A Very Savannah Christmas

We went down to Savannah to spend Christmas with the Wade's, and their new addition, Etta Jane. It was a different kind of Christmas spent in shorts and t-shirts, not exactly a "white christmas", unless we had gone to the beach which we easily could have. But it was nice to break out the flip-flops from their winter hibernation. We took part in the savannah tradition of an Oyster Bake, and tried to make it to a Christmas eve service at an old church in town. Although our stay at the service was brief (we made it through 1 of the 3 pages in the pamplet, and missed out on the entire congregation taking communion), we made our presence known (B was marching in the balcony and the preacher asked if anyone else heard the reindeer on the roof). I got my first experience watch little etta jane solo, mano-y-babyo. I was guranteed a nice 2 hour nap, Guranteed. Well, not so much. About 5 minutes after everyone left, Etta decided to wake up from her little slumber. No big deal, I'll just walk her around for a few minutes. We bonded and checked out the christmas tree and looked out the window. Then the thunder came. Unfortunately this is not the type of thunder that accompanies the rain (or so I thought). Now I'm not scared to change diapers at all, but I've never actually changed a girl's diaper, and Etta is about a pound lighter than B ever was, so I was in unchartered territory with this change. So I got etta all cleaned and was reaching over to grab a new diaper for her when the rain that accompanies that thunder arrived. So i just went from a simple diaper change to a full on outfit change. Luckily about half way through the change mommy arrived back home to save the day. I am definitely out of practice with the little ones. Anyway, enough with the stories, lets see some pics...

Here is B, ready for Christmas Eve service, complete with traditional Bamboo Stick...

And another...

By the tanenbaum...


H & M preparing the reindeer food, looks pretty tasty...


B putting on his best fake smile to pose with the milk and cookies (I was not supposed to be in this picture, not sure how that was supposed to worked out, and it didn't obviously)...


The traditional opening of one gift on christmas eve...


a sweet new, environmentally friendly wooden truck...


Check out the wings on that princess/fairy...


And Here's B checking out the horse from nana...


After Presents it was off to forsyth park...


For a little Sliding, with a push from Mommy...


And he's on his way...


wooooah, too close...


And perhaps a nice little Jog to work off all those calories...


Perhaps he's been hanging out with Jack too much, here he is stalking a pigeon, unfortunately, we forgot our toppins...


Nice summe....winter stroll with mommy...


And What visit to savannah is complete without some spanish moss, I'd say it was perfect moss watching weather...


Here's the traditional oyster roast (no I don't eat oysters either, nothing with a heart beat, and nothing that resembles snot, these are rough guidelines, not firm)...


And Finally the festivus feats of strenght between niko and B...