Merry Christmas to all

Merry Christmas Eve!

We had Christmas with my family yesterday at my sister's house.

Benjamin was happy to pose for the camera (Thanks, PopPop for helping to get that smile!).

Benjamin was quickly over the pictures though.  lol.

Taking a minute for a family photo.  The all black was unintentional, but we took the advantage of it.

In case you missed that face.  (Touched up with photo editing, thus the color difference.)

Smiling for me that evening. :)

It helps that he had a full belly.  We made use of the real fruit teether prior to this photo.  

See the post below this one.

Then, I used the rest of the banana that wasn't in the teether and his brand new mashing bowl to make up some fresh banana baby food.

Before:

After:

It comes with a thing to mash it with that looks like a smaller version of a potato masher.  It works very well!

Another Christmas gift put into use...Baby food containers for freezing.  Those pears, carrot, and sweet potatoes from the other day are now frozen.

This morning we had our Christmas at home with Benjamin.

Of several gifts we received...

Josh got me a pair of Sterling Silver earrings with the Ruby birthstone (Benjamin's).

I love them!

Benjamin made, with a lot of help from Mama, a reindeer picture for his daddy.

So far we've had a great time celebrating Christmas.  Still more celebrating to come. :)

Real Fruit Teether

This is after several minutes chowing down on the teether.  It has a banana inside.  (FYI:  Banana is a pain to get out of the mesh afterwards).

Yes, I'm entirely proud of my 5 month old's fine motor skills.  He's becoming quite adept at taking things out of his mouth and putting them back in.  He's been practicing with his pacifier.  This teether is new as of this afternoon (It was one of his Christmas gifts from Grammy & PopPop).  He seems to like both sides.  ;)

More pictures tomorrow!