Holiday Party

Today Wyatt took part in his very first holiday party. Yep, his daycare had a holiday party. The infants-3 year olds "sang" a few songs. Mainly their part was to shake the jingle bells and wave stars. I was able to get a video of them singing Jingle Bells and Wyatt eventually figured out what he was supposed to do with his bells. It was very cute as you'll see. Unfortunately the video is quite dark but you can see well enough and I have it zoomed in quite a bit so you mostly see Wyatt (he has the Santa hat on if you couldn't tell).

Also, today was Wyatt's last day at daycare. As a quite a few of you know, but I'm sure not everyone, Grace Lutheran Church (where I work) has been forced to make budget cuts as many places are doing right now and as of December 31st I will no longer be employed there. This is definitely unfortunate to say the least but there's nothing I can do about. However, starting January 12th, I'll be taking a Certified Nursing Assistant class in hopes of being able to find a job being a CNA in this difficult economic time. Bert will be done with school in May and then he'll be able to work full time again.

The second video is of Wyatt going ah, ah, ah with an upside-down sippy cup (a drip-proof one); it speaks for its self.



Oh yeah, yesterday was Wyatt's 11 month birthday!

What am I supposed to do with these?
I see, shake them!!!

Thanksgiving fun!

We hope that everyone had as good of a Thanksgiving as we did. First, on Thursday all three of us went to Chippewa Falls to meet Wyatt's newest cousin, Renae. She was born sometime later in the day on Wed. She was 6 lbs. 14 ounces and 20 inches long and very cute. She and mom, Alexis are doing well. Then we were off to Bert's mom's house for dinner with the majority of Bert's family. We had quite a bit of fun playing with everyone and Wyatt like showing off all that he can do now. After dinner Bert, unfortunately, headed back to River Falls to work on Friday and Saturday and I continued on to my parent's house to spend some time with them as well as my sister and her fiancee, Jim. All of us went to my cousin's baby shower on Friday. It was fun to get together with quite a few of my cousins as well as see some of the youngest children playing together (or should I say stealing from each other since they were all too young to really play together). Wyatt found a fairly large toy cement truck that kept him very busy for at least half hour which is saying a lot for a kid who is only 10.5 months old. Then on Saturday my parents and I headed out a got Christmas trees while Wyatt got some time with his aunt and uncle(-to-be). Then pretty early Sunday morning Wyatt, Jim and I headed back to the Cities (Jim had flown to Michigan the weekend before, drove to Amherst with Leslie and needed a ride back to the Cities on Sunday). I think Wyatt is getting used to all of this visiting because he has been pretty much himself the last couple of days which doesn't usually happen after a long weekend; he's usually pretty cranky for a day or two until he gets back into the regular swing of things.

Well here are some pictures from our visitings.

Hammin' it up for the camera!
Showing off my walking skills with Aunt Sandy.
I'll smile only once so get a good picture while you can.
Reading with Aunt Leslie.

Playing with great-grandma Onan.

Do my hands taste good, Louie?
You've got to get me one of these cement trucks, mom!