Titus and Joshua

Best Friends

While we were in town, we took a trip to Tuscaloosa to visit the Smith Family. Audrey and Wade are doing great and anxiously awaiting Baby Girl Smith who should make an appearance within the next couple weeks. Titus, who turned 2 in October is such a big boy and fast. He was very sweet to share his toys with Joshua. It was cute to see them play together. Joshua had a great time following him both on foot and by truck. They both warmed up to eachother and chatted and hugged each other. I think they will grow up to be good friends just like their parents. Here are some pictures from the fun night. As a side note, I don't know why Joshua was so fascinated with the sunglasses. He has some at home and won't wear them, even on bright summer days. Dog Pile! Merry Christmas from Titus!

Christmas morning and the next day

Joshua had a wonderful Christmas. He was so much fun this year! He opened presents, played with wrapping paper, played with boxes, and managed to find time to play with actual toys! Santa was very good to our sweet little boy. Joshua got to visit with all his relatives on both sides of the family. During the trip home we ended up going to Birmingham, Oneonta, Huntsville, and Tuscaloosa. We took our beagles (Hardy and Ridley) with us, at least to Birmingham. They had a good time exploring Grandma and Grandpa's backyard. Enjoy the Chrsitmas pictures I've posted below.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Love,
The Chathams

The Christmas Tree

Joshua is such a helpful boy! Our Christmas tree has a foot pedal to turn the lights on and off. Luckily he has not discovered this pedal. Instead when it is time to turn the tree on we say "One, two, three..." and then we clap three times. Magically the tree comes on. Joshua has such a look of wonder when this happens. Now when we say "Come help us turn the tree on," he runs at it clapping. The other night it was bedtime so I turned the tree off and Joshua was stalling on going to sleep. After unsuccessfully rocking him for a few minutes I set him down and he ran to the tree clapping and crying. So I turned the tree back on, scooped him up and he went to sleep looking at the tree.

Obligatory Santa Photo

We took Joshua to see Santa on Friday night. There was quite a wait, though we were at Chick-Fil-A and got to sit down until our number was called. We carried Joshua around and let him look at Santa and talked about Santa and it was all good... until we put him in Santa's lap. Then it was absolute terror! Joshua screamed his head off so Matt picked our button up and we gave Santa puffed stars (Joshua's favorite) to give to Joshua, but the closer Matt got to Santa, the tighter the death grip. Oh well. It's still a cute picture.

On another note, our photographer used Joshua's Santa photo from last year in his advertisement for this year's pictures. Joshua is a star!

Thanksgiving 2009

We had a great Thanksgiving this year full of family, food, and football. We enjoyed seeing everyone, though our little Joshua was a sicky. We had Thanksgiving lunch at Grandma Goforth's with all of Mommy's extended family and dinner at Dana's with all Daddy's extended family. Then we had an Iron Bowl party at Dana's on Friday and a family dinner at Aunts Celeste and Elaine's house on Saturday. In between be went to Huntsville to visit with Grandottie and Jerry Pop. All the while Joshua wasn't feeling well. By midnight on Thanksgiving Joshua was screaming and miserable. On Friday we took him to a clinic and he had ear infections in both ears and pink eye in both eyes. We were there about 2 1/2 hours and missed most of the first half of the Iron Bowl which turned out to be a good thing. Joshua slept for most of the game except for the last minute and a half. What an exciting finish - Roll Tide!
**Check back later for a slide show of our Thanksgiving trip. **

Science Jammies

Night, night! I love my NASA pajamas!

Happy Birthday Mommy!

We had a great weekend! Grandma and Grandpa came for a visit for Mommy's birthday. As an added bonus, Daddy took Mommy out on a date for dinner and a movie. We went to see New Moon, which Mommy has super excited to see and then we had dinner at Bonefish Grill. It was a wonderful night out. I have to give major props to Matt for getting the sold out movie tickets ahead of time and being a good sport about the movie. I think the funniest thing he said after the movie was "Wow. I haven't seen acting this fine since Hayden Christensen in Star Wars." It was a sad, but true statement.

Joshua had a great time hanging out with Grandma and Grandpa as did Mommy and Daddy. They brought him all kinds of goodies and cute clothes (see picture below). Thanks for everything!!

Finger Paint/ Link to Pictures

I'm glad this paint doesn't have lead in it!

Also we recently went to have our family Christmas pictures taken. Check out the link on the right hand side of the blog or click on this blog title to check them out.

Lastly, Joshua recently had his 15 month appointment. He is still a light weight so we are going to work on eating more. This is a challenge because he is a picky eater. He generally eats yogurt, bananas, cheese, and Gerber snacks fairly consistently, but all else is hit and miss. The biggest surprise has that he had ear infections in both ears, though he hasn't been puny or pulling on his ears. Hopefully the medicine will knock it out and he'll feel better.

Roll Tide

My aunts bought me this awesome Alabama outfit. It has an elephant and everything! Thanks Aunts Celeste and Elaine! And for all those keeping score I would like to say that with Alabama's win over LSU yesterday, "I ain't never been nothin' but a winner... in regular season." Roll Tide! Joshua has mastered a new trick. He is a pro at climbing over the ottoman (one of the barriers we used to separate the play area from the rest of the house. I left Joshua in the den and went into the kitchen to feed the dogs. I turned around for one second and then he was right by my side looking so proud of himself.