Happy Holidays....

Joel has been a little bit of a stinker here lately! He has been getting us up in the middle of the night, and tonight, despite the fact that he had only a one hour snooze all day, he screamed and yelled and didn't go to sleep until after 11:00. He has GOT to be exhausted, so hopefully he'll sleep all night. He's out cold right now! This afternoon we went Christmas shopping in Defiance with Grandma. He was a little cranky but not too bad for having such a short nap. We were going to see Santa at the mall, but since it cost $14.99 (!) we didn't. On the way home, we saw that Santa was "in" at the little cottage uptown, so we stopped in for free! I really like this picture of Joel with Santa....it's the only one so far where he is smiling! (I think that had something to do with the candy cane!) I think this is the last Santa visit of the year. It's so fun! He is crawling all over and can't seem to pass up an opportunity to pull on the Christmas tree. He doesn't even seem to care when he gets poked in the face by a branch. Goofball! I also posted here a couple of pictures of one of his meltdowns this week. I know, I'm a bad Mommy for taking his picture when he was so mad, but it had been a long day and Mommy was going a little goofy herself! He definitely has a temper and wants what he wants when he wants it! We'll have to work on that.....More later!