Baby's First Christmas

Here is my long overdue update on Aeson's homecoming.  Sorry for the delay.  He came home right as the holidays hit and everything just sort of...exploded.  They got home on Thursday, just in time for Christmas.  (Thank goodness.  I'll be honest, I was starting to panic a little.)  The homecoming itself was a little anticlimactic.  Brent had free parking at the airport so we weren't there to see them walk off the plane.  They came home late in the evening after a bajillion hour flight so everyone was exhausted.  Aeson eyed everyone warily, ate dinner and went to bed.  I took some video but it's pretty boring.  And the cinematography is crap.  Very Blair Witch Project.

Aeson woke up Friday am and really hasn't looked back.  The only major problem we've encountered are the dogs.  While he likes the IDEA of them, up close and personal they scare the schnikes out of him.  In his defense, we had ten dogs at our house over the weekend.  Only three are mine.  He is warming up quickly though and he's made massive improvements in a very short period of time.  Today he was even walking the littlest one down the driveway on a leash.  He does tend to obsess over them, though, if he can see or hear them (can't even just put them outside because he can see them through the glass of the doors) and can't focus on anything else.  So my dogs have spent a lot of time in the garage.  They've been very good sports about it, probably because they've gotten double their usual amount of rawhides and walks to make up for the inconvenience.

Overall Aeson acts like he has always lived here.  He fits in seamlessly and gets along great with the girls.  He LOVES my uncle and was really disappointed when he left today even though he's only known the man for about 24 hours.  He eats everything we put in front of him.  He sleeps through the night.  And while I have zero expectations that it will continue to go this smoothly, I hope and pray that it does.

I'll leave you with a few snapshots of our weekend.  We had a great first Christmas as the seven of us and hope your Christmas was wonderful, as well.

That's right.  We were wearing shorts and playing in the water hose on Christmas.
It's currently like 75 degrees here in Texas.  

Making Christmas cookies.  

Reading a bedtime story.
  

Home.  =)