Santa came to Queen Creek on the Polar Express

Santa made a special visit on Christmas Eve to pass out bells from the Polar Express! Austin wasn't sure what to think but he liked grabbing the beard. He really enjoyed grandma Katie telling the Polar Express story and watching the train scene on the big screen. He is rolling all over the place and it looks like crawling will be happening really soon. Right now it looks like he is swimming in the air. Once that belly lifts up, the crawl is on!

Merry Christmas from Austin!

Here is Santa's helper preparing Christmas. There are actually wrapped presents under the tree now haha! It's funny how when you are the adult Christmas comes too fast without enough time to do as much as you want to. He loves the sound of ripping paper so he is going to have a blast on Thursday! We are hoping everyone has had a wonderful holiday season and gets to enjoy their family. We are so lucky to have Tom's parents join us for Christmas and we are having a special Polar Express party with Tom's cousin and their kids!

Swimming on Thanksgiving

We had the Bickmore family reunion at our house for Thanksgiving which included about 50 visitors. We kept the pool heated and everyone swam on Thanksgiving-can't beat that. The kids kept wanting to put their face in Austin's floating Duck and were making him laugh. It was cute. All three of us ended up with a cold after everyone left. Lots of nose blowing but we are all almost over the cold. We lost our camera cord which is why we haven't posted pictures in over a month. We are back in business:-)

Austin and Gregory

Austin was named after his cousin Gregory Austin. Gregory just turned 14 and was smiling and cooing with Austin on him to take a picture! Austin is still sleeping 11 hours each night. He takes 3 naps on top of that. The naps aren't always super long but he gives us sleep at night and we all couldn't be happier about it. He still loves eating his hands and sucking his thumb occassionally. He is now able to scoot around in his Elmo chair with wheels and loves his exersaucer. The exersaucer also bounces and he is really getting into bouncing. He had his 4 month check up and is just barely shy of 19 pounds and is 26 inches long.