BIG WEEK & WEEKEND - NEW COUSIN & A TREE & A HAIR CUT!!!!!!

Wednesday we welcomed a new member to the family! Jon & Lauren gave birth to Maxwell Conner MacDonald!! We now have a cousin "Baby Max"!! Congrats to the Ontario relatives!! Amanda and I are now Aunti & Uncle (Bur - "Bad Uncle Ryan"), and Carter is a cousin! What a way to start the week!!!

On the weekend we put up our first "real" Christmas tree in our house. Last year we used an artifical one, but this year we thought we'd give it a try and see how Carter reacted to it. I went out Saturday night and got the tree, and we waiting until Carter was down for a nap on Sunday to put it up. To our surprise, when Carter woke up from his nap, he didn't really pay much attention to the tree....he was more interested in the vaccum we were using to clean up the pine needles!

On Sunday morning we took Carter out to get his unofficial "first" haircut. I say unofficial because Amanda and her Mom tried before and didn't get very far once. Amanda has also trimmed his hair a few times, but this was the first time we actually got a real haircut. He's now all trimmed and ready for Christmas!

A few new additions to the word list:

• "I don't know"
• Blue Ball for Blue Berry
• All gone and he holds his hands out
• Trying to say Dora and Diego...we know what they are but they're not quite there yet....
• Burp
• Word of the day is Shoe....