Christmas

I'm a little slow posting Christmas pictures. My camera was left in some one's car and it ended up in Salt lake for a few weeks. But here are a couple of my favorite pictures of Josh by our tree. I think this was one of the first few days we put it up so it still looked half way decent.

Josh got a dancing Elmo from Grammy Debbie. He sat in a box and played with Elmo.

Grandma Karen gave Josh a new blankie. Now he doesn't steal mine or Melissa's as often!

Josh was exhausted after opening all his presents. He is figuring out how to undress himself. He pulls his arms out of the sleeves, then through the neck of the shirt. Then he tries to get the shirt off by pushing it down around his waist, but it gets stuck. Sometimes when he's supposed to be taking a nap this is how I find him. One day he was wearing nothing but a diaper. At least he left that on!

This is me taking advantage of one of the greatest gifts I got for Christmas. Nu Skin gave me this portable DVD player, and Josh has decided he likes watching movies on it. It is more fun to watch a movie on the portable DVD player than the TV. He got this little table and chairs for Christmas, and will sit in his room and watch a movie. It keeps his attention for about 30 min at a time, which gives me a chance to get things done around the house. I can do stuff on the computer while he sits next to me and watches something and I can manage to accomplish something without him re-booting the computer several times. It has been a huge help. I thought I was being smart to buy blocks that are soft so that when he throws them at me it won't hurt. He's been banned from playing with some wooden blocks after throwing them at me close range and giving me a visible lump on my forehead and a split lip. Now I realize it may not have been the greatest idea because there are over 100 pieces and his favorite thing to do with them is dump them out of their container, spread them all over every where, and then put the container on his head. I find blocks all over the house.

I love his mischievous face in this picture. He likes to wear his Daddy's hat. We were able to see Gary on the webcam on Christmas Eve. That's the first time we've been able to use the webcam since he's been in Iraq so it was really nice. He had to get up really early in the morning to get on the internet when there weren't many people on the internet. As more and more people got on the internet, it started slowing down and the webcam didn't work as well. Gary was supposed to spend his Christmas Eve day on the shooting range and then was supposed to go on a mission Christmas Day morning, but both those things ended up getting cancelled. Holidays don't mean much over there, but it was nice he had a little down time anyway.