Christmas Day

Christmas Day was spent at Gran's house and at Uncle Sherman's. Addi, Maddox, and Turner all had to rent trucks to get their presents home.

Addi and Turner.

Addi practicing her long jump skills.
At Sherman's, Turner got to see his Mamaw and Gladys Ann.

Maddox and Grandad.

Jenny and Turner.

Kristen and Sherri.

Addi enjoyed helping Mamaw open her presents.

Maddox just enjoyed showing his presents to Mamaw and Papaw.

Sherman and Gran with Addi.

Christmas Morning

We were all up bright and early on Christmas morning. More because Turner was hungry than for any anticipation of opening gifts.

Santa was good. And he liked the cookies that Turner left for him.

Turner's big gift from Santa was a Bumbo seat that he hasn't fully enjoyed so far.

Chloe's Christmas treat.

Daddy's Christmas treat.

Chloe enjoyed opening Mom and Dad's presents.

Christmas Eve

Turner was pretty torqued about Santa's eminent arrival on Christmas Eve.

Russian Invasion

On December 23, Turner greeted his two cousins from Russia, Addi and Maddox, and met his Aunt Jenny and Uncle Matt for the first time! The Russians are in the States through the end of January and will be touring the east coast during that time visiting friends and family.

Turner and family greeted the Depp family at the airport in Raleigh. Gran, Grandad, Mom, Dad, and Uncle Adam were all there. It was fun to see the kids instantly recognize their grandparents even though they are so young and don't get to see them very much. Watching Addi immediately run into her Gran's arms was really great.

We went from the airport to the Boone homestead for American style pizza (requested by the Depps) and brownies. Matt and Jenny got their first chance to hold Turner and fed him a bottle.

Addi and Maddox had a lot of energy to burn even though they had just been on a six hour airplane ride.

Addi enjoyed pretending to be Chloe.

Maddox doing the twist.

Maddox playing on Turner's mat.

Addi also enjoyed the stairs. We cant wait to spend some more time with them over the next few weeks.

Turner's starring role

For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Luke 2:11
Below you see the Holy family as they appeared in Raleigh in 2008. Note the Holy Baby Seat that bore Jesus on donkey back from Bethlehem to Nazareth and Ye Holy Pacifier in the babe's mouth.
We were asked to help in a church production for Christmas, and since we had a young baby, guess who we were asked to play. Turner played his part perfectly. Actually the young children that were in attendance really had a good time as several church members took part in acting out the story of the first Christmas.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Christmas has arrived in Apex.

Behold our festive greenery.

Welcome to the Boone estate.

The holly bushes with their red berries create a holiday atmosphere. Oh bring us some figgy pudding.

Visions of sugar plums.



We have a little elf infestation at our house.

Think Santa will visit this year? We arent too sure yet!

Chloe's troubles

We recently had a big scare with poor little Chloe. As many of you know, she has severe epilepsy and will have major seizures every two to three weeks that will last several days. Typically we have been able to medicate her and pull her out of the seizure cycle. This past Friday she began to have a grand mal seizure which for her normally consists of two large seizures and a recovery time. Except this time, she kept having the larger seizures. We finally administered some valium to her that stopped the immediate seizures but over the next few days she kept having them and we couldnt break the cycle. We finally ran out of valium and didnt want to give her any more phenobarbitol and on Sunday she had seizure after seizure to the point where we needed to take her to the emergency room. By that time the seizures and the medicine had affected her so badly that she could barely move. But we got her in the car and to the emergency room where they took some blood samples and administered more medicine by IV. She stayed there overnight and only had one more seizure. We brought her home Monday morning and for two days she didnt move very much but on Tuesday afternoon we got her outside and she was able to walk around which always seems to be the best medicine for her. We were very frightened that once the medicine wore off she would start the grand mal seizures again, but we have been fortunate in that she has gotten back to her old self. She is feeling so well in fact that she is once again on the prowl for squirrels, strangers, and young boys. We don't know how much longer Chloe will be with us but we are happy for all the extra time we can get!

Some of Turner's favorite things

Turner has several items that he loves to look and smile at and to play with.

Turner really loves his magic swing. It helps him sleep multiple times a day.

Turner entertains himself for long periods of time with his playmat.
This is Mister Fan, Turner's best friend. Turner likes to flirt with Mister Fan.
And Turner's favorite thing in the whole world is his beautiful mom!

A Very Turner Thanksgiving

Turner and his Mom and Dad enjoyed time with family over the Thanksgiving weekend. On Thursday, Turner got all dressed up to celebrate.

Lunch was in Gibsonville with the Boone side of the family. On the couch are cousins Jodie and Katie with Mom keeping a watchful eye in the background.

Uncle Adam even made an appearance, coming down off the mountain for a couple of days.

Turner likes to pretend he's flying sometimes at family events.

Later that evening, the Morris family gathered at Grams and Papa's house. Turner wasn't in the best of moods and declined to have his picture taken.

On Friday evening, we returned to the Vasbinder house for hotdogs and s'mores over the fire pit. The Yangs were in town for the weekend and Turner enjoyed in depth conversations with his cousins.
Riley and Turner exploring the philosophical underpinnings of High School Musical 3.
Ty zipping by.
Ty thinks his Papa is number 1.
Saturday night it was the Staton family's turn to get together for Thanksgiving. Turner spent time with his Mamaw, his Gran, and his Gladys Ann.

He also enjoyed seeing his Granpa, Aunt Sandy, Cousin Sherri, Uncle Sherman, and Rick.
And even though he didn't cooperate for long, he did spend some time with his Papaw!

Thanksgiving is always a fun time with the family even with Mister Turner in a bad mood.