Christmas Recap

We just finished up a great Christmas day. I think the kids had fun with all their new stuff and we enjoyed hanging out with mom and dad and not getting out of our pjs.

We headed over to Ohio New Years eve. We got to see Grandma this year which was great (and I'm REALLY kicking myself for not getting any pictures with grandma). Belle recognized her right away and pretty much stuck with her when ever she saw her.

Christmas Eve morning we headed over to Sara's for a quick exchange of gifts between the cousins. The kids had fun playing in Sara's new basement and it made me wish we had a place to banish the kids to and leave all the toys. Ah well.


These next two pictures are hilarious. Ethan for whatever reason decided he was a boob man and kept wanting to bury his head in Sara's boobs. Oh man, I think we were all crying we were laughing so hard. Guess he found those ample pregnancy boobs too hard to resist. =)




Look at the boys. It's hard to believe they've grown up so much. They look like little boys now. **sniff**


Check out last years Christmas. What a difference a year makes.



Christmas Eve afternoon we headed over to Ginghamsburg for the Christmas Eve service. I took Belle this time. Figured she needed to start learning how to sit through a service and be quiet. She did pretty well I think for a 3 yr old. I gave her a sucker to keep her mouth otherwise occupied, but I think that started to backfire once the sugar started kicking in. She also got to hang out with her favorite second cousin Cheyanne at our annual family Christmas get together.

Belle was even able to say Cheyanne this year instead of "Shiny"


We headed home after the party to get ready for Christmas at our house. Chris gave Belle some cookies for the ride home. Once Belle ate those she said she was still hungry and we told her that she couldn't have any thing else. Ethan was in his seat eating gold fish crackers out of a bowl. Not sure how Belle conned Ethan but I looked back and Ethan was passing handfuls of crackers to his sister and Belle was just shoving them in. Once Ethan ran out of crackers Belle kept asking him for more and he'd search and search in his bowl for some more. Finally he held up his bowl for her to see that they were in fact gone. It was cute to see Ethan helping his sister out.

Luckily the kids haven't started getting up at the butt crack of dawn like my sister and I did for Christmas. Belle slept in til 8. She got up and when she came downstairs she found what she'd been waiting months and months for, her Pillow Pet. Thats the first and only thing she ever really said she wanted. Ethan was much more interested in the paper.




Not soon after presents Mimi and Poppy came over with their slew of presents. Ethan got a basketball hoop which he loves. They both got all kinds of things. I think Belle likes her Princess barbies and her card game set. She really liked playing go fish and old maid.

Poppy thought Ethan needed his first deer call. Ethan loved it.


One new tradition in the house was making a cake for Jesus. Belle sang Happy Birthday to Jesus and blew out the candles.


Its so crazy to look back at last years Christmas post. We had feeding struggles with Ethan and potty training with Belle. We've come so far. =)

Holiday Activities

Belle recently had her first preschool program. It was cute. Belle of course had no problem being up in front of people. She belted it out from the front row.

I didn't get any good pictures. We did however get decent video. I'll try to get that up soon.





We also took a trip to the Christmas at the Zoo. I thought Belle would love all the lights, but she was too preoccupied with giving us attitude. Ethan loved getting out and looking at all the neat things.

First Haircut

Well I couldn't stand it anymore. Ethan's hair had to be cut. Poor kid was looking like a shaggy dog. I had intentions on taking him to one of those kids places. Just because I thought a video might distract him and Belle could play on the slide in the meantime. Well I couldn't wait for it to open so we went to Great Clips. Belle always gets a better haircut there anyways.

He did so good for the cut. I gave him a sucker and he just let the girl clip away. Even let her use the clippers.

He looks like he aged a year.

Did you get a Moose?

Belle has been funny lately. She has it in her head that Nic is hunting Moose. I guess a deer with antlers could look like a moose. Well when Nic came home from hunting one day this is the conversation Nic and Belle had.

Belle: "Daddy, did you get a Moose?"
Nic: "No they were too far away"
Belle: "You need to get closer, them jump and go boom"

Now whenever Nic walks in the door, she think he was hunting and asks if he got a moose.