Wy-O's First Christmas

Okay, so one of my 2011 "goals", not resolutions, was to update the blog more frequently.  So far, I'm failing.  But, given the fact that it's only January 13th, I still have almost an entire year left to redeem myself!  Random sidenote: Today is January 13th.  This means that if Wyatt had been born on his due date, he would be 6 months old today!  But, alas, the little stinker didn't want to come out until July 17th (and not even then without a fight), so we'll wait a few more days to give the 6 month update.  Try to contain your excitement.

We are still trying to get back on schedule after a whirlwind of a December.  First things first--Sam passed his national board exams!!!  We got the great news at the beginning of December, which was perfect!  Sam had 3 weeks off for Christmas Break, I had 2, and it was SO wonderful to spend the time together with our little man and not have to worry about school or work AT ALL!  5 months from now he will be Dr. William Samuel Ward, D.D.S.  Boo-yah!

Our break started off great with a couple fun Christmas parties and a "dinner & the movies" date to celebrate Sam's 27th birthday, but then came to a screeching halt on his actual birthday when I came down with the nastiest stomach bug of 2010.  I spent his entire birthday in bed with a trash can by my side, thanking the good Lord for the phenigran shot I got earlier that morning.  As if that weren't bad enough, Sam came down with it ON Christmas Day, then both my grandparents, my mom, and both my brothers got it on the 27th.  And to top it all off, we traveled to Lawton after Christmas and left on the 28th, but not before passing the bug on to both of Sam's parents as well.  We kind of felt like angels of death, but in reality, I think sweet little W was the culprit.  Everyone kept kissing him and passing him around, which meant they were passing all the germs back and forth as well.  Luckily, the little guy never threw up, and (knock on wood) I think everyone is healthy again now.  That was icky.

Wow, this post is getting long, and I haven't even talked about Christmas yet!  We were blessed to see both sides of both of our families during the break.  We started off with the Baird Christmas...

Where Wyatt got not 1, not 2, not 3, but FOUR Sing-A-Ma-Jigs from his Grandpa Baird...

We then spent some time at my mom's house with my mom, brothers and Grandma & Grandpa Qualls (while unknowingly contaminating all of them with the nasty stomach bug).

We decided to start our own family tradition of Christmas Eve & morning at home, so here are a few of the obligatory "no make-up, pajama" pictures...

 Wyatt actally really enjoyed helping rip off the wrapping paper--way more than I thought he would...

 And he also LOVES the Sophie the Giraffe that Santa brought him...

Christmas Day we headed back to my mom's for the evening, where Sam spent the entire day in bed, but not before we got a few pictures.  I think he looks pretty good, considering how bad he felt...

The day after Christmas we headed to Lawton to visit Sam's family, but got a VERY late start due to the stupid stomach virus.  I am going to blame the illnesses for the reason I don't have many pictures of our time in Lawton, because Sam is always MUCH better about taking pictures on the camera than I am.  If anyone in Sam's family is reading this, please send me any pictures you have from Christmas!  Here are a few I did remember to take on my iPhone.

Wyatt helping unwrap his new Leap Frog...

 which he is obviously VERY interested in...

And here is the mountain of gifts at Sam's parents' house.  I think it's safe to say that at least 1/3 of these were for Wyatt from his Grandma & Grandpa Ward...

Playing with Grandma...(and Sophie the Giraffe)

 And helping Grandma Wink celebrate her 87th birthday!!

We got home on the 28th and unloaded all of Wyatt's gifts onto the guest bed.  I felt really bad for him, because he really didn't get much for Christmas this year...

FALSE.  But this little Santa loves them ALL!! 

We are so blessed to have such loving, amazing families. And if we had created a Christmas card to mail out to all of our friends and family this year (which we obviously did NOT), it would have looked something like this:

Whew, that was a long post.  If you're still reading this, I'm impressed.  Here's to updating the blog more frequently in 2011...Happy New Year!

Rewind...

So back in October, when Wyatt turned 3 months old, we had Mandy Stansberry take some pictures of him.  I hadn't posted these pictures, because we turned them into photo books and gave them to our families for Christmas, and I didn't want to ruin the surprise.  But, now that Christmas is over (that post will be coming soon), I decided to go ahead and post a few of my favorites.  Here they are...

 

Mandy did a GREAT job--we were SO happy with the way they all turned out!  My only regret is that I didn't submit any of him in the little Baby Gap owl hat to The Gap during their casting call! :)

Confession

I really stink at blogging.  I think about it a lot, but can't seem to find the time/energy to sit down and actually type up a new blog post nearly as often as I want to.  That being said, I don't really have time for a full blog post right now (surprise, surprise), but wanted to reassure you that at least I THINK about updating my blog on a regular basis!  We have lots to update on (Christmas, New Years, Wyatt's first taste of solid foods, etc.), but a quick picture will have to do for now...

This smiley boy loves the new jumper thing my mom bought him to play in at her house!  Happy Wednesday!