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 :-(