Santa, Grandpa, and Grandpap

Luke recently found a Duluth Trading Co. Catalog that had Santa on the cover....herewith, the results of his findings:

I Love Santa Part IV

Where we finally make it to Christmas morning...

Luke woke up bright and early on Christmas (the first time anyone has beaten his cousins downstairs)

He quickly got to work going through all of his great presents



Reading with Uncle Steve


After a good nap, he quickly got to work checking out the tree


Tube Break!

Christmas Day was also the debut of Luke's full-on crawling


He also enjoyed pounding on Peter


Chewing on the new Goodnight Gorilla


And generally acting goofy

While this marks the end of the Christmas holiday proper, there are still pictures from Goofus & Gallant's (and their parents' and Aunt's) foray to Hoboken, a visit to the Cloisters, and an outing to the playground to cover! Stay tuned....

I love Santa Part I

This was the first Christmas for Luke, and he celebrated in style (even if he is still getting the knack of opening presents, or for that matter, figuring out what presents are). Thanks to family and friends, he had a great first Christmas, getting all kinds of presents, enjoying the Caseys and Conerys, and even figured out crawling.

Since we were spending the holiday in Scranton, Luke kicked off Christmas by opening some presents from Katie, Sophie, Emmett and Andy (thanks, guys!).


And then it was off to Scranton. Luke was a bit under the weather, but his cousins, Peter and Ian, quickly swung into action, playing with him, endlessly entertaining him, and reading his favorite books (and some old ones that belonged to his Dad and Aunts).



They even helped out with his bath, giving Luke his biggest bath time audience ever.


Exhausted, Luke went to bed with visions of sugar plums in his head....