Simpson's Journey

We finally had our first real snow event! We have had some snow but nothing significant. We were suppose to have this big ice storm Wednesday before Christmas and it ended up being just rain, which we were so thankful for! It rained all day Wednesday, Thursday and part of Friday, Christmas day, before it changed to all snow. It started snowing Christmas evening and then all day Saturday and Sunday morning and we ended up with about 5 to 6 inches of snow on the ground! Too bad Cameron is still too small to go out in it, maybe if she was walking already we might have gone out but she will just have to wait until sometime in 2010 to really experience snow. I wanted to capture our first big snow in pictures so here they are!

Finally it is Christmas! Cameron was already awake before 7am and was ready to go! So we nursed and had breakfast and then got ready to open up our presents. It is tradition with Joe's side of the family to give everyone their gifts and then we take turns opening the gifts. So we sat in a circle and that is what we did and I helped Cameron open hers. Of course she was more interested in the paper than what she actually received. Auntie Becky wanted a big basket for her blankets and Cameron sat in it for a bit. Cameron playing with one of her new toys. It is a lion face with balls and a mallet it makes nose and roars! Here is Cameron and her stocking. Cameron received a couple of books a mini pound puppy and some peach puffs. Here is a photo of her toys. Cameron didn't get to open up all of her presents because she was so tired before we were done and ended up taking a nap around 9 am. (We started at 8 am and she was up at 7am poor girl) What a great first Christmas for our Came...

I know I am behind on blogs when it is past Christmas and I am getting ready to post a blog about Cameron messing with the presents under the tree. So I am in the kitchen cleaning up after lunch one day early last week and I didn't know where Cameron was. With her crawling, and crawling fast, I don't always know where she is if I am busy doing something. So anyway I called for her and turned around and saw her in the dinning room with the Christmas tree and presents and saw this. So of course I ask Cameron what she is doing and she gives me this face. So of course I had to get a picture or two of her being sneaky about being at the presents and she was also patting one of her presents. Smart Girl!

This post is really late since we have had our Christmas tree decorated a week after Thanksgiving. See how much of a slacker I am :) Anyway....Cameron really didn't help much but really how much can a 10 month old do? We did let her "help" put on an ornament with each of us to let her do something to the tree. We put her in her high chair and let her watch us put the tree decorations on. I have been impressed that Cameron really hasn't shown too much interest in the tree. Granted it is in our dining room since there is no room in our living room for it so it is out of sight. I do once a day take her to the tree and show her some ornanments and talk about it. Of course, she wants to touch it and I tell her that we can look at it but not touch it :) We can't wait until Christmas morning to see what Cameron does with the gifts she is getting! I hopefully won't take as long to to that blog:)