Two weeks at home with Mom & Dad

The last couple weeks have been great -- Mom & Dad have been off work and have spent so much time with me. While Christmas was a great highlight, we also had our bouts of weirdness around here -- everyone got hit with the stomach flu at some point over the last two weeks (including me). Not fun! But in the midst of it, we did make several memories...

Mom & Dad have a New Years' Eve Tradition of watching 24 with our friends Kevin & Jamie. This year they got together again...Kevin & Jamie got me this sweet t-shirt!

Helping Mom pack away some of my old clothes I've outgrown.

Playing with one of the new toys I got for Christmas -- I love this one -- I can stand up to play!

My crazy daddy put my pants on my head.

Opening Christmas presents.

I got one of those pre-loaded credit cards...my first plastic! (Note the ear-to-ear grin on my face over this thing. Daddy says I'm not allowed to learn the words "Visa", "Mastercard", "American Express" or "Discover" until I'm old enough to pay the bills myself.)

I got this book, too. Mom needs to hold it a little lower so I can see the pictures.

Santa brought me this puppy...I'm tickling his toes with mine...sort of a modified "E.T. Phone Home" moment.

Just happy ole' me in my entertainer. :)

Am I pretty or what?!

My cousins Dessa and Eli.

We wouldn't sit still long enough for the picture, so the parents decided to step in and try. Didn't work so hot either. The three of them used to play all the time as kids. Now we're the next generation of three musketeers.

I got this cool certificate in the mail today. Mom's alma mater (Monmouth College (the Fighting Scots)) said that I'm a "Wee Scot" and gave me preferred admission. Dad kept digging through the envelope looking for "preferred finances" too. No luck there; but we did think this was pretty neat.