Christmas in Pictures

Despite having 2 weeks off, the holidays were a blur - because time flew by and Dallas had its first white Christmas in 80 years. People in Dallas freak out when it rains, so imagine when snow actually sticks to the ground. I think people were burning their furniture to some how survive the cold in their climate controlled houses.

Benjamin still wasn't into the whole presents thing. We had to half unwrap each present for him to see the neat gizmo underneath, THEN he was interested. But even that was fleeting. Thinking back, Schmax was more into opening presents to the point where we had to pull him off a package or two. Mental note, don't wrap gifts in bacon.

I think what Benjamin truly enjoyed was having two people dote on him all day - which sets up nicely for a future entry about a soon to be 2-year old's budding attitude and pushing of his parent's buttons.

And now for the part that some of you are more interested in - pictures instead of my ramblings. If a picture is worth a thousand words, consider yourself rich in words!

We often read together as a family sitting side-by-side. Benjamin threw in the nice touch of looking up at me as if to say, "Pa-pa, I do love you so..."

Something about this pic reminded me of the first Superman movie, where little baby Kal-El is in his asteroid ship wearing a super-absorbent red and blue diaper.

Clearly the hilarity of fake sleeping for a picture is lost on Benjamin. Again, nice touch at least putting his head down on the blankie. Maybe in his mind he had 1st watch.

I love this photo. It says "Christmas Morning" to me in so many ways. And you can never tell that Benjamin had a dirty reindeer diaper.

EXTREMELY rare footage of a baby yeti.

Benjamin loved the idea of snow, until it blew into his face. And his shoes started to get cold and wet, because we don't have baby mucklucks. He also hated getting pelted by snowballs. To be fair, I did tell him numerous times to duck.

To give you an idea of how crazy the weather was, this picture was taken the next day. Benjamin is sitting in his sweet new ride - a spacious wagon complete with cup and snack holders. It gets terrible gas mileage though.

Doesn't it look like Benjamin and Emily stopped to admire a stuffed dog in this person's yard?