Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Eve at Gramma and Poppy's house. Mikey stayed up pretty late...he had to see and snuggle with all of Daddy's family!!

He loves his cousins Nick and Vincent!

Well, there was too much stuff to choose from, so Mikey didn't know what to play with first!

Pay no attention to the haggard lady helping Mikey...lol...He had fun opening all of his gifts.

Merry Christmas!!!

Birthday Presents!

Here we are opening presents...he especially likes his little alphabet pal from Aunt Vicky!

Mikey really liked the cake, and "shared" with mommy...well, my sweater anyway!

dig in!

Get ready for cake!

We had a little contest to see who would dig in first. Sydney won, but by mere milliseconds!! This is just before we sat down to let them dig in!

M1, M2, and M3

Well, once again, I'm late getting pictures posted. These are from Mikey's 1st birthday party with his cousins. My baby boy is 1 year old!!!

Hi !!!

Hi there!!!

Playing with Bailey...I think he'd be happy to just play with the dog and a remote control all the time.

Playing on the floor with Gramma

Playing in the family room. He was chasing Bailey again.

Mikey and Daddy

My two cuties :)

Ok, so he's kinda leaning on the wall, but he is standing. I wasn't fast enough to get him while he was standing in the middle of the hall trying to take the remote away from daddy!

After work greeting

I thought this was adorable...which is why I grabbed the camera...this is how I was greeted when I got home from work on Thursday. My baby boy jumping up and down, and Bailey wiggling next to him. What a nice welcome home!!!

Fun in the tub

Hi there everyone!!! Mikey REALLY loves his bath time now. He crawls into the bathroom faster than lightning when he hears you turn on the water! I think he just likes to splash mommy!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!

Hi There! Sorry that I'm always a couple of days late with the holiday pics...I'm trying to catch up on some homework that I didn't do while my fam was in town.

From the left: Me, Michael, Mikey,

my sis Tracy, bro-in-law Mike, and nephew AJ, other bro-in-law Eric, and sis Amanda.

Play time!

Mikey and his cousin AJ got to play together a lot over Thanksgiving. They were pretty good considering they wanted whatever the other one was playing with. No fighting or crying, they just kept taking things away from each other. It was pretty funny actually!

What's pumpkin pie without whipped cream?

Doesn't my little punkin' look scrumptious?!

Mmmmmmm....whipped cream!

Ok, maybe I'm a bad mother, but this was fun...he needed a bath anyway...lol

Thanksgiving Dinner

Mikey got to try just about everything we had for dinner. He likes it all, so it wasn't any trouble getting him to try some new things!!

Bouncing baby boy

Can you believe this cute little boy is 11 months old??? It feels like just yesterday I was complaining about being sick of being pregnant, now my cutie is almost a year old!!! Time sure does fly with this little guy around!!!

My Angel, all ready for bed.

What a face~!...he hates being in the play pen, but I need a break here and there!!

Mikey LOVES this cute walking toy!!!

Happy Halloween!

my little "squirt" and I went trick-or-treating tonight. Just for a little while though, it's not like he can eat any of the candy he got, but I didn't want him to miss out on his first halloween!!

Mikey, Gramma and Vinnie.

Mikey and Anthony

My god-son Anthony spent the weekend with us. He was a HUGE help and he and Mikey got a lot of playtime together!

Chicken and rice anyone?

Mikey kept grabbing for his bowl. Usually I don't want to deal with the mess this creates, but I figured he's got to learn to feed himself sometime. This was after we took a few bites with the spoon and threw it on the floor.

Licking the bowl...he had to get all of the rice!!!

Rice Dinner

I let Mikey have his bowl when dinner was almost done...I thought this was pretty cute!!! He sounds like he's answering Gramma, but it's just baby talk...still, I had a hard time keeping the camera still when I started laughing!

Thursday at Debbie's

Mikey had a blast at Debbie's house on Thursday...he has LOTS of toys to play with there and he enjoys every minute!!!

I was trying to get a picture of Mikey sitting in my big office chair...because he holds on to the arms and it's cute. However, when he sees the computer, specifically the keyboard, he just won't sit still!

Ok, so I thought he was supposed to play IN the jumperoo...Mikey has a different idea though!

Playing with Bailey

Actually, Mikey wants to chew on Baileys toy, but that's just gross, so I took it away right after I took the picture!

This picture, taken by Matt Ersing, is for all of the people that keep asking me why I jump out of "perfectly good" airplanes...you don't get to see a sunset like this from the ground!!!

Houseboy Hypoxic Homecoming weekend...

Houseboy was back last weekend with the caravan from Sky's the Limit, so we had to welcome him back in style.....which means we made really bad homemade t-shirts. Of course, Mikey had to be in on the action.

The theme was Houseboy's Hypoxic Homecoming...we'll do anything to get a little extra altitude!

DZ baby

My friend Matt had some fun taking pictures of Mikey at the drop zone. As you can see, there have been some safety modifications made to the jumper...cut away, and reserve handles had to be added, and he's got his own toggles for proper steering capabilities.

Mikey and his 2nd cousin Amelia playing on Daddy's bear.

Daddy with his little buddy.

my little flirt

Another one from August, but as you can see, Mikey is having fun using whatever he can to stand up!

This picture is a little old, but it's cute!