Parisian girls, playdates and first kisses, OH MY!

Remember this picture from Christmas, 2007??

Joshua was ready to pop out of my tummy, and these are our friends Lauren, Paul & Elea visiting from France:

And now back to today's story...

Joshua had the priviledge of meeting Elea this year!!

(Little did he know what he was in for...stay tuned, more on that later)

They hit it off very well: She's still a total cutie (as is her mommy!!)
Lauren snuggles with Joshua:
Elea introduces Joshua to the fundamentals of cooking in a pink kitchen.
He was a captive audience.
We grab a quick and squirmy shot of moms & babes:
Then Grandpa Chuck takes over with the kiddos so we ladies can chat!!

Then Joshua tries desperately to hop in the bath with Elea. No luck, bud. And alas, the shocker of the night!!! Elea makes a move on Joshua... And what did Joshua have to say???

"WHOA!!! Yessssss!!"


Hahahahaha...what a fun visit, we love you guys and miss you now that you're headed back home to France!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

Attempt #1 to show you his new teeth.

Nope.

No way.



Not a chance.

Oh well. We'll try again soon!

Sweet holiday visitors!

Our dear friend Melody stopped by with loads of gifts for Joshua from her wonderful family!!

At first he was a little sleepy...

But then the giggles began!!

What a special treat!!

Getting ready to go Christmas party-ing...and trying to get the babe to cooperate in taking pictures. Haha.

He looks thrilled to be taking pictures (yet again), doesn't he?!

At least we're all looking in this one! Haha...

**Enjoy the little moments in this wonderful season!!**

A visit to the old stomping grounds ~ the Gallaudet Holiday party!

You may remember my old job from here or here. What can I say? They like to throw parties, and the holidays are no exception! Except this year was very special because I was able to bring Joshua and introduce him to all of my old friends. What fun we had!!

Below is my old boss, (always the life of the party!), running the white elephant gift exchange:

Joshua gives hugs to "Uncle Paul"!!

(The man secretly behind all of these fun parties!!)
Joshua proudly poses in his Gallaudet University T-shirt with Mary, who kindly gave it to him as a gift!
And, as if we should be surprised, Joshua LOVED all the attention from the ladies!

And the below picture was taken as we were headed out - Joshua was one pooped baby, but he had to pose with our favorite SECRET reader, SUE!!!

(We know you're reading this now!!! LOL!)

We had SUCH a great time seeing old friends and catching up!! Love to all at Gallaudet!! Thanks for having us to the party ~ it was a blast!

More of that cute big brother Christmas Elf:

Yay! Decorating for Christmas among other exciting things!!

And, in case you couldn't guess from our new blog decor...

The cutest Christmas Elf proudly announces:

"I'm gonna be a BIG BROTHER!!!"

Afternoon snack time with Daddy

Their little afternoon ritual...too cute!

My new favorite hiding spot (er, playing spot)

"It's so fun under here!"

A quick (and very delayed!) Thanksgiving recap

We are all thankfully recovering from our various ailments and happy to share the photos from our whirlwind of a Thanksgiving!

We started with a visit to Ya-Ya as she recovered from surgery: There were lots of birds where she was staying, and Joshua was fascinated!

Then out to dinner...

A very quick visit with Papa Bear:
A few more snuggles with Ya-Ya and goodbye!

Then on to celebrate Thanksgiving with Steve's family!

The weekend consisted mostly of this:

More snuggles with Papa John

Too much food!

And we ended with lots of sickness and Joshua's first two teeth!

Thanks for taking care of us, daddy.

SICK, sick, sick and teething...

SICK = Savannah
Sick = Joshua
Sick (2 times over) = Joshua
Teething = guess who?!

Poor Steve is taking care of us both...

Love to you all and pictures sometime in the next week (hopefully ;)

Snuggles & pouts (a good combo, right?)

We're still "vacationing" for the Thanksgiving holiday, so this will have to tide our Joshua fans over until we return! :)