Robbie's First Christmas

Robbie in his "First Christmas" sleeper and matching "First Christmas" santa hat. He has learned to clasp his hands together. As you can see he actually let us put this hat on him and he seemed to like it!

This is Robbie playing with Kevin's favorite toy that Robbie got from Santa. He received some Auburn balls - football, baseball, basketball, etc.

This is a horrible attempt at Mommy taking artistic photos - see Brooke, I told you I was not at talented as you! As you can see, my foot is holding him in place. But I was trying to take a photo of him under the tree as our "gift" this year.

This is just a silly picture of Robbie.

This is another silly picture, but it really shows his Christmas outfit that we got. I just loved his outfit.

More Catching Up

Here are some pictures of Robbie's first Christmas. This isn't even close to Martha Stewart beautiful, but wewill get there!

Here is Robbie's first Christmas tree. Kevin, Robbie and I had so much fun putting it up. I am continuing my family's tradition of trimming the tree with Christmas music and hot chocolate. Robbie got tired and fell asleep, but Kevin and I enjoyed finishing up. I usually insist on taking a trip to the tree farm and cutting down our tree but Kevin put his foot down this year because he got stuck all the work of a real tree. I couldn't be happier that he did, this tree is beautiful and the lights are already on it - so easy!

I couldn't help but share this pictures. Robbie is napping in his chair and we got a perfect picture of how he likes to sleep - just like his Daddy with his hands behind his head! Also, the onezie that he has on was given to me by my step mom, Cheri, and it says that Grandpa (Frank, but can also apply to all his other ones!) is my hero!

Just a cute one of Robbie. He is wearing this adorable outfit that a friend of Kevin's dad, Robert, Jr, gave to him. Below you can see where she embroidered his name on it. We love this outfit!

Here is his name on the shirt, it is just too precious! As you can see from the picture, Robbie just loves us messing with him to take pictures!

Catching Up

I am posting some of my old photos from the past few months - be patient, it may take me a while! The outfit above was Robbie's "First Thanksgiving" outfit. The picture was taken about a week after Thanksgiving because he made a mess of this outfit about five minutes after we had him in it on Thanksgiving. In fact we had to change his outfit twice that day! Fun, fun! But I just had to post this because I thought this was just too cute.

This is a picture of an absolutely precious outfit that our good friends the Hamilton's gave us. It was actually the first baby gift that we received. We had planned on using it as his baptism outfit (which is scheduled for Feb 15th) but he has already out grown it :(

I just had to show this, it is just too cute. It is a drawing that my two nephews, Nic and Own, made for Robbie. They live in Omaha, NE and have not met Robbie yet, but they are pretty excited that they will meet him in March!

Not Again!

Kevin and I went to pick up our Toyota last night because the shop called to say they were done with the repairs from the tree damage. Thankfully I have a wonderful husband who has a multitude of skills because he took a look at the work and refused to pay for it. He showed the guy at least a dozen issues with the work that they did and also pointed out a few new dents and scratches that they put on the car while they were "repairing" it. Can you believe that? I hope Breakaway Honda does not try to pass off this type of work on every car they repair otherwise there are a lot of people driving around out there with shoddy work! The paint job they did looked dimpled like the outside of an orange and they didn't even attempt to repair the damages on the roof - I guess they thought we would not get up there to look at it and verify the work was done. Any way, we are hoping to get it back today but I am not holding my breath. I am really ready to get our second car back though because this one car family stuff is not easy!

On a more fun note, Robbie is really learning to make different sounds with his mouth. It seems that he is really close to making raspberry sounds, but we aren't quite sure. If I can figure it out, I will try to post some video of him. He really is the most adorable little man, Kevin and I live for every moment with him. We hate dropping him off in the morning and look forward to picking him up all day long. If only we could get paid to stay at home as a family!!!

