Christmas Pictures

What a night...lol. We had our yearly Christmas pictures of the grandkids, these would be all of my mom's grandkids. I have one brother, R, who has 3 daughters and 2 stepsons and my sis, A, who has J and then there is T, so a total of 7 grandkids ranging in age from 18 years old to 16 months old, and yep, my brother has both the 18 year old and the one year old. We went to Olan Mills and honestly, they were FANTASTIC. I worried at first, seeing my nephews A and TL who seemed to be in really bad moods when they got there, I thought great, its gonna be one of those nights with them. The kids were really good though and I would guess that helps with getting pics done quick. There were not a lot of retakes, and no crying. There were a couple of really good shots of T, shots that made the people there ask if he was in modeling...ha, no, not my laid back and very easy going child. My sis couldn't be there but I made sure mom ordered plenty of extras for her. T had his 5 year shot done too, he turns 5 at the end of the month, that pic is awesome, I hope I can scan and load it when we get it back. I can't believe that kid is gonna be 5, whoa, where did the time go.

So, we were there and my SO and I were in the room with the lady showing the pics, she knows I am his mom and T has called F his dad and she assumes we are married. Her comment to us is, WOW, T is really tall for his age, but I guess he gets that from his dad. HUH? Now F is 6'7 so yeah he is tall, but LOL.....one, T is not really tall for his age and two, T doesn't look like either one of us. We got a chuckle out of it and no, we didn't correct her, we joke all the time that T's personality traits are from one or the other of us.

This holiday is a little stressful for us, not as much saved and all that, plus we are moving right after the new year, the move will be great for us, it is into a house, which is bigger than the apartment we are in now and it also has a big yard and pool in the backyard so we are pretty excited about the move. T hasn't asked for anything for Christmas, so far it isn't really in his nature. He has never thrown a fit in a store if he is told he can't have something, he just says "okay mom". And we also never need to fear taking him somewhere because he will want something, he never asks us for anything. I always see people saying they don't want to "spoil" their kids or get them to much for x-mas because they will become "entitled", well, I can tell you, my son gets SPOILED by my family for x-mas and birthday and so far, there is absolutely no sense of entitlement. He would be happy with decorations, cake and lots of cousins to play with for his birthday. It has made getting him something for x-mas and his birthday (5 days after x-mas) hard, because I am guessing at what he wants but I have no doubt, my son will be happy.