More to Come

Dear Friends and Family,

I have more pictures to come before this year is over with. I have a super tight deadline since I have procrastinated for the last three months and three days left before it's 2012. I know...I know...I tell you all I will do better blogging but I am fibber now. I am not so good these days. Since we have been trying to sell our home I think Aaron and I spend most of time cleaning and picking up after a growing baby that is curious about everything.

Henry is 15 months old now and we have had a great holiday season so far. We had three Christmas celebrations...We had ours on 12/18, The Martin's on 12/19 and The Wu's on 12/25. We have been so privileged and grateful to have the Martin's here with us in town and have been able to travel to see the Wu's in Reno and Houston. He loves his Grandma, Grandpa, Yei Yei, Nai Nai, Uncles, Aunt and Cousins.

The cousins play super well with each other. Henry loves to hang with the older kids. O and S are growing up so fast and so well behaved. I miss them so much. I wish they were closer to us. The day we were leaving Houston, I was holding H, the boys and Uncle Steven at the table eating breakfast and O said, "Aiyi (Aunt in Chinese) I am going to miss you." My goodness...to hear that sweet voice say something so sweet put tears in my eyes then and now. Anytime I have to leave my family I cry...yes...cry. I actually have a very tender side. Ha!

Alright peeps...have to go to bed. Early start in the morning. Nite. Nite.

Testing Mommy's New Camera

Mommy and Henry. Henry's still 13 months old but quickly approaching 14 months old.

Our sweet son. Henry is thinking we are nuts because we took a million shots that day.

Now is this cute or what? He's our life. We are truly blessed!

Thanksgiving at the Martin's

Grandparent's cooking Thanksgiving Dinner for us. Look at that beauty!

Loves turkey.

So happy at dinner table.

Japanese Maple Leaves in the Martin's backyard. How beautiful is this shot.

We had a great Thanksgiving this year. We had a wonderful meal. Henry loves turkey. I was thinking this is the best meal for him because he would get sleepy after his meal time....Not! Not my baby. He was super happy and not sleepy one bit. Henry spent lots of time with his grandparents. We played and played, ate and ate....what fun! David had company this year at Thanksgiving. His friends from KC were able to spend the holiday time with us. They hadn't seen H since he was first born.

Side note--COE: Since I have a new camera now....shouldn't use such a high res even though they take awesome pictures. They are taking forever to upload onto the blog. I normally can upload five pictures at time,now only one picture at a time. Argh!

Annual Christmas Lighting Ceremony and Party

So again we attended the annual Christmas lighting ceremony at the Square. We had a nice dinner with friends and later watched the lights come on.

Chocolate....Yum!!!! He didn't care for decorating. All he wanted was the icing!

Nightmare! No...not really. He was actually fun watching him. He didn't want to smash his birthday cake so I got to enjoy the moment.

Ready or not...

Loved wearing his apron. He was super fun at Caleb's party. Probably because the Cotton girls were with us.

So we attended Caleb's 5th birthday party. It was a cake decorating place in Springdale. Henry had a blast. Thanks for the invite Caleb O.!

Firefighter Pancake Breakfast

Henry standing at the back of the fire truck.

His bestie Grayson.

So since I have known Aaron we have always gone to the annual Firefighter breakfast at the Station. We have carried this tradition and now we get to share this moment with H. This was his second annual visit to the fire station. The fire fighters put on another great breakfast. Henry loved all his pancakes and sausage patties. It was nice day and later that day got to watch some Razorbacks play on TV.

Halloween 2010 on the Square

Henry 2nd Halloween. We went to the Square again. It was a Gorgeous day!

Best Friends.

Went to Mr. Bobby's office. Henry had a great time there. Mr. Bobby had the biggest bucket of candy for him.

Does Grandpa look so happy or what?! He's pretty crazy about his grandson.

Isn't our Monkey the cutest thing you ever seen?!

Proudest Grandparents

Our sweet family

The picture was on Halloween Day. We went to the Chaney's home. Henry went to the neighborhood parade and came back and passed out! He was tuckered out.

