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Davey has such tired eyes in this photo, but doesn’t he look like such a little boy?

We had a great trip home. Davey wasn’t too excited about sleeping in a different place the first night, but he adjusted just fine the next day. (We’d gotten in late, and he’d been sleeping for 2 hours in the car – I think he was just a bit disoriented.)

On Christmas Eve he enjoyed dancing to the Christmas carols. He also enjoyed meeting his cousin Caden. Caden is just a month younger than him. Christmas Day was fun – we went to Mom and Papa’s in the morning and then in the afternoon he had a good nap. We saw Kev’s family in the late afternoon which was great – over at Ang and Kelly’s. For dinner we went to Johnny and Sara’s. Davey loved playing with Addie, Deven, and Jaiden. Johnny cooked for us. We decided we only want to eat Johnny food from now. I told him “gosh he could be a chef somewhere”. 🙂 Sara made great desserts too. We were glad that Rob and Angie could make it too!

I will post some more pictures of Christmas.

We came home the day after Christmas. It’s a four hour drive, but it takes us about 6 hours. We have to stop several times with the little boy. He did really well though. He completely melted down – had had enough of his carseat. Luckily we were seriously about 1/2 mile from home when it happened!

Yesterday was my birthday and it was one of my favoritest birthdays.  We stayed home and had a great day.  David made a cake.  Red velvet with cream cheese icing.  He worked very hard on it and followed the directions on the box to the letter.  He even had to go borrow a toothpick from Janis because we didn't have any, and that is what the box required for checking the doneness of the cake.

I wanted to put 41 candles on the cake in order to have a real inferno but David didn't think the cake could withstand the heat or multiple candle punctures. Jerry and Janis came over and had cake with us.  Davey also ate cake.  I let him go nuts with his slice, and he did not disappoint.  He was covered with red cake – probably not the best type of cake to make a mess with, but it all came out and off. 

I am trying to remember to record the little fun things that Davey says or does.  For example sometimes Davey will wake up around 6am and we will bring him to bed with us.  Occasionally he will go to sleep, but mostly he likes to climb around.  Sometimes though I will fall back asleep, and I am told that I sometimes – rarely I am sure – snore.  David says that Davey will try to make snoring noises too and it makes Davey laugh.  (I am glad someone finds snoring amusing!)

Last night he went to bed, but then was awake because we realized he had a poopy diaper.  David got him up and said that he had a poopy.  Davey said "poopy"  "poopy".  It was the first time he'd said it, and it just sounded so cute.  Who knew "poopy" could sound so sweet?

Here's a goofy family picture.  My eye is doing something droopy and strange and David wasn't thrilled with his hair, but I love how Davey is looking out of the corner of his eye over at David. 

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I thought I’d blogged this picture, but I can’t find it now. I got lucky and got some nice pictures of Davey playing with that pretty morning light shining down on him.

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This picture is a little blurry, but I love how he is concentrating on his little car. He loves that hood in the front. Yesterday, I noticed that he had put one of his little toy cows in there. The head was peeking out. I should have taken a picture of that!

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Davey loves to be outside. Luckily it was beautiful out on Thanksgiving Day and he was able to walk and walk and walk and sit some and walk some more.

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We are not watching much TV yet, but for maybe 20 minutes or so we will sit down and watch some Sesame Street. I got a couple of videos from Netflix and they are Sesame Street Songs. Currently Davey loves “Do the Duck” as sung by Ernie and friends. He also likes “Operatic Lullaby” as sung by Denyce Graves and a large muppet ensemble to Elmo as he tries to go to sleep. David and I like “Between” sung by Wayne Brady. I think we like that one more that Davey does. 🙂

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Davey has been getting a lot of wear out of this red vest. Michael and Holly sent it to him for his birthday. I love it. It’s perfect for carseat wear. Here I took a picture of Davey enjoying some “snacks” and “ahhhhhh”. He says a word that is across between snacks, and nax. We are still having a bit of a time trying to get him to drink out of his sippy cup. When we can get him to drink from his cup, he will often take a big drink and then let out a big “AHHHHHHHHHHH”. Apparently Daddy does this frequently after taking a drink – (I guess I don’t even notice this anymore after more than 20 years. :)), and Davey picked right up on it!

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We have a beautiful sugar maple here at Mama Pearl’s. We had a lot of fun taking pictures of Davey playing in those leaves!