King of His Castle

Nana and GP got a playset for Josiah at their house. Here are the men putting it together, one of the happy traditions of Christmas.

Josiah giving some instructions
Enjoying the fruits of his labor with GP

Landing

Applauding himself on a great landing

Ahoy matey!

A Walk With Aunt Rachel

Thanksgiving, Part 3

For the actual day of Thanksgiving, we went to Mom and Dad's house in Atlanta. Parker and Rachel were in town from Boston - praise God! We hadn't seen them since Easter, so we had a much needed visit.

After the delicious feast. Doesn't the high chair go with the dining room furniture?

Getting some Nana lovin'



We stayed for the weekend. Friday the boys went hunting, and the gals went hunting for sales. This is the first year I've gone out on Black Friday, and I was a bit disappointed in the sales.

Saturday we picked out a Christmas tree and decorated later that night.

"Hi"

High-five for Uncle Parker

Josiah really liked the "ba's"

He kept pulling the tops off each one and saying "Uh-oh" each time and showing us the problem.

Opening a few Christmas presents early

The finished product

Decorating the tree was always a big family tradition for us growing up, so it was sweet to get to have everyone together to do it this year. We have an order to the tree (lights, bows, candy canes, balls, ornaments). Then we all gather around the tree afterward. We read the Christmas story from Luke 2, have a prayer, put up the nativity, and then listen to Willie Nelson sing "Silent Night" and "Little Town of Bethlehem." The last part seems obscure, but it really does make it feel like Christmas to me.

Thanksgiving, Part 2

We went over to Montgomery for the day to visit the Moseley great-grandparents.

"Ba! Ba!"

"Ba! Ba!"

Aunt Joyce gave him a great toy piggy bank that he can open and close on his own and counts for him.

Granddaddy Moseley has a peg board of about 100 hats on his wall. Josiah went over and picked up the ones on his level. He brought them one by one to Great-Granddaddy, made him put them on and then went back for more.

I made him pose with this one for his Aunt Rachel.

Josiah kept calling Anna "Nana" too, but it does sound different than what he calls Nana.

Thanksgiving, Part 1

The Moseleys were down the weekend before Thanksgiving (I'm a little behind; have you noticed?). We celebrated both Thanksgiving and Christmas with the Olive branch of the family. We did Thanksgiving on Sunday and exchanged Christmas gifts on Monday night.

Checking out Mama Jo's Christmas tree

"Ba! Ba!"

"Ba! Ba!"

No matter how old they are, they'll always have to wrestle.

Sweet girl with her Dad

Josiah came over to my newly opened jewelry box and felt the fluffy stuff at the bottom. He made a funny fish face and brought it to Mama Jo. She put it to her face to show it was soft.

So he brought it to Anna to rub on her face.

The paparazzi

The cool boys

The patriarch and matriarch

If you've ever been to our house at Christmas, you've seen the gorgeous, intricate stockings that Mrs. Sharon cross-stitched for us. She started Josiah's in June, and it's beautiful. And it has "arf-arfs" on it.

Seriously amazing, isn't it?