Baby Life Week 24: The Christmas Season Continues

As I mentioned in my last post, this weekend started off with a visit from my mom.  On Saturday, we continued our cooking baking, and finished up a little after noon.  Then we cleaned up and did a little shopping at Kohl's before mom had to head back home.  While Mom and I made Christmas cookies, Eric watched Asher.  They spent some time looking out the window...

...and then Eric decided that he wanted to give Asher some pears for the first time.  We huddled around the high chair and watched Asher eat and laughed until we had tears in his eyes.  It seemed like he liked it, but was not overly fond of the tartness of the food.  Every time he got some in his mouth he would make a hilarious face, but then after he swallowed it and would come back for more.

2 Videos: Asher & The Pears

Mom, Asher & I with the final results of our Christmas Cookie weekend.

Since mom left on Saturday due to the impending winter storm, we ended up having a Sunday free to do whatever we wanted.  This resulted in a very lazy family day at home, and by late afternoon, I decided that it was a good time to have a little (or big) Christmas photo shoot with my little man...

Yikes...caught off guard by the flash! :)

Playing with Bumble.

In awe of the tree...a big lit bush filled with toys!

It is getting harder and harder to take close-ups of Asher, as he now trys to steal the camera.

Asher & Daddy

My happy guy.

A silly smile while Daddy blows rasberries on his belly.

Concentrating on not falling over.

He is supposed to be wearing antlers, but he looks more like an elf from the Lord of the Rings.

1 Video: Christmas Photo Shoot

Most of the rest of this week was spent doing the usually stuff (work, eat, take care of baby, sleep, repeat).  However, on Wednesday Eric took the day off work so that we could have our traditional Christmas Family Day (it used to be more of a Christmas date, but now it is a Family Day).  We spent a very lazy morning relaxing at home, and then headed up to the North side of Milwaukee to enjoy some Christmas shopping and lunch at Mongolian BBQ.  I didn't get any pictures from the day, but we did have a good time looking around and just enjoying the season and each other's company.  That evening, after we had gotten back home, I came into the living room to find Eric & Asher having their own quiet moment enjoying the lights of the Christmas tree...I had to lay down and join them (but I will say that laying on the floor these days is much more painful than it used to be, and getting up afterwards is even moreso!).  All I can really say to sum all of this up is I am SO blessed!  :)