Merry Christmas

To say that we had a wonderful Christmas would be an understatement. It started early...as Archer is known to be an early riser. At around 6:30, everyone in the house was woken up by the two toothed monster with a grin on his face. It was as if he really knew something exciting was going on. After everyone made their way down stairs, we prepared to watch what Archer would do with all of his gifts. This was his first reaction when we sat him down in front of all of his presents:

I think he looks like a pretty happy little dude. He began to rip into his first gift (which was one of those old school fisher price telephones, you know...the one with a rotary dial? Santa HAD to get it for him...they are awesome!) He was distracted by the paper pretty quickly, so the rest of us took turns opening our gifts. Archer crawled around as we did this, and occasionally would open another one of his gifts. After we all finished with our gifts, we each took turns opening a gift with Archer. He got plenty of fun toys and lots of new clothes. I don't think we could have made a better Christmas for him. I am very much already looking forward to next year...not only because he will have more of a grasp of what is going on but also because he was SO MUCH FUN this year. After opening our stockings, we then loaded up the car and headed to Breckenridge for a fun little day trip. It was SO beautiful. Nick and I cannot wait to go back and actually attempt skiing and or snowboarding. Here are some pictures from the trip:

Oh, and yes...you did read correctly. Archer is crawling...all be it he is crawling BACKWARDS!! We have read that some kids do that and will figure out how to go forward once they get the hang of all of the movements. He may be going backwards, but I can tell you this for sure...he gets to wherever he wants to go! This leads to a VERY exhausted mommy and daddy. Archers furry brothers don't really know what to do either...they try to do what they can to stay out of his reach...but sometimes he gets a hold of their tails or ears. And who knows...walking is probably just around the corner...YIKES!!