on all night!

Needless to say, Daddy was not happy about JR's

attempt to eat his crib!

While Mommy was worried about her little baby with a mouthful of wood, Daddy was worried about the $2000 crib being destroyed by a 9month old....

But Daddy fixed it!

If he eats through that, he's coming to live with YOU!!

Peek-A-boo....

WOW......

Either you're to close or I've gotten really big, really fast!

photo courtesy: Great Aunt Cindy

I'll have......

"Two eggs over-medium, bacon, side of fruit and a coffee......."

.........or a bottle!

He attracts some attention!

We were out to breakfast and people were actually asking if they could take his photo.....

little weird, but what do say to that???

What can you get for $2 bucks these days?

That's right, the Streets of Memphis, 34deg. 9:30 at night & only $2!!

This guy could do this all night.....

He probably made $30 each time he did this.....

Fun on 40!

Mommy & Daddy were out running again! They did the Highway 40 5K run.....

One week after mommy ran a marathon

& Dad brought home some hardware placing in the top 20....

Roll'n', Roll'n', Roll'n'

JR refuses (which we're ok with for now) to crawl.....

probably because everyone will just bring him whatever he wants,

so he just rolls to get where ever he needs to go.

Crawling is for Baby's who haven't trained their parents well enough!

please, please, please......

We give what our readers ask for!

Stylish dude!

He'll let us do anything!

His hats get him allot of attention at the grocery store!

Momma' Marathon.....

So 9 months ago, Katie (pre-JR) decided she was going to run a marathon after Joseph was born! 8-months postpartum, JR's Mom completed that goal by running the Memphis Marathon.......It wasn't the fastest recorded time, but she suffered her way through it and got to the finish line! WAY TO GO MOMMY!!!!

Only 2% of the population actually run a marathon, only 1% of those ever run another--Katie's is a very small fraternity of those who have run 5, 1 being with-in 1yr of the baby.......

WE LOVE YOU!!!

JR & Daddy Made shirts for the Day!

At the start!

Katie and our loyal reader, Stephanie, from Texas!

This thing has gone National!

Mommy right after the race!

We took JR to the Peabody to watch the Ducks

walk from their fountain to the elevator!

Little Post-Race libation & Elvis love!

Our ride back to the STL. with a make-shift "Sun-Blocker" -patent pending...

X-Mas Tree

Believe it or not, we're all done!

Everything is up, all presents bought and now we're waiting....

JR love the tree and the lights!

St. Nick's Day

So we started a tradition of St. Nick's day,

where St. Nick visits on the 5th of Dec & leaves a small present for the kido's--

It's more for Mom and Day now, but he'll get it in a couple years!!

Silent Night...

He's such a great sleeper!

We've never seen a baby get so excited to go to sleep!

He gets a huge smile, grabs his bear, his binkie and out......12hrs a night!

VERY LUCKY!!

GQ

DAD-

According to GQ, Orange is so last year......

Dancing Dude!

This is a horse he got from Great Grandma & Grandpa

His legs are to short to ride it,

so he stands in front and dances!!!

HE LOVES HIS FOOD!

JR can eat!

He just finished an appetizer biscuit & he's one happy little dude...

Daddy's little helper....

Joseph tries to un-tangle the lights....

All the X-Mas lights are hung and ALL the gifts are bought!
No fighting the crowds this year!!

JR gets Holiday Cards!

As you can see, nothing is more exciting than a Holiday card from loved ones.....

Get'n' Cold Outside

The small task of adding additional layers to our little one

slows the "got to get out of here" process.......

But the hats and jackets are fun!