His First Christmas
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Our Christmas, in (mostly blurry) photos
I will really miss that gummy, drooly smile when his teeth decide to pop through.
Happy Day!
Photography
His First Thanksgiving and Christmas Jammies
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Our first holiday season as a family of three is off to a really sweet start. On Thanksgiving morning we woke up and had some family snuggles (and photos) before we headed to my parents for the day.
Are they the sweetest? Or are they the sweetest?
His first Thanksgiving, his first piano playing experience, and his first time falling asleep in his pack n’ play in the workout room at my parents.
On the eve of December, I put Dwayne in his first pair of Santa pajamas and got out the camera. The photo session didn’t go quite as I planned, but we made it work.
I posted that last photo on Facebook and got a really cool response from our friend Leah. She said “This is the perfect Christmas card. <3! I love what it symbolizes. 1. I pray when we look at our kids we want them to see us looking AT them not past them as we parent and 2. as we look at Christmas I pray Christ becomes the forefront and the ‘holiday’ dimly glows around the light of Him”.
It’s not at all what I wanted to capture. I wanted him under the tree. Smiling at me. But he wouldn’t sit still and anytime I’d back away he’d crawl straight to the camera. This photo isn’t perfect. The focus is off and I’ve cut off essentially all of my subject, but it’s everything I needed to capture. And I needed that reminder from Leah. Christmas isn’t all about the Santa jams and the light of the Christmas tree.
Christ is the forefront and the holiday dimly glows around the light of Him.
This boy is so loved.
Happy Day!
Dwayne Henry: 7 Months Old
I had about 45 seconds to capture those photos before he realized he was in his crib and he wasn’t tired. Gotta love the predictability of this kid.
He’s crawling and pulling up on everything. He loves food and unfortunately is still allergic to cows milk protein. I was able to have real pizza though and cheese on sandwiches for a couple weeks until he started showing signs of the allergy again. He had a pretty major sleep regression this last month (or two) but I am starting to think the last couple weeks of little sleep was because of the dairy. He’s starting to show signs of pain too so hopefully the change will take affect soon.
He loves the Christmas tree and is terrified of me vacuuming and using the power drill. He’s starting to show signs of separation anxiety when I leave the room. And there is a stain glass lamp at my parents house that makes him so so happy. He will stare at it and very gently touch it for so long. Hilarious boy.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. This boy is so so loved. He brings the joy like nothing ever before.
Happy day!