Vacation

Our family is so blessed! We were able to stay at a beautiful vacation home for the last week with our extended family. The children each hit milestones while we were away. Caleb is now an expert at pedaling his trike. We braved the frigid temperatures for a few walks. He had so much fun riding around the trails surrounding the home. Natalie can now roll over from her back to her tummy! She loves the new vantage point. We are also enjoying her new found voice...she will giggle, coo, and try hard to explain many things to us! Her smile lights up the room.

Precious Baby Girl!

I Love Hats!

Sleepytime and Batman

Today was a crazy, stressful day... I tried to calm things down this evening by putting Caleb in his favorite Batman jammies and turning on relaxing music. Here are some pictures of what followed.

These are a few of my favorite things...

I love the feeling of my baby sleeping on my shoulder. It is calming to feel her little breaths, the heaviness of her entire weight entrusted to me, and the look on her angelic little closed-eyed face.

I love the way my son curls up on my lap in the morning. We sit under a blanket together and watch Handy Manny, Micky Mouse Playhouse, and Little Einsteins. I love how he will get up and dance around to the "hot dog" song. And beg me to play it for him again. And again.

I love the evenings we are able to spend as a family. Relaxing in our living room, eating dinner together. I love when my son begs for "both" to put him to bed. We all sing the night night song "Jesus Loves Me" and pray.

Thank you Lord for my family. For they are a few of my favorite things.

Rainy Day Play Dough

Caleb has been going stir crazy with all of the rainy weather. I got out some play dough today that he received for his birthday. He loved playing with it!

Christmas Creativity

This year Caleb was old enough to start understanding a little bit about Christmas! He learned that it is baby Jesus' birthday. He loved to point out baby Jesus on all of my nativity sets around the house. Caleb also helped grandma make some special Christmas cookies. It is fun to watch his creative juices flowing as he learns the process....

First you cut out the dough....

Then decorate with icing and sprinkles...

It takes some concentration....

Finally you get to eat!



And Share...

Natalie is watching her big brother, learning for next year.

Hmm...

Well I tried to post some pictures from Christmas today, but I keep getting an internal error with the pictures...I think the blogger site is having some difficulties! I will try again tomorrow. Today is windy and rainy. A great day to stay in the house with the kids and do crafts.

A New Adventure

Here is the little tornado that whirls around my house each day! Caleb loves to tell us what he sees... choo choo trains, helicopters, and cars are some of his favorites. What a joy it is to finally hear what he has been thinking about all this time.

This is my sweet Natalie. I took a few moments while Caleb napped to snap some new pictures. She is 3 months old now and has discovered how nice her hands taste! I am amazed at how quickly my children are growing.