Side Note: Callum had his one year doctor's appointment a few days after his birthday and it is truly official that this kid is just tall and skinny. He has consistently been in the 95th percentile for height, 75th percentile for head size and 25th percentile for weight. Well his height and weight are in the same range, but he is now in the 15th percentile for weight; too skinny. So now we get to start feeding him whole milk and our doctor wants us to add Carnations Instant Breakfast into his milk. All about the Calories! He will be able to eat whatever he wants for the rest of his life. What a lucky kid. We have a weight check in 6 weeks to see if we can get him back up to a higher weight percentile. So we will see what happens.
This kid seriously loves books! I put him in his crib to play (we are backwards; he sleeps in his pack and play and plays in his crib) and I came back to find him just kicking back with a book. It was so cute! He was holding it up and reading it out loud to himself. I love him so much!
He is getting really good at feeding himself. He is very precise and will work really hard to pick up the little tiny pieces of food.
Callum is becoming a little ham for the camera. I get this look a lot when he catches me taking pictures of him. It is my favorite; the crinkled little nose just kills me it is so cute.
For Christmas eve Brigham and I go to the Stapley family Christmas Eve party which is always a ton of fun. There are always a lot of people there and the kids all play together and there is yummy food, presents for the kids and then John reads the Christmas story from the Bible and the kids all act it out. This year, all the little girls wanted to be Mary because the youngest child/baby gets to be baby Jesus and that was Callum this year, so they all wanted to be able to hold him. It was so cute. They did a really good job.
All the cousins in their Nativity best
Ireland was the lucky one and got to be Mary
Callum is unsure of what is going on
Presenting baby Jesus with gifts
Seesters!
My family has a tradition every year to open one present on Christmas Eve and it is always a new pair of PJ's. I love this tradition! It is so fun to be able to open one gift early, and who doesn't like new jamies!
Grammie holding up her halo with her horns :)
Christmas morning.... SANTA CAME! Our tiny little Charlie Brown tree looks a little forlorn, but this little kid sure did make a haul. Santa knows him really well, he brought him a whole bunch of books!
Again, he is unsure of what is going on
Family Christmas Photo
After we had a brief little Christmas morning at home, we packed up the rest of our presents and headed over to my parents house, where we were just in time to watch April and Danny and family open their presents via Skype. It was so much fun! Mason and Lily are getting to that super fun age where Christmas is really fun and exciting for them. It was so fun to watch them open their gifts. When they were all done we opened all our presents before breakfast. Callum didn't really know what to do at first, but he catches on pretty quick and when he finally realized that the presents had fun things in them for him, he got excited to help open them.
He loves the dogs!
Chillin with some Cheerios
Callum loves to play with his daddy
Books with Buttons are the best!
He liked to play with the ornaments on the Christmas tree
He just starting sticking his tongue out when his is busy... so funny
I have wanted these shoes for a VERY long time! Every girl needs a good pair of red heels and these are the best! Thanks Santa :)
Christmas was on Sunday this year, which is always fun because there is usually a beautiful Christmas program done. We were going to go with my parents to their ward, but their church starts at 9am with Sacrament at 11am (they only had Sacrament) and Callum still takes two naps during the day. So after we opened presents we put Callum down for his morning nap and Brigham decided that he would like to go to church. So he went with my family and I stayed home with the sleeping boy.
Christmas day is always crazy in my family and I love it! We open presents in the morning and then have yummy egg "Mac" muffins for breakfast, then we go and see my Nannie and Grandpa and then go see John and then we go see my Grandma. I love being able to see all my family in one day. I love them so much! I seriously am so lucky.
There are so many fun things at Nannie and Grandpa's house
One of my new tricks... High Five!
Auntie Heather's favorite part of babies is watching the adults to funny things.... Touchdown!
I am getting better at walking
Callum found a remote and Grandpa John's so he is just kicking back with it
Callum and Max got matching jamies this year... Max is not sure he wants to share his toys
Tried to get a picture with the cute boys, but this is the best we got
Auntie Heather sure does love Callum, and he loves his Auntie :)
Fitt family tradition, puzzles!
My beautiful Momma!
The best part of having Christmas on Sunday is that the day after becomes my paid holiday off of work! Yay! To celebrate we went to breakfast with the Forrests at the Black Bear. It was really good. However, it was not all fun. My sweet little child has a problem with putting far too much food in his mouth; in fact, he will stuff his mouth so full that it gets to the point where he tries to swallow, chokes, and then throws everything up. It is glorious. So yes, this happened. It was epically disgusting and please note that trying to "catch" vomit does not work. Luckily, John had brought us some clothes that he had just cleaned that he had had at his house so Brigham and him took Callum to the bathroom and got him all hosed off and changed... well as hosed off as is possible in a restaurant bathroom, but it was good enough. After that, Brigham volunteered to take him back to John's house and put him in bed while the rest of us finished our breakfast. "You know you are a mom when..." your child throws up all over the place and then you go back to eating your breakfast :)
He got this book for Christmas, it sings and lights up. He loves it
The Forrest Clan
Later that day my Aunt Kathie had a party at her house for the MacArthur side of the family so we got to go to that as well. I am so happy that she did this because we used to get to see all the MacArthur's on Christmas when we went to my Nannie and Grandpa's but a few years ago they decided that it was just too much for them to handle now, so they haven't had everyone over. As a result, it had been a long time since we were able to see that side of the family, and I love them! They are so fun to talk to; Celeste and Lisa (Kathie's two girls) are some of my very favorite people to talk to, and they both live out of state, so it was so fun to be able to see them. Thanks for the fun gathering Kathie! You are the best.
Tired tired boy....
Callum kept flailing around and he actually threw himself off of Brigham's lab and Brigham ended up grabbing him by the ankle at the last minute, so he was hanging upside down by the ankle. Nice catch Brigham!
These are my attempts at getting a cute picture of Callum and Me... he was really tired so he was not about it
Finally, New Year's Eve... Not super fun with a one year old. We didn't really have plans for this year because Callum can barely make it past 7pm let alone midnight somewhere else, but poor Brigham is really really sick so we could not have done anything anyway. The little guy is in bed, Brigham is miserable on the couch and I am updating my blog. Happy New Year!
