Our First Family Christmas

This was the first time Griffin met his cousin (Tracy's nephew) Drew. When Griffin was not sleeping, Drew was always there to make Griffin laugh, but as soon as Griffin started to cry, Drew thought Griffin should go to bed.

There was no shortage of people to entertain Griffin. My cousin Michelle came from Scotland to spend Christmas with our family. She just had to buy this singing balloon, lucky there was a limit to how many times it would sing. Also here is Tracy's niece Rhiannon, who took care of Griffin when I was busy making dinners.

The whole family in the PJs. For the most part my sister (Sharon), her husband Mark, Drew and Rhiannon spent most of the day in their PJs - Rhiannon did not get out of her PJs most days.

Most of us did spend out days in PJs, it was a time to hang out and relax. With all the snow and cold weather we had, it was a good time to play board games and watch movies. This was the first white Christmas in Vancouver in 40 years! Of course I will never live it down, since I told everyone before they came to bring wet weather gear because it hardly ever snows or gets below zero degrees. Boy was I wrong!

After Mark made waffles for breakfast, we all sat down to open presents. As is true for most kids Griffin's age, the paper was the more exciting part of the presents.

We are expanding Griffin's food selections. He now enjoys carrots, squash, peas, avocado, yams, and apple sauce (Auntie Sharon's homemade apple sauce). So far Griffin will eat whatever is put in front of him, just like mum.

It will not be long before Griffin is crawling around the house. He is rocking on his hands and knees. At times he will push himself forward, but has not figured out how to get his hands moving at the same time as his feet.

Yep, Griffin still looks like his father.