There is something so special about baby's first Christmas. The wide eyes, trying to grab decorations, eating the lights, the laughter at our contagious excitement, the eating of the wrapping paper, the grabbing the icing bowls, the winter boots, hats, mittens, dancing around the living room to the Christmas music... can you tell that we love Christmas at our house??
Since we left on December 17th for our Christmas Trip (see the future posts of "Our Merry Little Christmas Part 2 & 3) it seemed like our official Christmas was all finished before Christmas actually even arrived! The second that the US Thanksgiving was finished, Nica was excited to put up the tree and start to prepare the home and do Christmas cooking for the parties we were hosting!
Joe has taken it upon himself to be the baby-food maker in our home!! He love peeling and cooking sweet potatoes, peas, carrots, and pumpkin for Wes!!!
Here is Wes helping to hang up his little stocking that Mommy & Daddy bought him last year before we knew who he was! It was a special stocking for us last year, knowing that we'd have a baby by next Christmas! And now this year, our precious baby helped to hang it on the tree! So special.
Our beautiful tree...getting closer to completion!
Our little sweet heart...
Our family went out one evening and did some Christmas shopping together. Wes just attracts girls no matter where he goes! These photos always crack me up.
He's such a ham! He loves the attention.
Our Christmas shopping evening in the crisp Shanghai air wasn't complete without our visit to Starbucks for their Christmas coffees! yum!
We stopped by the Hershey factory of Shanghai to get some stocking stuffers for each other's stocking! (Christmas shopping for each other is always best done together, in my opinion! We had so much FUN!!!)
Little Wesley (aka my little teddy bear) all bundled up in his teddy bear suit. Perfect for the crisp Shanghai air...and sooooo fun to just snuggle.
Joe's school Christmas dinner...and an evening out for the two of us! Always fun to get dressed up and go out with my hun!
The cutest little family of Santa's helpers I've ever seen! :D
After the dinner we just strolled HuaiHai Lu...the Magnificent Mile of Shanghai!
Wes seems to have forgotten how to hold his bottle by himself, so Monkey is put to good use!
We said goodbye to our dear friend Dominic this month. :( :(
Our cell group had been meeting at his house, so now we're praying where to meet. Possibly our place, we'll see if people want to travel our even though it's not central to everyone in the group. We'll keep you posted about that! We miss you, Dom!
We enjoyed a fantastic little Christmas village that was set up close to our church one weekend! Darling little stands filled with Christmas baking, gifts, and experiences. We got some fun little gifts for each other (Nica found her cookie cutters!!!) and enjoyed the Christmas atmosphere!
Wes enjoyed some time with some of his little buddies this month!
Here he is with Simeon (from the US)
And shopping with his little buddy Stefan (from the Czech Republic)
And Micah (from Hong Kong)
We also got invited to another birthday party this month! Little Janie turned 1 this month. We've got a whole new genre of party invitations now! So fun! :D
We had a couple of Christmas parties at our house...and taught our Asian friends how to decorate Christmas cookies! Not many made it to the plates, but we sure had fun doing it together!! :D
Wesley getting kissed under the mistletoe! hehe
Wes enjoying his first bar of Swiss chocolate!! (thanks, Marlene!!)
creative cookies
Micah helping us to child-proof our house. ;)
Wes has graduated to his big-boy stroller seat this month! Look at my little baby, so grown-up. sniff,
On our Family Christmas Night, Joey and I introduced some new traditions to our family! We had some beautiful Christmas books given to us, which we had fun trying to read to Wes (and not letting him eat the pages! haha)
A HUGE thank you to Nica's Aunt Darlene for making Wes his first stocking!! Christmas Eve came early in our house, as we opened our gifts the night before we left on our trip. You can't tell from the photos too much, but Wes was SUPER tired and anxious for bed! So we snapped the photos, then Joe and I ordered our own Christmas dinner (Mexican!) and enjoyed our Christmas "Eve" night with the baby in bed. ;)
I'll post the rest of our Christmas experience soon! This was definitely just the beginning of our Christmas adventure. Thanks to all of you for your prayers throughout our adventure! We sure miss spending time with you guys over the holiday seasons. We can't wait to see you soon, for Miriam & Lauren's wedding!! Yay!!
Finally, for your enjoyment, a few music videos that amused us this season! This one reminds us of our own Christmas night at home together! haha
and this one just makes us laugh
Merry Christmas!
Joe, Nica, & Wes
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