Oh Baby: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas (6 Months)

Dear Jericho,
It is December, you have grown big and strong for 6 months now. At your doctor's appointment on the 8th we got your current stats :

15 pounds 10 ounces
27 inches long

When you were born you were 7 pounds 14.9 ounces and 21 inches long. This means you have doubled your birth weight and grown 6 inches! In addition to that, you have learned a lot (as you have seen in my other posts)

December is the start of Christmas season. Well, commercially the stores try to shove it down your throat even before Thanksgiving, but not at this house. :) We splurged this year and invested in a fake Christmas tree. As much as that hurts me to have a fake tree, it is the safest thing for you. I didn't want to worry about you eating Christmas tree needles or getting into mischief under the tree and knocking it over and spilling water everywhere.

When we got the Christmas tree up I took pictures of you with your Sissy Alexis and Daddy. We also put you in a Sherpa bear outfit that I got you from Carters (please don't hate me for this you look adorable in it) and took about 50 pictures that day.

We also introduced you to Buddy. He is our designated Elf who will be here every Christmas season to keep an eye on you and report back to Santa Claus. I was surprised that Santa sent him this year because you are too young to know if you are naughty or nice but I hope he will give us some elf magic and help with your baby temper tantrums! The elf will be around, let's just hope he doesn't get into trouble!

I am really looking forward to Christmas this year. We don't have a lot of money to buy you dozens of gifts but Grandma and Grandpa Dude have spoiled you rotten. I've even given you a head start at opening your presents and I let you play with one each day. You just chew on them and you are not any closer to opening them.

You really like the tree and all of the lights. I purposely only decorated the top portion of the tree and didn't put many ornaments on it this year. That way you can play with the branches and not get into too much trouble. Don't Eat The Lights!!