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Christmas day was fabulous up until the very end. At approximately 11:59 on Christmas Night we were packing up the car to go back to Great Grandma G’s house for a good nights sleep. I warmed up the car so it wouldn’t be cold for Mommy and Baby. I finished loading and went inside to round up the passengers for the ride home. Upon returning to the now warm, and idling car we found all the doors were closed and locked up tight. I jiggled all the handles to no avail. Not one door was open. “Well, merry $#!@ing Christmas $#!@ing car,” I muttered as I kicked the tires as hard as I dared. Everything was in the car; diapers, formula, playtoys, jackets, everything. The passengers went back inside and the following few moments were filled with our measly attempts to ‘jimmy’ the windows of the car. See the picture below for that futile activity. In the end we had to call AAA to come open the car. At this point, as if on cue, Kyle started crying because he was hungry. When are they going to show up! To their credit, 20 minutes later at 12:30, they showed up, and the car was open by 12:32. I knew that AAA membership would pay off someday. We grabbed the baby chow out of the car, and I apologized profusely to Kyle as he sucked hungrily on his bottle. All was well again.

We wanted to wish you all a very merry Christmas!

We posted some new photos from the last couple days, but they are very large since I wasn’t at home to shrink them. “View”:http://www.labrodeurs.org/photos/2005-12/Auburn_reno/ at your own risk.

Here’s “more”:http://www.labrodeurs.org/photos/2005-12/Christmas_eve/

and “more”:http://www.labrodeurs.org/photos/2005-12/Christmas_day/

It’s neat to see all the connections Kyle is beginning to make on how the world works. In our guest room he now helps me turn the light on and off with the fan pull. He now thinks that all ‘pulls’ do something, even though they don’t. Now he tries to turn the blinds on and off. You’d think he’d be disappointed, but they make cool noise so he’s ok pulling them. He pushed the buttons on ‘Daddy’s’ remote tonight, and looked at the TV while doing it. He was expecting something to happen, because when Daddy plays with it the TV changes. Pretty funny. He figured out how to press the button to make music in his saucer playtoy. Now he presses with his mouth! He tries to ‘rattle’ everything he picks up to see if it’ll make noise like his rattle. One of these days he’ll whack himself in the head if he’s not careful. Daddy taught him how to open and close the pantry door tonight. He laughed every time we opened and closed the door. I don’t know if I should have done that. Probably a bad move in the long run. Maybe he’ll forget by tomorrow?

No news, just photos. Busy time of year. Happy Holidays!

Kyle photos “here”:http://www.labrodeurs.org/photos/2005-12/rice_mess/

We took some cute photos of Kyle last week. Here’s a narrative of the one below: “What is that kid doing up there? He’s what? He’s eating my hair? So that’s why it’s all wet up there. OK, there’s only so much of that hair to go around, so lets get down now.”

EVERYTHING goes in Kyle’s mouth these days. It seems like the only thing that goes the other direction is drool, and lots of it. There’s pools of the stuff EVERYWHERE! He must be teething. I expect to see one pop out any day now.

Kyle is also eating very well. He like his rice cereal and veggies much more than his formula now. He’d eat just ’solid’ stuff if we’d let him.

He seems to have a fascination with all things ‘grown up.’ He wants the food off of our plates, the drink in our glasses and loves to try to drink out of a real glass, even if he just coughs and sputters after taking too much at once. He also loves his Dad’s grown up toys, like the computer keyboard and mouse, and the TV remote control. We finally had to give him a remote and a keyboard of his own. He LOVES banging on the keys and eating the remote. Mmmmmm. He’s such a ham.

Here’s some “photos”:http://www.labrodeurs.org/photos/2005-12/Man_of_the_hour/ of his activities.