Christmassss

One of the best parts of having grandchildren is that the holidays are so, so, so much more fun!  Gram is so lucky to celebrate with my two love bugs, Huxey and Otty!  We had our family Christmas at Gram and Grandpas then celebrated Christmas Eve with all of our relatives from both sides of the family.  It was a busy, fun and memorable night:)

We decided to take the crew sliding this year before eating on Christmas Eve and it was a hit.  Definitely a tradition that we will continue.  The Fab 5 Cousins had a great time and the adults just as 

much.  

The end of the night after sliding, eating, gift opening and playing!

Bouncing

Back in the day Mama Livvie use to be quite a bouncer (as in bounce to sooth) not kick the bar crew out;)  So much so that her first birthday cake had Tigger on it to represent!  Well, I'd say that we've got some momma genes in our sweet, little Huxey as well.

He has begun to really enjoy the bouncer in good ole momma fashion.  It reminds me of stories I use to hear of myself as a babe bouncing the horsey across the room with exuberance.  Maybe Momma Livvie got it from her Momma and Huxey has a bit of his ole' Grammy in there too;)  

Here's to intensity...  Oh boy!

Gram's Bday

We had a busy week celebrating Gram's Birthday

Gram and Grandpa got to have a yummy dinner and play cards with Aunt Shirley and Uncle Doug to start off my birthday celebration, then celebrated again with family at Otty's house and lastly a final Birthday Celebrate with my girlies (Anna and Liv) for a dinner and a movie.  I'm so, so blessed!

On my real birthday I got to play tag, slide down a little tykes slide (very little), play trains and watch a movie with Otto and Grandpa. Otto had the day all planned, except the part where Grandpa took a nap during the movie... but I don't think Otto noticed;)









              Who says getting old isn't fun?

Santa

Poor Otty, eventually you will love Santa, I promise.

Huxey's Baptism

Our little Huxon was baptized this past week at our church.  There was a lot of support from the Johnson Crew, including our cousins who came up from the cities.

We had a great time visiting and welcoming Huxey into our church and went over to his Mamma and Daddy's house for chili and cake afterwards.  All was delicious and it was fun to spend time with family.

Otto enjoyed playing with the cousins running around in the church and playing with trains at Aunties.  He even offered to leave with Sara when they got ready to head back to the cities.  Love that our family has this new generation that will grow up together and know the fun and love of cousins for their whole lives.  One of the best parts of being a close-knit family for sure:)

Huxey doesn't realize how much fun he's having;)

Fiona was a big fan of Hux and Otto.  There was a large display of affection with hugs, kisses and warm baby head rubbings.  

We are all truly blessed with such a loving and wonderful family!

Huxey Sleepover

Gram and Huxey had a sleepover this week.  I love spending a block of time with Huxey because I really get to see his full personality in the 24 hours I have him.  He is a sweet, lovable and funny baby who can give a smirk like no ones business;)

Huxey was really great the entire sleepover...except when it came time to go to bed in the crib.  There are two challenges lately with Huxey.  A crib aversion, and a nap aversion, which hopefully both will be rectified by mid January when Gram starts taking care of Huxey on a regular basis.

Our family use to call Otto "no nap Ot," and I believe we need to come up with a catchy name like that for Huxey as well.  Of course, the female adults in the family are 100% to blame because we love holding those babies when they are little.  We have taught them that being held is totally awesome, and we have nothing else we need to do.  Well,  Huxey is a good learner, and has decided that (A) holding for naps is perfectly acceptable at 5 months and actually preferred.  And (B) It's dark in the room with the crib at night, so he'd rather again (A) be held while he sleeps.

Fortunately for Momma, she has started to see progress in the crib sleeping while in his own room,  Gram not so much.  So Huxey and Gram and Grandpa had a nice 10 hour sleep in our king size bed from 9pm-7am.  There was plenty of space, so why not! Hey, there are worse things I could be doing, right??

We had a good long snuggle fest the next day and Huxey spent a lot of time standing, and is becoming a good sitter on his own with only moments of "tower of pisa" here and there.  He is teething like crazy and fingers are in mouth while talking and talking.  Just a great big 5+ month old of love and fun!  Gram's so blessed:)