Reno Baby!

My Uncle Charlie's 80th Birthday. We celebrated it at a local Chinese Restaurant in Reno.

Henry and Dada....He was a great kid on this trip!

Wu Family in Reno

My sweet parents.

Me:) Look at the view in the background. My Uncle Paul took us to Lake Tahoe for the day.

Aaron
You guys are probably wondering where H is....he was in the car asleep:( Don't worry Uncle Jamie and Aunt Melissa were watching him.

So we traveled to Reno in early Nov for my Uncle Charlie's 80th Birthday. He is the eldest on my dad's side of the family. We had a wonderful visit. Henry got to meet all his Great Aunts, Uncles and Cousins. We of course flew to the West and Henry was a awesome traveler. He did sooo good. We couldn't be more lucky. The flight attendants were all praising him and said he was the best 13 month old on the plane. I would say that is a great compliment.

The Day After

This is my favorite picture.

Henry was having so much fun.

Henry heard a dog in the neighborhood. So he was saying, "Gou."

Henry pulling weeds around the tree.

Henry and Grandpa

Henry wants a Louis Vuitton too! J/K Aaron. I promise you I won't buy him a Louis. Maybe a Hermes wallet instead.

We are in the Pre-Op are at North Hills. The staff were all so great to us. Henry was playing before taken back with Dr. Manning.

Henry had tubes put in the day after his birthday. He did well. The process was very quick however the crying and screaming after his recovery was AWFUL. He cried for like 45 minutes just while we were there. The minute we came home Aaron took him for a walk. He calmed down and even fell asleep in A's arms when they were sitting at the pond watching the water. He maybe took a 45 minutes nap all day. This kid was wired and happy the entire day. He's such a champ. Later that afternoon we went to Daddy's office to hang out. We had a great time playing with Miss Laura. Miss Brandy W. was there too. Later we went to see Henry's tree. Grandpa and I were taking lots of pictures with him at the tree. He had fun and actually didn't want to leave the tree. It was so cute.

Happy 1st Birthday Henry!

Henry's smash cake. He didn't like it all. Guess he doesn't like getting dirty like his mommy.

Didn't have anything to do with his smash cake.

Playing at the play area.

Henry and Grayson staring at the balloon.

Eating his lunch like a big boy.

Henry staring at the Moo Cow at Chick-Fil-A

Opening all his great birthday presents!

Sorry all, Henry had more fun playing with all the curly ribbon.

Digging to find his present.

Heading down to Doe's for dinner.

Well we hit a milestone this past week. Our baby boy turned one year old. I really don't even know what to think besides time has flown by. I know I say that a lot but really...it has. I guess people with children would believe me. I love Henry and I love love love being a momma. It's tough but I love challenges.

On Monday, 9/20 we went and visited an ENT Dr for consult to get tubes for his ears because since Jan '10 Henry has had six ear infections. Dr said, "What about Thursday?" I was like sure thinking it was the following Thursday. Nope, he meant this past Thursday. We were like let's do it and Happy Birthday Henry. What a wonderful gift the day after his birthday.

Henry had a great first birthday on Wednesday, 9/22. He woke up super happy without a whole lot of sleep. This past few weeks Henry has been teething super bad so he hasn't been sleeping well. We started out our day going to the North Hills Surgery Clinic to pre-register him for out patient surgery then we went to the Willow Creek hospital to visit Kim, Buck and Baby Kate. She was born on Tuesday, 9/21. Miss Kate was so pretty. Looks like an angel! Then we went home and picked up Uncle Jamie and Aunt Melissa so we can all go to Henry's birthday party at Chick-Fil-A. Henry had a great time playing in the play area. Henry ate really well and was really good until we brought out his smash cake. He didn't want anything to do with that cake. After his party we came home and Henry was still up so we let him open his presents. He loved opening his presents and playing with his toys. He got so many great things.

Thank you all for making his birthday such a wonderful day for our little boy.