Remember When???

Remember when it was easy to take a picture of Michael for his month to month scrapbook???? I do!

Perhaps like this....



Or this....



And now we have...


Or this...



Or maybe this....(Yes, that is a Topsy's popcorn tin and yes, it probably his favorite thing to play with out instead of one of the hundreds of toys he got for Christmas)



And my personal favorite....crawling away from the camera at warp speed and dragging clean clothes that I had just folded with him.




This was month 8 and I've got to say....we did month 9 last week and he cooperated even LESS!!!! He just makes me giggle every day!!!

Holiday Wrap Up

I absolutely LOVE the holidays. I think it has a lot to do with how much I love being with my family. My siblings and I are in place where we (finally) get along most of the time and now that I am parent myself I have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for my parents who raised 4 kids and lived to tell about it. I think the best part for all of us this year was having Michael here. He just brings an a new level of joy/excitement to everything and I'm not sure what we ever did with out him! So here are a few of the highlights!


Santa??


My handsome boys on Christmas Eve after we went to St. Ann's for the Children's Mass!


My super cute parents with Michael on Christmas Eve


All this for me???


Cutie in his "My First Christmas" outfit!


Getting his picture taken before we hosted our Annual Castillo Family New Years Day Brunch for our family and friends!!! So many babies were there this year!!!