A Very Merry Christmas

Dear Parker,

Let's just say we'll never forget your first Christmas! We spent it at your grandparents house, and it was quite eventful. The day before Christmas I started feeding you fruit. I thought bananas would be a great fruit to get you started. Well, little did I know that they would cause you to be very constipated! You screamed ALL NIGHT on Wednesday. Of course, I didn't really realize the culprit so I gave them to you again on Thursday. You were upset all day and screamed all night again on Christmas Eve. Your daddy and I had to get up at 3:30 am and take you riding around town for an hour! It was the only way we could get you to sleep. We finally figured out the culprit. We stopped by Walgreens and got you some prunes and prune juice. That finally did the trick, and you began to feel somewhat better. Other than that, :) you had a great first Christmas. I didn't take a ton of pictures, but we did take a lot of video for you to have.

Here you are with Abby and Lily before the Christmas Eve service.

Christmas morning at Marmee and Poppa's house

Christmas morning at Gigi and Granddad's house

Last year, we decided that Parker would get 3 gifts from Santa. We figured if 3 gifts were enough for Jesus, then that would be plenty for Parker. (Disclaimer: We have no control over aunts or grandparents). A lot of people think we're crazy and that we won't follow through with it, but we really feel like this is a great tradition to start in our little family.