Merry 1st Christmas

It's early in the morning and I was awoken by something on our rooftop!!! Santa must be here to deliver our presents--and I forgot to leave cookies out (complete rookie mistake) and so hopefully Santa will eat some of our bananas instead. We are celebrating here at home, and Wes will be cooking prime rib complete with all the trimmings. Our holiday music will be playing and we're due to open our presents first thing this morning. We are also in the process of madly doing laundry and packing for our trip to Bakersfield tomorrow morning. We will be with tons of family up there to extend our Christmas Celebrations to include Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Grandparents and Great Grandparents! We thought for sure Seanna might wake up with her "two front teeth" so we will have to wait and see!!

We wish all of you a Very Merry Christmas and hope that Santa brings you everything you've asked for--Wes and I are very blessed to have Seanna in our lives as well as all of you. We could not ask for a better Christmas Present this year and always!

PS Seanna has photos for all of you too, but I have not had a chance to get them mailed so I will probably have Wes drop them off to Lynn (sorry about that...)

Love to all, Wes, Heather, Seanna and Axel

Whew-it's been a long week!

I have to say, this has definitely been one of our most challenging weeks to date as Seanna really isn't feeling very well with her new teeth coming in (hopefully very soon). She is chewing on everything and anything, is having challenges drinking bottles and sleeping and generally, in her own little way, saying she does not feel very well. We did manage to slip in some fun holiday events though when she was feeling up for it! Earlier in th week, we were invited to High Tea with some of our friends and we enjoyed a storyteller (Seanna and I were sitting on the floor listening until she got so excited that she started interupting the storyteller in her very loud voice--I have to say it was hillarious! We went to the back of the room, but she still loved hearing the story and then we sang Christmas Carols and she loved that even more). She also met Santa Claus for the first time today and we met some other friends out and about and enjoyed a very beautiful fall/winter like day before the big rains come into town. She also decided that my folded pile of laudry looked like something that she wanted to dive into yesterday, so I've included the photo of her playing in what had been my folded pile of laundry. She is getting really close to crawling and does more of an army crawl with a dive to move forward and if that doesn't work, she rolls to her desired destination. You can't turn your back on her for a second as she will be off to the races before you know it. Hope everyone is enjoying this holiday season and we wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

So Many Changes!

Wes, Seanna, Axel and I all celebrated Thanksgiving at home this year, for the first time in a very long time! We normally head up to Pismo Beach to spend Thanksgiving with family, but Wes was on call this year and we decided to cook our own dinner at home. After so many years of not cooking the meal, Wes and I were a little rusty, but laughed alot and had a wonderful turn out afterwards. Seanna surprised us all that morning as she found her voice and started hooting and hollering from the moment that we got her out of her crib. She was excited for Thanksgiving too and she made it an extra special one with all of her input!!

The following day, Wes and I celebrated our (10) year anniversary--it's hard to believe that the time went by so quickly! We enjoyed the day together as a family and went to the park and many walks. Seanna enjoyed the baby swing and Axel just loves going to his old parks where we took him as a puppy.

On Sunday, we had a wonderful visit with all of Seanna's Birth family members at a local spot up in Fountain Valley. Everyone was there and we all sat around and enjoyed all of her changes over the last few months. She's already grown 5 1/2 inches and is getting ready to crawl as of the last few days. She is able to push herself up on her knees and is "scooching" forward--she can't believe this new and exciting activity that she has discovered. I believe our lives are about to become alot busier!! :)

Speaking of busier, I have been in full holiday mode trying to get ready for the season that is coming upon us so quickly! We have decorated the house with lots of lights and pointsettas in celebration of Seanna's first Christmas and getting presents wrapped and stockings hung!

Hope everyone is doing well and hugs and kisses to all...