Friends
and Family,
Merry
Christmas! We hope you are well.
This year has been an
exciting one for us. From January to June was a blur of worry about our jobs.
We weathered that with our jobs intact in the end, although Jesse’s job was
altered so that he works at 2 schools now instead of one.
Our miracle arrived on
June 30th, 2011 at 11:08 PM. Levi William Herrera was born! The
first few weeks were filled with diapers, feedings, sleeplessness and crying,
lots of crying. Then he was diagnosed with GERD, essentially baby version of
acid reflux. This was not surprising given my family history. Once the medicine
kicked in Levi became an incredibly happy baby!
Levi
has the cutest most expressive eyebrows! He is a social baby. Jesse and I went
back to work after 6 weeks, when school began. My mom takes care of Levi for us
during the week and Jesse’s mom does it some days when my mom takes quilting classes. Mom takes
Levi with her when she volunteers up at church. Levi is passed around among the
other ladies at church.
We went to the Dallas Arboretum
with a photographer friend to take pictures in October with all the pumpkin
displays. Levi did beautifully. He posed and smiled for the pictures. Then at
the end when we put him in the car seat he konked out for a few hours.
On October 2nd Jesse
and I celebrated our 7th anniversary and Levi was baptized. I prayed
long and hard that Levi would not cry for the baptism. He did great. He smiled
and jabbered at Pastor Gary. 
For Halloween Levi dressed up as
Tigger! That night he started to jabber in a way that sounded like a roar.
Levi is getting really good at
sitting unassisted. However he does not yet roll over, at least not on purpose.
He loves to eat all kinds of baby foods. I have yet to find one that he doesn’t
like. He drools like the Niarga Falls but no teeth yet. He plays in his
activity bouncer or sitting on the floor independantly for longer and longer
periods of time. He is learning to pretend his over-reach to face-plant was
done on purpose. He does a very nice push up and scoots backwards on his belly.
When his feet meet resistance he pushes up on hands and knees and rocks forward
and back, trying so hard to move forward!
Levi met Santa (aka Earl Amox) this year. He was not afraid of him. In fact to prove it, Levi pulled on Santa's beard! Santa handled it with grace, as you can see.
The picture shows Levi "baby Jesus" with "Gabriel" or rather "Gabriella". This year Levi was asked to be
the baby Jesus for our Christmas eve service at 3:00. I wonder how he will do; he
wiggles a lot.
We
hope you all have a blessed year!
Mary,
Jesse and Levi
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