'Tis the season!

What a tremendously FUN age Silas is and what a great time of year it is too! I am so excited for Christmas to see Silas in his sweet little pajamas opening up presents on Christmas morning!! He is really getting the army crawl down and has figured out that he can make his way over to just about anything he wants to – including the cats! Silas has also figured out how to get back into a sitting position from the crawling position. He gets to going backwards first and then eventually makes in up onto his bottom. It's pretty funny to watch 'cause he does go backwards for bit before he gets the hang of it. I can't help but laugh. :)

He's starting trying to stand up in the bathtub - he can pull himself into the standing position and gets pretty mad when I sit him back down. He's kind of all over the place in the bathtub. I think he just gets so excited that he doesn't know what to do - stand up, hit the side, pick at the bath mat, grab at a toy, grab at the drain, roll over...there are so many options!

We set up our Christmas tree lastweekend and I attempted to get some pictures of him in front of it. Once he figured out the tree was behind him, it was pretty tough to get any picture of him holding still. :) I did manage to get a few cute ones.





Silas started at a new daycare this last week. He's going to Mercy daycare, right across the street from where I work. I only have a 30 minute break and I feel like if I went over there for only a couple minutes, it would be tough when I leave so I doubt I'll pop over there on my break. He did a good job on his first day and his teacher said he was "quite the charmer". I wouldn't expect anything less. :) He does have a way with that beautiful smile and sparkling eyes - I think he could melt any heart. I was nervous about switching daycares and had e-mailed my family on his first day asking everyone to pray for him (and maybe me too). :) My Mom told me that my Dad prayed that every single person that met Silas that week would fall in love with him – prayers answered! The ladies love him, he waves “bye-bye” to everyone that leaves and even managed to charm everyone at the mall yesterday too. My Dad's prayer keeps popping into my head whenever he flirted with people at Von Maur...everyone falls in love with him!

Silas has gotten the waving down for “bye-bye” and “say hi” - it's SO CUTE! I was on the phone with my Mom this morning and I said “Silas can you say hi to Gramma?” and he started waving at the phone. How sweet is that? And when it was time to go, I said “say 'bye-bye'” and he started waving again. Just melts my heart! Any time he hears “bye-bye” the hand starts going.

Anyway, that's all for now. I still have lots of Christmas shopping to do which is tough with a baby, although he is a good shopper.