Happy first day of December! Let the Christmas traditions begin! The books are wrapped and the kids are excited to start unwrapping one each day. I've added in a few new ones this year.
One of the big things The Daughter looked forward to about being a 3rd grader was learning cursive. She's often found doodling and writing on any notepad left laying around these days.
The stomach bug knocked us all down one-by-one over the course of a week. It was miserable.
The Little Man's obsession with The Polar Express is very much still present. He has to watch it at least once a day and has set-up his trains in front of the TV so he can act it out while watching. To save the sanity of the rest of us, it is packed up with the Christmas decorations the day after Christmas.
And this little one has come down with the stomach bug too. The rest of us were down with it for a day or two while she just kept getting sicker by the day. Sick babies are so sad.
A little person found this frosting sitting on the counter and decided to eat it all with a spoon. The ENTIRE container. The Little Man says he didn't do it but his chocolate mustache and belly ache say differently.
The Little Man has a hard time watching movies he has never seen before all at one time. He normally runs to his room for a bit but will return after a few minutes. When he ran off shortly after we started Arthur Christmas, we didn't think anything of it until after several minutes passed and he had not returned and wasn't responding to his name. We checked in his room and he wasn't there. We checked in the basement, the closet, the bathrooms...After searching for what felt like at least a half hour (in reality it was more like 10 mins max) we found him in our bed under all the covers sound asleep still plugging his ears. Poor guy.
The tradition of Toys for Tots shopping continued. Each of the kiddos picked out something they would enjoy having and then they donated them to Toys for Tots.
The Little Man has been busy making gifts and thinks that they should all be hung on the tree for all to see.
We both got much needed new glasses. Merry Christmas to us.
Randy & I took the Little Man out on a date to McDonald's and to a Polar Express event at Barnes and Noble. It was fun focusing totally on him for the evening.
Randy really enjoyed reading the book the kids unwrapped each day. It's such a fun tradition and the fact that everyone enjoys it makes the work of wrapping all the books up completely worth it.
Baby Girl & I hung out in the ER getting re-hydrated and having some more tests done. She has been throwing up for 2 weeks now, has lost over a pound (weight upon being admitted was 11 lbs 15oz) and has started throwing up blood. No one can figure out what is going on. She's on Zofran to hopefully get some calories in her while they work on figuring things out in the next couple weeks.
The Polar Express (a.k.a. the van) headed to the Senske Light display. It was the perfect Christmas Eve Eve activity. All aboard!
The Christmas Eve tradition of receiving new pajamas continues. Some liked them more than others.
We had a wonderful Christmas spent with my Grandparents and family. Yummy treats were eaten, presents exchanged and great conversations had. It was the perfect relaxing day.
We had a white Christmas! The kids loved it. The Little Man hated the pink snow pants but it was all we had because he had outgrown his own. The curse of having a older sister, I guess. Randy couldn't believe I sent him out like that or that I took a picture of them and mumbled something about having to wear a purple coat from his sisters when he was little. But he was warm....
We hung out with our FamLee a lot. Dinners, games and sleepovers oh my!
Baby girl got her first tooth. She refused to let me photograph the moment.
Richie & Linda came for the baptism of our cousin Rhonda's kiddos (so proud of their decision!) While they were in town these little girls got to hang out for the first time. Yay, for cousins so close in age!
Strengthening our FamLee one scripture at a time. Something I look forward to all day. What you don't see in this picture is the 15 minutess it takes to round up everyone or that it only lasts 5 minutess at the most before we've lost their attention.
And at the end of the month Baby Girl celebrated 6 months. She's sitting on her own, babbling and melts our hearts constantly. <3 p="">
And that's it. 2012 is over. It was a good year but yet at the same time a very trying year. So grateful for Photo of The Day Challenge. It's really help see the blessings in the trying times.
And that's it. 2012 is over. It was a good year but yet at the same time a very trying year. So grateful for Photo of The Day Challenge. It's really help see the blessings in the trying times.
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