Busy Baby

The anticipation of Christmas has the Cibula household bustling. The house is full of family, dogs, presents, and cookies. With all of the excitement, Jack has been a busy baby. It started yesterday with a holiday family party. My great Aunt and Uncle and 3 second cousins, who are home from college, came over to celebrate with my Mom, Grandma, Uncle Jim, Jon, Clay, Jack and I. We had a wonderfully loud house full! Jack, who is a new crawler, made his way to the beer tub immediately, and dug right in. We couldn't help but snapping a picture of the thieving baby. Luckily, all he was able to snatch was a piece of ice. After being passed around, kissed on, and a little football watching with the boys, (the ratio was 9 to 4), he was off to a peaceful sleep.


The sleep was well needed because Christmas Eve day was even busier. The family loaded up in the car, (poor Jon was thrown in the way back seats), and we headed downtown to the Georgia Aquarium. Jack started the journey in his stroller. We pulled him right up to the glass of each tank and he watched in awe as the fish floated by. Occasionally he even tried to talk to them and didn't even mind when there was no response back. It didn't take long before he batted his big blue eyes and did a little wiggle in his stroller and Jon had him in his arms. He loved when Jon took him up close and he was able to climb on and touch the aquarium glass. His favorite sea creatures were the glowing jellyfish. He practically scaled the glass wall trying to swim with them. Jack was enjoying himself so much that he didn't even realize that he was missing his afternoon nap. He was passed from family member to family member and enjoyed the varying views from each person's arms. After 3 long hours of fish fun it was time to leave. As soon as Jack's weary head hit the car seat he was out for the ride home.

As busy as we have been, I can only imagine what Christmas Day will be like...only a couple more hours to find out!