This was Jeremiah's first Christmas and what a busy month of December it was! He celebrated no less than 4 Christmas parties and a Hanukkah party on top of that. That was all before we even left for California on Christmas Eve!
The first party was a children's Christmas Party where I work at ISI.
Cassie dressed him up as mini-Santa and she went as a reindeer.

This was Jeremiah's first time to see a "real Santa". As you can tell, he didn't much care for the big man.

However, Santa did have a present for him, which he was very excited about. That was without even knowing he could open it.

Inside was his very first walker. He thought it was great and so did all of the other kids that were under 2 years old. Pretty soon they were all taking turns stealing it from one another. Continuing the costume theme from earlier, you can sort of tell that I dressed up with my Grinch shirt.

Jeremiah's cousins also came. He actually gets along with them really well, photo evidence to the contrary.

Shiny!

On to party number two! This was more of an "adult" one as we continued our 2nd annual Crab Legs for Christmas party with some friends. This year we added cheese fondue to the mix which was considered a must-have for next year. Jeremiah was quite comfy hanging with one of his "girlfriends".

The third party was with my family. Originally we had planned to go to the North Pole, an amusement park for little children which is at the base of Pike's Peak. Because of zero degree weather, we instead went to ITz which is kind of like a Chuck E. Cheese... on crack.

Jeremiah preferred to look at the rides over actually riding them.

His fourth Christmas was just with mommy, daddy, and him. His stocking was full and nearly as big as him!

He also got his very own fire truck that he can push around for now, but should be able to ride as well in a few months. It makes lovely fire engine noises and sings a song. Would someone remind me next year to ban toys that make noise? :-)

The final party was a Hanukkah one with more friends. We ate homemade latkas (fried potato pancakes) which were really good. Jeremiah especially liked the sweet potato ones. He also wore "dreidel" ears. I don't know if that's considered orthodox.

So that's it for this post! I'm still working on putting together the California posts. There's a lot of pictures and stories to share! Check back soon.