Christmas '07, part 4: guitar playing, church, and "sledding"

We're going to wrap up the Christmas stories here because I've got some new posts I'm excited to do but I'm trying to keep a chronological order...

Here's a quick reference to the other posts from Will's second Christmas season: part 1, part 2, part 3

...Besides the Wiimotes and the walking lion, the other thing at the Lodge that really grabbed Will's attention, and which he demanded he get to touch, was Uncle Grant's guitar. Since they're buddies, Uncle Grant let him play it a bit, and we tried to teach him how to strum it. Eventually he figured it out.

Grandma and Grandpa's church in Minocqua is brand new and very beautiful. On Christmas day we went to the service - here Will is dressed and posing in his Sunday best.

At the church, before Mass began they made sure to remind everyone that they had a state-of-the-art cry room in the back. After a few minutes of being a very good boy in church, Will got too wiggly so mom had to take him out. Fortunately she had remembered the best possible pacifier - the Wiimote! Erin mentioned a few people hanging out in the back recognized what Will was holding and had a good laugh about it.

When we got home from church it was time to take off the tie and pants and get down with some serious Wiimote holding.

In the picture on the right, Will is a dead ringer for Tom Cruise in Risky Business.

After we got about 2 feet of snow dumped on us during the week, we finally bundled up with the plans of taking Will sledding for the first time. We had thought we saw a sled in the Lodge shed, but were bummed to find out it was just a plastic storage bin. Then we figured, maybe that will still work...

I cut some holes in the bin and found a perfect length of rope to feed through. Then we pulled Will on a long walk, sometimes going fast (see the video clip below), and he seemed to really like it. About halfway through the walk he fell asleep, it was very cute. We're going to count this as his first time sledding.

Thus concludes our holiday season. Happy New Year everyone!