Christmas at the Trevino's

In all of the craziness of the holidays, the blog has been neglected and for that I apologize. So, here's a run down of Christmas at our house.

Here's Jonathan fully engaged in getting used to things in the outside world. He managed to find his fingers and his thumb right away. Accuracy aside, he's pretty good at eventually getting some part of his hand in his mouth.

We decided to introduce Matt to Santa this year and he has fully grasped the concept as much as he can at this age. He waves to any Santa decoration he sees in the neighborhood. He has enjoyed reading "Twas the Night Before Christmas" at bedtime each night and now says "Merry Christmas" when we pass any Santa n the neighborhood. So, we decided to go for broke and try cookie decorating so we could leave Santa a treat on Christmas Eve. Here he is getting started.

I was so proud of him. He actually put a few gum drops on the cookies after I put on the icing.

Here he is trying to be sneaky about eating all the gumdrops he could before I could grab his hand and aim it at the cookie! It's a great guilty look, isn't it?

Here are the 4 cookies we managed to complete. I had to stop there since Matt wouldn't stop reaching for candies! Notice the missing piece from the left foot of the front cookie. He just couldn't resist trying one out before lunch.

Here's how Jonathan helped out with the cookie decorating!

We went out for our first family car ride to look at lights on Christmas night. Jonathan tolerated the car ride a lot better than he did the photo shoot.

We left one of the cookies out with some milk and when Matt saw the plate on Christmas morning he was so excited that Santa ate his cookie he had made him. It was adorable and we can't wait until next year!

This expression pretty much captured Matt on Christmas. He was so excited about all of the new toys. We had to do gifts in about 4 separate shifts in order to keep his interest on opening up more boxes.

Jonathan hung in there during the whole thing. What a sleeping champ! There was so much noise going on I can't believe he made it through.

One of Matt's favorite toys of the day was his new baseball game from our friends Donny & Julie. They spoil him rotten and he in turn entertains them fully! As long as we didn't expect Matt to operate the toy the way it was meant to work, he loved it. Just don't turn the sound effects on and don't you dare push the home plate and make the arm move by itself! He'll get there, but for now he's happy to make things happen on his own and use his own sound effects. We'll take it outside when the weather warms up (likely next week).

Batting lessons from Daddy!

The boys meet!

Matt came up to the hospital last night to meet his baby brother. At first he was a bit timid and just curled into my arms, then he let loose with his personality and once we put Jonathan down, he ran around the room throwing the aspirator like a ball and amusing us all. We got a few momentary pics of the boys together for their first encounter. I think they'll do great together!

I just love Matt's look in this picture. He's not quite sure what to think of the whole situation.

Here's Matt trying on his "hat" while I try to eat my dinner they brought me. He was quite a character in the room.

Here's Jonathan trying to compete with his photogenic big brother.

Matt was a bit leery of being right next to the baby, but tolerated it briefly for a few pics. My dad was able to be there for the big event, but just because Mommy wasn't the one holding the baby didn't make it any easier at first.

Welcome Jonathan Andrew!

We welcomed Jonathan Andrew Trevino into the world this morning at 11:08 am. Labor was much shorter, but more intense than with Matt, but we are all doing well and recovering from the eventful morning!

Here we are "rocking out the baby" trying to get things moving a bit faster with the labor.

He's not quite as loud as his big brother, but he made himself heard early on.

Matt hung out at home with Grandma for the big event. He'll be coming to meet his little brother after his nap this afternoon. That should prove interesting!

Jonathan came into this world at 19 1/2 inches and 8 pounds 6 ounces. He's resting well, and feeding great already.

A Morning at the Zoo

The boys were troopers this morning, waking up early and heading out for the zoo! We didn't tell Matt where we were going until we got in the parking lot. We had tried to go a couple of times recently and it hadn't worked out for one reason or another. Matt was surprised and excited when he found out where we were. It was a bit chilly to start, and many of the animals were still not out eating breakfast yet, but we got to see a lot in our short time there.

Here Matt and his daddy look out at the gibbons, swinging on the ropes and warming up their voices.

Matt was too eager to look at the giraffes and not at the camera. He tells us all about what he sees.

This is my favorite picture from this morning. There's no telling what was being said, but I couldn't pass this picture up.

Matt reluctantly left the playground and went into the petting zoo to visit all the baby goats. Many of them were snuggled up sleeping, but he managed to find a few and try to yank at their ears. They must love toddlers!

He had a good adventure at the zoo and took a bit of a catnap on the way home.