Whoa! I love to travel. I flew in my first airplane, loved it. My daddy is from Pittsburgh, so we went there for Christmas. We spent ten days there. It was so much fun. I met so many wonderful people and did lots of fun stuff. Mommy and daddy went and surprised Uncle Chris at work and then they went to the Andy Warhol museum. They talked about their experience for a long time because they both loved some crazy artist guy that made giants. While mommy and daddy were away, grandma and I had so much fun. We sang, and I worked real hard on crawling. Grandma is so patient. When mommy and daddy came home they played their Wii. That was mommy's early Christmas present from daddy. They love the Wii.




Grandma had a big dinner at her house on Christmas Eve. There were 17 people there. It was exciting! Daddy fed me his mashed potatoes that Aunt Cathy made. They were delicious. And when no one was looking, I tried a little of this and a little of that. That was my first time eating adult food. I was surprised when mommy let daddy feed me food other then the kind that comes in the plastic containers. She usually tells everyone, "No" when they ask if I can have something, but she let daddy feed me whatever he wanted to feed me. I think I ate some stuffing, too. Later Santa came. I liked his candy Canes.

Pappy got a digital camera Christmas morning! He took most of the pictures from then on out. Mommy doesn't have very many pictures of me on Christmas morning. But pappy does, over 50! My first Christmas was a success. It was fun and I got so many nice presents. I got my very own basketball hoop. It happens to be in the shape of a tiger. I am working on shooting hoops. I've scored a couple of points. Yeah, I'm a pro. I hung out with Pappy's sister and her family the day after Christmas. Again daddy has the nicest family. Everyone is wonderful and so nice. I met my cousin and her daughters. They are 2 years old and 5 months old.

Daddy and Uncle Chris fried a turkey for Christmas Dinner. It was tasty!

Later in the week a bunch of us went to Carnegie History Museum. We saw these giant lizards...huge...as big as a house. I hope I never run into one of those in real life. For some reason they were very still. Maybe they were hoping we would not notice them. Mommy and I looked at some quilts there too. Mommy said that she was going to finish her quilts one of these days. Mommy and daddy went to Clarion University. That is were daddy went to college. They ate at a cafe there. Daddy told mommy all kinds of stories. Daddy said he had to protect me from guys like him and his friends.

Daddy is so silly; I think he is a great guy. And I like daddy's friends too. Daddy's friend Scott had a get together. It was very nice. Daddy got to catch up and hang out. Mommy forgot her camera, but she does have a picture with all of daddy's friends in it. Daddy always tells mommy stories about daddy's friends. Mommy says I have to wear earmuffs when he tells those stories and I am in the room. I don't know why. It is not cold.

It was sadly; finally time to go and we packed up the car and drove home. It only took 11 hours. I slept through most of that. So did Igloo and Q ball.