One of the many downsides of living so far from family is that our kids never get to wake up on Christmas morning in their own house. Having put up with this in my own childhood, I was really determined this year to make up for it by making the preparations for Christmas really special. […]
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Loving the Nativity
Posted in Elizabeth on Dec 10th, 2010
This year we are pretty lame in the Christmas decorations department. All we managed to get up was our short, fake tree, and my mini fake tree from college. We set up my mini nativity from college next to the little one, and we’ve told the kids those are their Christmas things to play with. […]
This morning we were back to normal silliness after Tommy’s brief stomach bug. Elizabeth was all smiles… Tommy cracked us up by putting on his pants the wrong way (inspired by his sister’s attempts to dress herself)… And everyone was generally affectionate… Since we had our first real (=enough to play in) snow this morning, […]
Cookie Decorating
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Homemaking, Tommy on Dec 8th, 2010
This week I decided we needed to do something Christmasy to distract from last week’s events. So Tommy and I made homemade cut-out cookies Sunday (using Emily S’s classic Kingdom Group recipe), then we had our neighbors over to decorate Christmas cookies with us on Monday. The boys both frosted just two or three before […]
Kelly was surprised last week to see that Elizabeth is a thumb-sucker. Obviously I haven’t highlighted that enough on the blog! Here’s what she looks like most of the day: And here’s what Tommy likes to do lately:
We’re caught up on youtube! Here are the kids dancing last week:
Elizabeth's 18 Month Stats
Posted in Elizabeth on Nov 18th, 2010
Elizabeth had a really eventful trip to the doctor yesterday, and I want to thank my lovely readers who have commented on my literature posts for helping keep my mind off medical malpractice last night! I really needed the distraction… So yesterday Elizabeth had her 18-month check-up. The doctor told us that due to her egg […]
These two just LOVE to help Mommy cook…
Elizabeth at 18 months
Posted in Elizabeth on Nov 13th, 2010
It’s pretty crazy to think that Elizabeth is 18 months old today! She’s changed a lot this past month…completely dropped her morning nap (she was in the process of dropping it last month), eating everything with a fork or spoon, growing out of her 12-18 month clothes (she must be “normal” to clothes makers), and […]