Merry Christmas!

So behind in updates.  Jack is now over 13months old!  He is walking like a champ and talking up a storm (sometimes real words, sometimes not so real words).  He can say about 15 words now and will sign an additional 5 or so.  Its been a rough few weeks with sickness, thanks to the colder weather and the day care incubator.  The last week he's been feeling great, though, so hopefully this will stay for a while.

Jack is definitely starting his toddler years: he's starting to test us (the sly, sideways smile as he slowly reaches for something he knows he shouldn't touch), wanting to get into everything and starting to think about throwing a tantrum when he doesn't get what he wants (I can't say he's thrown Class 5 tantrums yet by any means, although I'm sure that's coming, he's just testing the waters at this point).  But, overall he's still an easy going, happy kid.

We were in ATL for Thanksgiving and I didn't get any festive photos on my camera, but this is still awfully cute.

We've discovered the pots & pans drawer.

We took a very chilly trip to the park XMAS day in Greenville.  The mittens are way too big, and he couldn't put his arms by his sides because of all the layers, but we think he enjoyed himself.  

This is bundled up for the post playground walk.

Christmas was pretty low key this year. Jack really enjoyed the tree- luckily we don't have any breakable ornaments.

Enjoying the wrapping paper most of all.

While we were in Atlanta, we got some professional shots of the family made.  As you can imagine its hard to get 8 adults and 4 children to even look at the camera at the same time, let alone smile.  :)