Real Men Wear Pink

This week Gabe is 8 weeks old!  He (aka I) decided he should wear pink for this picture (ok, mostly because some of the onesies I had made over the summer were faintly "girl," and rather than toss them or give them away, I figured he could wear them anyway).  Craig comments "real men wear pink" sometimes, so I figured that was fitting for the blog post title!  (Consequently, he then commented we had such a "pretty little girl" when he saw his son dressed like this, haha!)

• For Christmas, amongst other things, we got Gabriel a pair of foot/wrist rattles, and I caught him on video kicking away!  Click here to see the short video of our future soccer player and/or dancer!

 

• We spent Christmas Eve with the Kozaczka family at Teresa's house.  It was lovely as usual (I think this is year 3 for us?).  Teresa makes wonderful traditional Polish food (including beet borscht with mushroom dumplings, kapusta, pierogi, and fish), and I always enjoy it!  It's so interesting to me how every Polish woman I know makes kapusta differently - my mom, my 2 Polish aunts, and Teresa all make different versions, and they ALL are delicious!  A few pictures to follow, as I'm waiting for them to get e-mailed to me.  Gabe was great - slept most of the time when he wasn't eating but was happy when 2 other ladies were holding him, and he only had eyes for Andre's cousin Mike!  He gave out a few coveted giggles and smiles for the crowd.
• The Kozaczkas gave us a beautiful picture frame with a picture of us from the baptism and a gorgeous ornament with one of Gabriel's newborn pictures in it.  His Godparents also gave him an awesome Fisher Price nativity set (never seen one like it - so cool!) and a giraffe rocker (obviously for when he's a little older).  (These pictures were taken on Christmas Day.)

 

• Uncle Gregory, Auntie Christina, and cousins Noah & Addison sent some presents for Gabriel.  We caught a few pictures of some (additionally, they sent a beautiful board book of prayers which included a Christmas prayer that we read before bedtime that night).

• On Christmas Day, we stayed home as our new family of 3!  It was a nice quiet day.  I made eggs with ham & cheese for brunch, we watched some Christmas movies, and Craig made a delicious pot roast for dinner.  After brunch, Craig "helped" Gabriel open his presents while I took lots of pictures with our new camera (a fancy one - not our phone cameras, though those take pretty awesome pictures too).

His bum says "Santa's little helper," sticker courtesy of Grammy

Onesie courtesy of Auntie Kristen

"Yay!  It's Christmas!  Happy Birthday Jesus!"  Thank you to Nonno for the Santa suit & Carolyn from the Commission for Women for the doggy toy.

"I was a very good boy this year (aka 8 weeks!)"

Daddy, "helping" Gabe open his presents

Picture frame with birth stats all around it (hard to see in this picture)

Musical crawling ball

Hungry caterpillar crinkle book

Alphabet, number, and animal wooden puzzles

See & Say Book - has big images & words for baby to learn

Sit-to-stand learning walker

Gabe's first tools, just like Daddy's!

Here are some other pictures from the week: 

 



I love baby feet!






What a cute hiney!






Baby mohawk!






Beautiful hat made by Ciocia Teresa






His onesie says it all!






My favorite close-up from the week






"Whoa!  I get presents?!"