Tatum's First Christmas Eve

Here's the family Christmas Eve.  Tatum's wearing my Christmas dress that mom smocked for me.  Surprisingly, it fit her!

Shalane and Ally

Philip and Maw Maw

Nonnie and Tatum

All of the grandkids....Tatum was pretty fussy at this point!

 The Sikes

Best Friends!

The grandchildren minus Tatum since she was screaming at this point

Ally with her pillow pet

Kaity got in Ally's box

Mr. Tommy and Philip

Christmas Eve was fun!   We went to the Christmas Eve Service and there was snow!  Then ate our traditional potatoes with cheesy broccoli sauce.  YUM!  Tatum was very fussy.  I'm not sure if her having formula once a day is causing it or what...we shall see! 

Christmas day Tatum got up about 7:40 and we opened presents.  She received a pair of heels and an LSU onesie that says "working on my roar."  She also got diapers from Mama Jo and an ornament.  We ate lunch with Mama Jo.  Still to come is Christmas with JuJu and Tuffy as well as the O'Dell Christmas!

December

So this month Tatum has been laughing and smiling!  Her laughing is the cutest thing EVER!  It's like a "belly laugh."  That first person she laughed at was her Papa!  Then for Philip and I soon after.  She has gotten to wear all of her Christmas dresses, including the one that Mom made for me for my first Christmas.

Today we went to the opthamologist and they seem to think that Tatum will need glasses next month if her vision doesn't improve.  Her left eye goes in a bit trying to focus.  In this picture her eyes are still dilated!

Tatum went to her first wedding this weekend in New Orleans.  Aunt Lauren got married in New Orleans and the service lasted as long as it took for Tatum to take her bottle.  ;)

We are going to see Santa soon so I will post a pic of that visit too.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving this year was especially special since Tatum was here for it as well as Matt, Jessica, and Reed.  They were in town for that week and we enjoyed spending time together.  We hosted the O'Dell Thanksgiving lunch at our house and really enjoyed having all of the cousins over.

Here's a family picture of Matt, Jessica, and Reed.  Reed thought that taking pictures was HILARIOUS apparently.

The night before Thanksgiving we all hung out at Stephen and Rachel's house.  The girls thought it would be funny to put Reed in a cheerleader outfit.  He played along and yelled GO tigers!  Much to his father's dismay.  We're keeping this picture for sure to show him one day!  As continue to joke with Noah about wearing a lingerie piece when he was a little boy in a beauty contest ;)

Emily and Tatum

Tatum and I on Thanksgiving Day

Here are all of the O'Dell great grandchildren that were able to be there Thanksgiving.  Not all the kids were wanting to cooperate.  ;)

This year we have plenty to be thankful for.  First of all the health of both Tatum and I since we were both so sick when she came into this world.  Also having our family be able to be together this Thanksgiving.  And playing cranium with cousins.....which was fun ;)