Boy Matthews: Christmas Spice and Other Ailments

Merry Belated Christmas to everyone. Our holiday season has been BUSY! Thus the lack of blogs about the baby. Everyone should be unhappy to hear that he is feeling quite under the weather lately. We are pretty sure he caught a cold from his cousin. He walks around with a terrible cough and just an abundance of snot (I know, ick..right?) running down his face. He has learned that when I come at him with a baby towel to do two things - run, and pucker up his little lips so I can't quite get to his nose to wipe it.

Our Christmas started on Christmas Eve. It started hectic as Marty was at work until almost 6:00 and then we had to run to his Nana's in Augusta, but once we got there and found out we weren't the last to arrive, the night seemed to slow down and relax. I handed Marty the camera and told him to take a bunch of pictures - which he did ..mostly of himself. So my pictures I have available are very limited (unless you want to see pics of Marty's eye...then his other eye...then his hair...then his mouth..then him smiling, then frowning...yep, you get the drift.) Marty and I "see" things very differently through the camera.

Group shot at Marty's family's Christmas Eve:

And another:

Very determined to open his gifts before the other kids do:

Mommy and Baby hamming it up on Christmas Eve:

Opening another present:

We left relatively early (I think this is the first year that we made it home before midnight) and got Ezekiel to bed so he could be fresh for Christmas morning at my mom's house. Marty and I cooked a huge breakfast for everyone of sausage, bacon, eggs, hash browns, and muffins. After eating it was time for gifts again. By this time, Ezekiel had the idea that inside that pretty paper, there were new surprises waiting for him.

Here he is trying to convince Grammy to just give up the goods (notice the lack of shirt - a family trait of mine is to take off your clothes and make yourself comfortable, no matter the occasion):

Not sure if he likes the present or the gift bag better:

OOOHHH, his own phone so he can call Grammy like Mama does:

Christmas morning video:

Playing with the drum from Grammy:

One of his favortie gifts is this little Fisher Price learning chair that he got from Grammy. At first, he loved it for its intended use:

Then he discovered that Grammy actually bought him a step stool!

For him to harrass the fish:

And just be plain old Spicy-Boy:

And, a video of him using the chair:

End of the day diaper change...why is it that Beckie always insists on holding the kids down with her feet when she changes them? I think she has a foot fetish...