Thanks, Kline Family

Kevin, Robbie and I went to our good friends, The Kline's, for dinner last night. Bridget made an INCREDIBLE dinner. I am still craving it this morning! They live just a few blocks away and sometimes it feels like miles - it takes us forever to getogether! We also played some Wii games with them and you will probably find this as funny as I did that their almost three year old legitimately beat Kevin at one of the games. It was so much fun to watch. We were joking that we missed the video games from our age - the ones were you could be lazy to play and sit down instead of the ones now where you need to move around! Robbie really enjoyed interacting with their two kids, Carter and Ava, but he seems to especially like "talking" to Ava who is about six months older than him. They kept looking at one another, squealing, talking and trying to touch each other. It was adorable! We joke that they will one day be boyfriend and girlfriend - if that is true I feel sorry for Ava . . . her boyfriend's parents will probably drive her crazy . . . well Robbie won't have it so good either because Tommy will be a scary daddy!

Looking Up

Things are starting to finally look up. We got our Nissan back from being fixed and it was $100 less than we thought, but unfortunately the hood is a different color than the rest of the body. I offered to drive it for Kevin, but THANKFULLY he declined. I promised him a new car as soon as he gets out of school! Our Toyota is in the shop this week getting the dent removed, so we will get that back on Thursday and be all done with car issues. Our computer is back and Kevin is almost done reloading everything. I am so thankful that he can do that because I would not have the first clue. He asked me what I do at work when something is wrong with my computer and I said, "uh, duh, I call IT!" I only know how to turn it on and off.

Robbie is getting more and more interactive. He is starting to roll over, which is like watching a close game of football for his parents. We are right there cheering, "c'mon, c'mon, almost there, yah!!!" What dorks we are! He smiles a lot and is very talkative. I blame that on Kevin and he blames it on me, I think that everyone who knows us would say that Robbie didn't have a chance at being a shy kid. He has already grown out of his 0 - 3 clothes and is now wearing 3 - 6 months. I want to just cry when I compare them to the newborn sizes. I miss my tiny cuddly baby, but I am so excited to have this laughing, smiling person to play with.

Kevin and I went to a friends house for a child's birthday party on Friday night. One family had one child, one family had two, one had three with one on the way and the other family had four. Kids were running around everywhere, it was a total zoo . . . and we couldn't have loved it more! We can't wait to add three more to our clan! Before you all panic though, don't worry, we are going to wait until the timing is right with Kevin's school!

Anyway, we are doing well and looking forward to this weekend. It will hopefully be nice enough to get outside and do something fun. Plus, we are really looking forward to watching the superbowl. I am cheering for the Cardinals because I like their quarterback, yes, that is how I choose my teams. I wish everyone a great week!

Again??? Are you kidding me???

So, another funny story . . .

Kevin was suppose to go to a seminar this weekend in LA. He wanted to try to save money so he purchased a red eye back after his seminar ended on Saturday night. He was just taking a closer look at his itinerary today and realized that the flight was booked back for Friday night's red eye and not Saturday night's red eye. The airline said that he must not have been clear and Kevin swears up and down that he told her exactly what night he needed and even double checked with her before getting off the phone. I travel enough to know that I wouldn't trust the travel agent!!! Poor Kevin, it seems nothing is going his way lately.

The bad news is that he had to cancel his seminar but the good news is that he we get to spend the weekend together as a family and I am going to insist that we get out and do something fun! I just looked at Kevin's cousin Brooke's blog and she and her family do so many interesting things that I made a decision to get my butt out of the house and do something fun too! Does anyone else get stuck in the rut of staying near home on the weekends to clean house, do laundry and cook for the week??? Work, work, work. My dad was not kidding when he said that being an adult was not fun and full of work!

An update on Robbie - he is still a sick little guy. Has a very chesty cough, is not eating much and (sorry to be gross) has not had a poopy diaper in two days. The poor guy is just pitiful and we hate to see him like this. It really breaks our hearts! Even though he is not feeling well, he still has some smiles and laughs to go around when Kevin and I act incredibly silly - he loves it when we yawn and sneeze. We usually have to fake these and look stupid, but we don't care because we get to hear his adorable giggle and see his cute smile!