Christmas Break and the New Year

A new thing Brandon has started is saying "Oh-oh" when he drops food or has an accident. He also uses it when other people drop things. He is very observant. In the last post I mentioned how he understands everything we say to him, and in the last week or so, he's been shaking his head up and down if the answer is "yes", and left and right if the answer is "no". He's also surprised us by using sign language to signal some things to us, even though we taught him signs many months ago. This has made it a lot easier to understand his needs and wants. Here's Brandon having fun with Play-Doh.

Last week, we started to sleep him in his crib for several hours at a time, and it's my hope that in a few more weeks, he can sleep by himself. But now let's talk about Christmas. Brandon's Christmas morning is show in the video below:

For Christmas, we had a busy 2 weeks planned. It started by us flying to Denver to see my mom and siblings, and Brandon had fun seeing his uncles and aunt. We went shopping in Boulder and walked around the Pearl Street Mall. He really enjoyed going to the many specialy stores there, especially Into the Wind, where there was all kinds of unique toys to ply with. We came back on Christmas Eve and cleaned up the house for Christmas the next day. We were pretty tired, but Brandon woke us up and we all started opening presents. Zenna got him all kinds of fun stuff, and he loved it. I stayed up late the night before assembling his little trike.

Then we left for Idaho late in the afternoon, trying to make the Moser Christmas dinner. We actually got stuck in some snow drifts near Grant, and were only about 1 mile away. Brandon handled it pretty well, considering he had to sit in the car for 4 hours until he got out. But once there, we stayed a week until New Year's Eve, and came back down to Ogden with Zenna's mom. We stopped in Willard Bay, since the 31st was the last night for Fantasty at the Bay, which was a fully lighted-up park with all kinds of Christmas themes. Zenna's brother Spencer and sister-in-law MaryAnn stopped by later in the night, so that we can celebrate the new year. Here he is wearing his Supreman pajamas on the last day of 2008.

For the last two weeks, we've been trying to get back into some sort of schedule, especially since November and December were quite hectic.