Wow, has it really been since mid-November since we last posted? Sorry about that - is anyone still out there? New Year's resolution - post more about G Money - we'll see if this lasts more than two weeks.
Well, a lot has happened since November 19. First, we'll jump back to Thanksgiving when we made a trip back to Madison to see the Fam(s). Chris, Meg, Adie and Brynn made it down to Madison too, and we got a picture of all the kids on Grandma Toni's new rock wall.
After a visit to Madison, we went to Dodgeville to visit Great Grandma T. It was her 80th birthday in November.
When we got home from our Thanksgiving travel, we stuck to our close family traditions of doing Christmas shopping and putting up the tree on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Sims could hardly wait for Christmas to come.
Savage holds an annual "Winterfest" that we took Graeme to this year. One of the local daycares had a craft station where Graeme was able to make his own snowman.
Graeme got to go to his first "grown-up" Christmas party at our friends' the Schellhammers. He was excited to dress up for the occasion and play with some new little friends.
Just before Christmas, we surprised Graeme (as much as can really be done when he has no clue what is going on) with a trip to his first Gopher basketball game. He has now been to a Gopher basketball and football game in his first 15 months. We need to make sure there is an appropriate balance of maroon and gold, to cardinal and white, or black and yellow in this family.
We got to see an exciting victory against North Dakota State. Graeme was mostly impressed by the people and bright lights in the ceiling. He did pretty good for the game starting at what is normally bed time.
Graeme woke up on Christmas Eve morning to find that Santa had left him a large present in his play room (i.e. the office).
What could it be...what could it be?
His very own table and chairs. I know it doesn't seem all that exciting, but he already has a ton of toys, and he is really into sitting, or as he requests "ditting" these days. The trouble now is getting him to actually dit in his chairs and not stand on them.
After the excitement of the morning, we headed back to Madison to visit the Fam(s) again. We spent Christmas Eve at Ryan and Tommi's house. Here is Graeme and Brayden relaxing on the couch after the night's excitement.
We spent Christmas Day with the Tredinnick side of the family. Chris, Meg and the girls made it down again for Christmas as well and we all had the chance to watch the Packer's clinch home field through the NFC playoffs - Go Pack!
Before we headed back to the cities, the Woode family got together again for some Rocky's pizza. This table looks like trouble waiting to happen.
They aren't as innocent as they look. After pizza we swung by Grandma Toni's to say happy birthday to Brynn (we also missed a shout out to miss Adrienne on her birthday - happy birthday Adie!).
Remember how excited Sims was for Christmas? Man was he pooped afterwards.
But he did recover enough to finally pit Graeme in a rematch of tug-o-war.
AND NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT!!!!!
As you can see from the picture below, our sweet little baby had a little bit of what we like to call a mullet. Want further proof - is that Clay Matthews? Is that a precious little girl (yes, he has been called that)? Nope, it's just Graemebo.
We were a little nervous, because we didn't want to lose our little baby through chopping his locks, but I think the final product highlighted his chubby little cheeks and kept our baby in tact.
Hard to believe its been almost 16 months already. For those interested - please note that to be fair we did put Graeme in a Badger shirt for the Rose Bowl. I think he went to bed when the Badgers were up, and if you don't give us any crap about our Gophers, he doesn't have to know that Bucky lost...just sayin'.
Happy New Year!
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