Through my friend Natalie, I found an amazing photographer. She came to our house today and took some beautiful pictures of Sam. She was so patient and great at setting up shots. I highly recommend her (kcrawfordphotography.com). The only problem is that her husband is in the foreign service, so at the end of January, they will be moving to East Timor. When they get back in two years, I can guarantee I will be booking another shoot!

The cutest baby in the world

Sleeping like, well, a baby

I knit that blanket for Sam.

Can you tell he is about to cry?

Baby in a basket!

My little smiley guy.

Sweet hat.

Today there was a record-breaking snow storm in DC.

We didn’t leave the house, except to take Henry outside.

And of course to take pictures of Sam’s first snow.

All bundled up.

What a cute pair.

I wanted to get a Christmas tree, but we just kept not making it to Meadows Farm. Yesterday, we finally decided to go. Ben came straight from work and greeted me with hot chocolate from Starbucks. Sadly, there were almost no trees left. Since we were leaving next week to go to Texas for a week, we decided to just skip the whole tree thing. But hey, at least we got a picture with Sam in a cute holiday outfit and and a tree in the background.

This is what we ended up with at our house. Not bad, right?

Next year, I think we will go with an artificial tree. We can put that up the day after Thanksgiving!

Sam and I drove downtown to meet Grandpa Pat for lunch today. We got stuck in traffic. So much traffic, in fact, I was able to get out the car and take a picture.

Pretty soon, we heard sirens. President Obama and his motorcade came rolling by.

There they go!

Wave to the preseident, Sam!

Sometimes it’s cool to live in DC.

Sam celebrated his first Hanukkah. We even made latkes, but sadly there is no photographic evidence.

Daddy helped Sam unwrap his present. Thank you Grandma Trish and Grandpa Chuck for the adorable outfit (complete with sweater vest).