6 Months Old

Yesterday was Sadie's 6 month birthday. You've heard it a million times, but it is so crazy how fast time goes with these little ones. I don't know if it's because we're so busy with them all that we don't have time to notice, or maybe it's just me getting older (yikes). What an intense season... but so joyful and amazing!

This little girl loves to blow raspberries. All day long. She is a very happy baby, and when she smiles really big, she crinkles her little nose. We're working on sitting up... and taking a bottle is still presenting challenges! She HATES them, cries and pushes it around in her mouth. So we are focusing on solids so that daddy and I can... hopefully... go on a date for Valentines Day next weekend! We are enjoying this little girl so much and we love that she is so different from her big sister. And the hair is still getting bigger!

Random cute pictures from the last few weeks

It's been COLD outside!!!

Sadie dancing with her daddy...

Charlie and Avery being cute...

Sadie having her first food!

Note: get hair product for Sadie

Crescent Bar

Thius last weekend we had a chance to get away with our friends, the Myers. They have a place in Crescent Bar, and even in the middle of winter, it was so much fun to get away for a change of scenery. We made yummy breakfast every day, and Charlie got to have his first sleepover with his buddy Olivia.

We bundled up the kids and had the daddiesa take them to the hot tub. Avery was really excited to get in her swimsuit... nevermind that she absolutely hated the hot tub and Paul had to run her back up to the house.

Here thet all are bundled up for the hot tub. It was cold!!!

A day in the life of a preschooler...

I'm a little behind on my blogging, so here goes! Last week we were FINALLY able to celebrate Charlie's birthday with his preschool class. After rescheduling a few times due to snow and floods, the day had finally come. Avery got to come with us and hang out in the classroom for a little while and join the party. Charlie was so proud to introduce his little sister to all his friends.

Charlie got to wear a special crown for his birthday celebration.

The kids sat so well behaved at circle time. Avery loved Miss Leslie reading a book to the group, but got a little antsy. Her eyes were as big as saucers looking around at all the big kids!

Avery LOVES my little pony. At school they had an entire basket full of them so she was in heaven. We had such a fun day!

How are they related???!!!

These two pictures just happened to be next to eachother as I was uploading them. It is crazy how little alike these two girls are!

One of Avery's Christmas presents was this little pack of "play" makeup... which didn't realize was ACTUAL makeup, otherwise we would have never bought it. But boy, has she had fun making a mess with it! And she got to try her hand at her artistry skills on mommy. She wants to be just like me. :)

Charlie's 4th Birthday!

Last Saturday December 27th, we celebrated Charlie's 4th Birthday. It's always a little wild just two days after Christmas, but this year I actually got my act together and planned a little party for him at Kidz Bounce. It was such a fun day! He got to play with all his little buddies and celebrate his big day with them.

Halfway through the festivities, Charlie and his buddy Benjamin were sliding together and Charlie somehow hurt his finger pretty badly. We have quite a collection of pictures documenting Charlie's sad little expressions... and as you can tell, Benjamin is quite concerned for him. I can't believe we actually managed to get ALL the kids who were there to pose for a group shot! The only one missing is little Sadie... she was sleeping in Grammie's arms.

We headed back home after the party to open presents and have lunch with the Grandparents. Later that evening, we took all the kids to see Despereaux and eat at Red Robin. Such a fun day for our big boy... and he's so proud to be four!

White Christmas

What a wonderful Christmas we had with our family! It began snowing Christmas Eve morning, and didn't stop until this afternoon. I can't remember the last time we truly had a white Christmas. It was magical! This year brought new joy to the season as we watched Christmas unfold through the eyes of our children. And it brings back so many wonderful memories!

Paul and the kids got to make a snowman on Christmas! Charlie named it Frosty, and the kids LOVE him. They hug him. Charlie says we need to go to the store tomorrow to get carrots for his nose. (I also forgot to leave carrots out for Rudolph last night, and he was very distraught about that)

We started out our holiday celebrating with Grammy Carol and Papa Tom for brunch yesterday. They barely made it up the hill to our house with all the snow! Thankfully Papa had chains to put on his truck. The snow was so bad that we ended up running a "shuttle" from our house to the store so that nobody had to get stuck in our neighborhood. There must be at least a foot and a half on the ground!

The view out of my kitchen window yesterday

Sadie enjoyed her first Christmas! Next year she'll be creating all kinds of chaos, no doubt.

Avery opened her presents with such concentration I thought she would burn a hole through them. She is very pleased with all her new dolly's and clothes! Dora was definately the theme this year...

Uncle Craig and Sadie... the girls love their uncle and enjoyed spending some qt with him today. I think Avery has a crush on him.

Grammy and Papa braved the snow and headed over this morning and spent the whole day at our house. We had so much fun spending the day with them.