Christmas

Here's a few pictures from Christmas-I won't add all the details of our crazy holiday season-it's exhausting, but great fun every year. More pictures to come after I get them from our parents.

And a few pictures from after Christmas-notice the mountain of gifts we had after going to both parents' houses on Christmas. And the lovely circle of pine needles left after we took our tree down.

Mr. Isaac the Goofball

Isaac cracks me up every day-see why?



*The picture of him sleeping is after church on Sunday eating treats from Jake's grandma (she'd been making them every Sunday for the kids since Jake was little). This is what happens when we switch to 1:00 church and Isaac still naps every day for 2 hours.

Naughty Llama

It's weird, but I call Leah my little llama. (Think of the song Mama Mia, but substitute Llama Leah) A llama is less than desirable, especially as a nickname, but so it goes. And she's fiesty-almost always-so she is often called a naughty llama. Sounds cute at least, right? Here she is in her naughty glory-and then just looking plain cute one day after church in a little sweater dress.

Happy Birthday Grandma

My mom's birthday was on the 12th (the big 5-0!!) and since she works in accounting she's been super busy working on tax stuff. Rather than take up time during the work day to call her the kids and I emailed her some pictures. They're so cute I thought I'd share them with everyone. Surprisingly, these are the only 2 I took-I was expecting to have to take several and choose a decent one. Thankfully the kids were especially cute and cooperative this day!

11 months

Leah is only one month away from being a year old. It's amazing how time goes by so quickly!

-She is still crawling and climbing everywhere. We have yet to get a gate for the stairs, which she can climb all the way up if she really wanted to. She's only fallen once-and that was down at Jake's parents' house. Thankfully, she wasn't hurt, just scared and only cried for a minute.
-This little girl can eat! She loves any food and will drink pretty much anything. She's still nursing several times a day and that's just fine with me.
-She is a "yes" girl-anything you ask her she'll say, "ya" and will often nod her head too. Super cute. She also says "da," but not discriminately.
-We were finally able to change her earrings from the ones that were put in when we got her ears pierced. It didn't hurt her at all, but you would have thought this girl was being tortured! She HATES being held down for any reason and this was certainly no exception. Changing her diaper and getting her dressed are often a challenge with this little wiggle worm.
-Leah LOVES to take a bath. She's pretty tolerant of Isaac's splashing and spraying (there's a spray bottle in the tub as a toy) and could live in the water if we let her.
-She's finally sleeping better (not through the night) and usually wakes up once a night around 5 or 6. Every so often she'll sleep until 7, but that's rare. Naps are hit and miss-she sleeps during the day, but is resisting a schedule of any kind.
-Her hair is now long enough for several styles, though she still won't keep a bow or flower in her hair. Sometimes she can even yank out the little rubber bands. Not to mention getting them in-see above about being held down.
-We love this little girl and are looking forward to her first birthday party in a couple of weeks.

King of the Throne

We have been living the exciting life of potty-training around here the last little while. Isaac has done really well with it. I fear to write this now as I put Isaac down for his nap in underwear and not a diaper like I have been. He's been asleep for over 3 hours. Not sure what to expect. He's woken up with a dry diaper from all night and his naps the last several days so I figure why not?!? So far the only issue is that he's so stinking skinny there's only one brand of underwear that will stay on him. Why don't they just make regular 2T underwear instead of 2T/3T?!?!? What is the deal? Hopefully he'll continue doing well. It's great only have 1 in diapers! Hmm...as I sit here and write this Leah just filled-probably overfilled-her diaper. Lovely. Guess that ends this post!

Check out that cute little boy bum in REAL underwear!!

Sledding

Saturday was quite nice (almost 30°) so we went sledding at Jake's parents' house. Isaac thought it OK, Leah LOVED it. She laughed the whole way down the hill, then laughed most the way up the hill. At one point she managed to get her mitten off and was exploring the snow. The cold didn't seem to bother her. Isaac loves to play in the snow, but doesn't enjoy the fast ride down in the sled.