Well - Time sure flies doesn't it. Between Oliver's arrival, Christmas and increasing amounts of work the past couple of months have just been a blur. I finally managed to wrap up the last of our Christmas shopping yesterday - the snow storm provided excellent cover to keep the crowds at bay in the different shops. Two days before Christmas and Wal Mart was a ghost town!

We managed to keep up with most of the Christmas stuff this year - we got our first real christmas tree this year. Erin loves it, my skin doesn't. The putting up of the Christmas tree resulted in a pretty interesting reaction all up my arms - needless to say it'll be long sleeves next year (if I can't talk Erin back into our nice "looks real" tree). Erin did her usual fantastic job of decorating the house, giving us a great festive feel.

The only thing we didn't get around to was Christmas cards - they just didn't make the schedule this year. So if you didn't get one, you haven't been taken off the list or anything - no one got 'em. We'll be sure to send extra nice ones next year.

Oliver is doing great, every week brings something new for us (and him). Every week his "stories" get a little longer and a few new sounds are thrown in. We're in the licking and tastng phase it seems too, everything seems to take a pass by his mouth if he gets it close enough. So far he's been a really happy, mellow baby (knock on wood) - he doesn't really seem to have a fussy time, if he's acting up there's usually a reason. And, after 9 weeks, we're finally starting to be able to pick out which cry is which.

He still sleeps a lot of the day, but when he's up he's alert and playful. He'll happily sit and yabber on about something and as long as some one is paying attention to him, he's happy and smiling. Having him for Christmas will be really special - although I suspect next year will be the really fun christmas when he can open his presents himself. Erin was wrapping his presents the other day and commented "It seems kind of silly when you realise that we're wrapping these so we can open them".

The little guy is over 11lbs now and has even gained over 2" in length - he's just starting to grow out of a bunch of sleepers and such. But thankfully that means he's also growing into a bunch of outfits that Erin has just been dying to put him in.

Well - I should run, we're off the to now traditional Christmas Eve @ the Cooneys. We're doing our Christmas morning here at home this year, which we're both really excited about.

Hope everyone has a great Holidays!

Ryan (& Erin & Oliver)

This entry was posted by Ryan, on Friday, December 24, 2004.