Sofia & Joshua Gordon Jeff and Angie's tribute to their children

Christmas was rather quiet.  Christmas Eve was just Sofia, Mom, Dad, and the dogs.  It was nice though.  Christmas day we went to Great Uncle Bill’s house so Sofia could meet her second cousins.

Lately Sofia has become upset easily if anyone holds her besides Mom or Dad.  This is obviously a concern seeing as how she is about to start day care in a couple weeks.  Dad will be taking her by the daycare a couple times this week so she can become more accustomed to the care providers there.  We don’t want her freaking out her first day when she realizes Mom and Dad aren’t within eye shot.  The following week she will start half days at daycare, then Angie’s mom will pick her up and take care of her in the afternoons.  We are hoping this will help ease this transition.  Of course the day care people tell us she’ll be fine and it is always the parents that freak out.  I hope that is the case, because we are certainly freaking out!

Enjoy more Christmas photos below.

Christmas Eve at home by the fireplace

Opening presents is fun!!

Maybe I’ll just eat the bow

Flash opening his present

Lola trying to figure out what we want her to do with the pretty box

Sofia and 2nd cousin Melissa

With my Great Uncle Bill

With Great Aunt Qurisha

Christmas was celebrated early this year with the Grandparents.  Angie, Jeff, and Sofia will wait until Christmas eve to open our gifts.  Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure!  More to come soon.

The tree

Mommy and me!

Hey dad!, What’s that over there.

Grandma Gordon (aka GG) with Sofia

Sofia needed a little help opening her presents this year

I’ve had enough folks!  Its past my bedtime!!!

Sofia requested some close up shots so we felt obligated to oblige her.  See below.

Mom returns to work next Monday.  Dad will be taking two weeks off to be with Sofia until the end of the year.  Grandma Dettmann will then take care of Sofia for the first week of the new year.  After that she will be in day care which is just a couple blocks from both Angie and I at work.  We have mixed feeling about her being in daycare.  The good things are exposure to new things and a structured schedule.  It is also nice that Angie and I can drop in whenever we get a break from work to go spend time with her.  Bad things are the unknowns about daycare, not being able to attend to her every time she cries, and the parental guilt associated with not being near her for every minute of every day.  We both know it is going to be very hard to leave her the first day we have to drop her off.

Riding in the car and surprised by the camera!

Sleeping on Dad’s lap

Check out my profile!  I’m so cute.

We had an “artic blast” according to the freaked out Dallas news media last week.  Everyone panics around here when it gets below freezing.  I don’t see the big deal but I did get to stay home from work one day because it sleeted and people thought the streets were too slick.  Angie and I took Sofia outside bundled in her cute jacket to get some pictures in the brief couple hours it was actually snowing.  It was actually in the mid 20s one night.  We managed to survive.
For those of you who are into baby “stats”.  At her 9 week appointment, Sofia weighed 13 lbs and is 24.3 inches long.  This is in the 95th percentile for both height and weight.  I guess we’ll see what happens but our bet is that she’ll be taller than mommy.

This one was taken after surviving the cold