Red Ball

Ever since he first spoke, Rock has been talking about balls. "Ball ball ball!" he yelled as we approached Target the other day. Once we figured out what he meant, we let him climb around for a bit.

Too bad we couldn't take it home.

Christmas Cookies

Earlier in December, Nana Kerry invited everyone over for dinner and promised a surprise activity afterwards.

The surprise was Christmas cookie decorating!
Our decorating started off normal enough.
But we quickly moved to more non-traditional ideas. See the bikini-on-top-jeans-on-bottom-angel on the top left and the ghost of Christmas past on the bottom right.

A pile of Christmas cheer.
Some of Kerry's decorations were a few decades old. We weren't sure if the red used above was icing or food coloring. Regardless, it can increase the creepy factor of a cookie in seconds.

It makes excellent blood.
Fix's target cookie.
If I had blond highlights and wore too much lipstick and I was a cookie, this is what I would look like.

Rock went into sugar-shock sampling our work.

Keys

Like many curious children that have come before him, Rock is very interested in his mother's keys.

Apparently he has figured out what to do with them.

Please nobody tell him that this is just an old door that doesn't open anything anymore. We have plans to make it into a full-length mirror someday.

Sunday Best?

On my friend Lynn's blog, she often posts pictures of her daughter in her "Sunday Best."

Which inspired me to take a few shots of Rock in his church clothes. But I think that perhaps it's a bit easier to capture sweet girls than rowdy boys on film.

These are the best shots that we got. I just love this dog sweater that I got for $2 at Target.

Rock loves it too.

Happy Birthday Cokie!

On December 6th we celebrated Cokie's birthday with a nice meal and lots of one-on-one grandson/grandma time. Make that one-on-one-plus-the-baby-doll.

Pie Crust

It's never too early for a young Fix to learn his grandmother's famous pie crust recipe...

This is his stirring face.

Adeline

So after we got back from Florida, I had the pleasure of watching Adeline for two days to help out her mom, Lynn. I took Rock along so they could bond.
On the second day, I plopped them down on the couch for a photo shoot.

But when Adeline sat still, Rock was blurry.

And when Rock sat still enough to "show me his teeth," Adeline was blurry.

So the photo shoot didn't really work. I said "Okay, enough pictures. Rock give her a hug and I'll take you off the couch."

He tried.

She (wisely) pushed him away. And we were done.
** It should be noted that although Rock and Adeline are approximately the same size (well, except for that head -- will his body ever catch up?), she is a good 6 months older. And you can see much cuter pictures of her on her mom's fabulous blog. **