Christmas

Merry Christmas from us! (even if it is a bit late)

It's Christmas time!! After picking up Aunt Carrie, Uncle Chris and baby William we trekked on down to San Antonio. Alex got a little car sick on the way..... nothing says it's Christmas time like a little curdled milk spewed all over the place. Funny - come to think of it, Alex has only gotten car sick when we are going to see cousin Madelyn. Hmmmm.. Coincidence??

As you can see we do Christmas a little differently in SA.

Alex had to get into the action too.

"Plane" fun

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I think baby William looks like me!





Tickle Tickle Tickle

Whoopsie.... we'll say Willie's laughing.

Almost got it figured out..... I am a super genius, you know.

Nobody wanted to be the first to break into the gingerbread house so Alex took charge. That's good sugar just waiting to be eaten!

Testing out all the new gadgets.

There was a little down time too. Don't laugh all the COOL kids are doing it like this. Did you notice I finally got my hair cut - just compare it to the ones in the birthday pics - dad has my back he knows all that hair causes us Glowacki boys to get warm.






Then it was off to Houston for round 2 of Christmas festivities. The car ride to H-town went much smoother. More sleeping - less spewing.













Since we missed the main event we came up with some new Christmas traditions. We all went to the zoo. Good quality time with Pa and his lovely wife that has yet to be properly named. (We'll call her Grandma Kris for blog purposes.)




Alex and Pa


















Christmas time may be Alex's favorite time of year just because of all the balls that appear everywhere!







Of course we saw all of the Glowacki clan. Here is Auntie Ann, Uncle Shawn, and best buddy Jaxson. Jaxson got some really nifty toys for Christmas and Alex tried to steal them. Unfortunately for Alex, Jaxson was fully aware of the attempted thievery and put a stop to it.












There were soooo many toys to play with, but a favorite had to be the Mr. Potato Head man glasses.




All too soon we had to head back to The Netherlands. There was a nice surprise awaiting us on our arrival. But more on that in the next entry. Merry Christmas!!!

Birthday and new baby cousin!!!!

Guess who turned two! That's right it's me!!




December is always an exciting month, but throw in a birthday, plane rides, family you haven't seen in months and a brand new baby cousin and it just gets a lotta crazy. Alex turned 2 on December 8th and we celebrated with a small birthday party with our favorite new friends and lots and lots and lots of balloons. Ryan will claim that he blew all the balloons up himself, but I did a good 3 of them.

You may ask yourself, "What makes up a good party for a two year old?" Well let me tell you.....



There should be lots of screaming and funny faces.







Blowy outy noise maker thing-a-ma-jigs.








Good friends







Good women (you gotta love a girl that knows how to appreciate food)






Music, lots of music. (our neighbors really LOVED this part)






Of course cake with a bit of fire.

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He looks rather pleased with himself, doesn't he?

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Presents - lots and lots of presents. Here is Alex working away in some of his new birthday gear.

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Oh and did I mention the balloons?? (Ryan wanted me to make sure no one forgot all of the balloons HE blew up)

Yup - it sure is fun turning 2.









Then it was off back across the ocean for a whirlwind tour of Texas. Starting in Houston, Pa and Grandma (name yet to be finalized) picked us up from the airport. We spent a couple of days there to re acclimate and it was off to Dallas to visit GrandDad and my new baby cousin. Carlye failed to get a bunch of pictures - blaming jet lag of course - but did capture these keepers.





Meet baby William Hauser Haden. Or little Willie as we like to call him.










Alex liked to check on and pet the "BeeBee" (translation: baby)





Christmas time is almost here. But we will save all of that for the next blog entry. Until then --

One last look at Alex enjoying all the balloons that Ryan blew up. He'd plowed into the pile a couple of times before I was able to get the camera so some of the enthusiasm has worn off, but it is still pretty cute.