Christmas 2008

Here are pictures from our Christmas that we spent in Pennsylvania with our families. Anthony really enjoyed his 1st Christmas. He helped tear open his gifts, but loved eating the bows most of all. These are just a few of the pictures. There were way too many to put on, but I hope you enjoy these ones.

Merry Christmas

We wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas.
We hope to see you all over the holidays!

Love,
Jen, Matt, Anthony,
Maggie, Missy, & Annabelle

9 months old today

Anthony is 9 months old today. Only 3 more months and our little baby is going to be a year old already. I can't believe how fast this year has gone. He's not quite crawling yet, but he's very close. If you put toys out for him, he rolls to them or he reaches as far as he can and cries if he can't get to them. At least he knows how to get them! Anthony's first tooth has been starting to come in over the last week and he's been cranky off and on. So get ready family, you will see a different side of that quiet little boy.
If I don't see or talk to you, have a Merry Christmas and I will post lots of pictures when we return :)

Christmas Pictures

Now that everyone is receiving their Christmas cards, we will share Anthony's 1st Christmas pictures that we had taken on December 7th. They turned out so nice.

1st Tooth

Anthony's first tooth is starting to make its way through on the bottom. He was so cranky this past weekend and we figured he was teething, but we couldn't see anything. Tonight I looked in his mouth and you can see where his gum is broke. Just thought I would worn the families now because you all will be dealing with a cranky, teething baby for the holidays! Who wants to babysit? :-)

Santa came early....

Santa stopped by a little early this year to surprise Anthony since we will be traveling to PA next Saturday for a week. Of course he loved the wrapping paper...especially the bow!

Video of Anthony saying Mama

This is the closest I could get to him talking and saying Mama. It's at the very beginning, so be ready. Of course as soon as I started recording, he stopped.

Anthony's first words

Anthony's talking is so cute. He's been babbling, but now he's making a lot more sounds. For a while he was only making cooing noises, then to D, P and T sounds, now he's making M and B sounds. He's been saying DaDa and lastnight we heard him say MaMa. So cute! He's just saying DaDa and MaMa, but not referring the names to us yet, which we know won't happen for a while. It's just cute hearing him say these first words. I don't know if these count as Anthony's first words or not, but it's close enough in my book :-)

Christmas Decorations

We have been decorating the house this week after work and today we decorated outside. Here are the pictures.

Our outside lights

Anthony and Christmas tree

Anthony's Christmas tree in his room

Stocking holder from Dad and Joyce.
We will be getting Anthony's stocking tomorrow. We ordered one from Babies R Us, but apparently the order didn't go through :-(

Anthony's 1st Thanksgiving

We all traveled to Pennsylvania to spend Thanksgiving with our families. Anthony got to spend his first Thanksgiving with his grandparents and many others. He ate sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes at both Thanksgiving Dinners....yes we ate twice! Here are a bunch of pictures from our trip. Sorry I can't put all of them on here, but I will email them out as soon as I get a chance. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We'll be back in PA a little less than 3 weeks for Christmas. We'll see you then!

Anthony in his Thanksgiving sleeper from Grammy & Pappy Kitko

Having fun at Grammy & Pappy's in his new car

With Daddy

Pappy & Gammie were so happy to see Anthony

Playing with Aunt Joyce

Anthony with Mommy, Daddy, and Great Grandma Greslick

Aunt Suzie finally meets Anthony

Aunt Nikki

Uncle Jerry and Uncle Brad

Aunt Kristen (soon to be mommy!)

Pappy reading to Anthony (sorry Joyce, once again, I don't have a pic with you and Anthony, send me your pictures!)

Aunt Jessica

We stopped in for a visit with Great Pap and Gram Showden

Aunt Bonnie

Amy and Anthony relaxed together

Anthony got to meet Michelle and Kendra

Having more fun at Gammie & Pappy DeAngelo

After the long weekend, its time to go home.
We'll see you at Christmas!

1st Snow

I thought the first snow that Anthony would see is in Pennsylvania, but it actually happened this morning here in Raleigh. I came downstairs around 6:15 this morning to let the dogs out and the snow was really coming down. Anthony and I had Daddy take a picture of us in the snow before we left for daycare/work. He could not stop looking at it. We never get snow this early...mostly in January and February. I think this a sign that we may actually get an accumulation of snow this year. We will see!

8 months old (one day early)

For Anthony's 8 month pictures, we took him to meet Santa for the first time. He was so curious and could not stop looking at him. I'm surprised he didn't try to pull Santa's beard since he pulls my hair and Vivian's so much.
I can't wait to see the family next week at Thanksgiving!

Anthony and Mommy's trip to Virginia

Anthony and I went to Woodbridge, Va to meet his Pappy, Grammy, and Aunt Kristen for a day at the Potomac Mills Outlets. We went out to lunch and did a little shopping. Pappy made Anthony a beautiful toy box for Christmas. We got to bring it home with us on Saturday. Thank you so much Pappy!