Christmas 2009

Christmas, with Gianna as a 17 month old, was amazing this year. It was so much fun to be able to help her open all of her gifts. It was also great for Mike and I to be with our family for the holidays.

Gianna made so many new memories: making cookies with both Grandma's, having lunch with Great Great, playing in the snow for the first time, talking to Santa on the phone, playing with all of the new toys, watching Sesame Street on the computer (specifically Elmo), learning to sing her "ABC's" (which goes like this...A..B..C..D..C..D..C..D -- she gets stuck), watching Nator work on her farm on face book, making Christmas dinner with Grandpa Ralph, and many more.

Here are a bunch of pictures from the holiday:

We can't believe that it is 2010 - - and that in another month, Gianna is going to be 1 1/2. Her vocabulary keeps growing as she repeats everything we say and she recently started to want to climb up the stairs, instead of crawling. Just this past week, she looked at Mike and I and said "Mommy, Daddy. Sit. Please". The hardest thing right now is to understand a lot of what she says. We just tell her to take our hand and show us what she would like.

Happy New Year!

Side Note: I'm going to try to post more over the next year. Sorry for the reduced frequency towards the end of the year.