wrapping and unwrapping

chad opening one of his gifts- a leaf blower for doing yard work at his house!

mema and papa unwrapping a new specialty coffee maker- which they immediately fell in love with!

goofy game

our little tomato!  the best part, which you can see in the background, was that even after he guessed his card, papa kept wearing his headband!

sure we looked silly, thats part of the fun!

chad must have felt that he was too cool to play, but it was great that miyuki was willing to join us in the silliness!

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miyuki, chad, papa, ledger, and ivy just chillin out!

big smiles from ledger and mema!

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just look at that second chin!  ha!

even though its a little bit colder, on one of the nicer days ledger and i still got a chance for one of our special father and son walks!

our little guy playing amidst the fake food, taking a minute to wave to the camera!

turtle power!

diana's friend julie gave ledger this cute counting lion for christmas- as you can tell he loves it!

ledger's first christmas gift

he doesnt know whats happening, but he loves every minute of it!

now what is this, little one?

after taking a minute staring at it trying to figure out what this strange looking thing is, he started to touch it and push the little wooden beads and blocks around on the spinny wires- he instantly loved it!

he kept checking it out and playing with it for the next hour!  thank you so much, tim and jill!

mema's toys

this little guy was about as content as could be!

mema getting ledger nice and clean for the big party!

christmas church

i think ledger really liked the fact that both mama and dada were sitting in the back with him instead of up front!

the brink family dressed in our sunday best!

papa's nose

here he is, innocently playing around with a cup at the table...

then he goes in for the kill!  as you can see, papa wasnt quite sure how to react!

thus began a five minute long laughing fit by everyone there!

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cant argue with that, huh?

'hi dada, dont mind me, i'm just going to lay here on your foot...'

while mom and dad eat, little ledger does a bit of light reading...

'just read the shirt, man...'

dont try to eat the camera, buddy!

sal found a new friend!

out little guy just playing by himself...

eat up!

just like his dad, ledger loves him some corn!

he gets such a kick out of this fake food!

for some reason he loves putting the salt and pepper shakers in his mouth while he plays with the other foods...

he's about as happy as can be- a new favorite box of toys!

pterodactyl

he didnt seem so sure about it at first...

but this is pretty accurate for our little squawker!

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another great shot by aves!

ledger's cousin tweets was so proud of him!

after the service mema and papa were so happy for our little boy!

the proud parents of a newly baptized son!

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ledger behaved himself perfectly during the baptism, but got a bit restless during the sermon...  so jill and the girls went out with him into the lobby for a bit.

she took a ton of pictures of him- so cute!

the many faces of ledger!

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ledger, all dressed up in his sunday best!  mema and papa got him this outfit for his special day!  i love the cute sweater vest!

the proud parents! (its a little blurry because aves wanted to take a picture...)

the proud grandparents so excited about their grandson being baptized!

mema wanted to make sure that ledger was fully aware of what was going to happen, so she shared the order of events with him!