Henry's First Christmas

Bry got his wish and it started snowing on Sunday so we had a nice layer of white outside to enjoy. It was a beautiful white Christmas.

She pulled out a Lindt truffle first which she wasted no time in opening and getting in her mouth. Thus the bulge.
Then she pulled out an apple.

She's so funny.

Both arms in.

Looking at the snow outside.

This Christmas was brought to us by Amazon (mostly). Ha.

The aftermath. Computer was set up to video California family.

Emma was so excited to go out in the snow and have daddy build a snowman.

She wanted a picture with it but only paused for one.

Henry's first Christmas!!

We're so grateful for family sending us a plethora of gifts and feel so greatly blessed. I know I can do more to share my blessings with others and hope to get better at reaching out and giving more. Emma and Henry bring me such joy and I hope to raise them to think of others and to serve others. Emma is constantly wanting to share things with us and I love the joy and kindness she exhibits. Henry freely gives of his adorable smiles and I want him to keep spreading happiness. We are grateful for Jesus Christ and the endless bounds of His love for us. As Emma likes to sing "I'm trying to be like Jesus" and want to become more like Him. 

Four-month-old baby

Henry continues to grow, if somewhat slowly. He's tall (43rd percentile) and lean (<1st percentile) with a small-ish head (19th percentile); mainly, though, he is a happy and healthy baby. We will be able to start feeding him baby cereal/mush and pureed foods which we hope will help him fill out.

He finds his fingers to be very tasty and has them in his mouth most of the time he isn't eating. He frequently smiles at us although he seems to find less familiar people to be funnier than us since he'll laugh for other people who hold him but rarely laugh for us. His toes seem to fascinate to him and he grabs at them. Emma shows him her toys sometimes and he becomes very interested in them. Speaking of Emma, she has warmed up to him more in the past month or so. She continues to help with him as much as she can - grabbing a burp cloth, diaper, clothes, whatever for him. Very rarely does she say she's "busy" and doesn't help.

We're glad to have both our little ones who are filled with so much love and sweetness, and look forward to having Christmas as a family of four.

Here are a couple pictures from our ward Christmas party.

Emma is not a big fan of Santa so I talked with her ahead of time about taking a picture with him.
She told me she would "stand next to daddy" so here she is. She did it.

Our silly girl - she was okay without daddy the second time but still just standing by Santa.
Henry didn't cry for his first Santa photo! He is a friendly little guy.