Holiday Happenings

Some pictures of our Christmas celebrations...

Sugar High

Isabel LOVES suckers and lollipops, so she was ecstatic when we went to a friend's birthday party and they had lollipops that she could eat instead of cake.

"Wintery" Fun

Robert and Isabel had a special daddy, daughter outing today at the zoo. They had a great time checking out all of the animals who were taking advantage of the beautiful 85° day we are having on this the first day of winter.

Who Has More Hair?

Since Robert has two weeks off for the holidays he decided to try out a new haircut. Which one of them has more hair now?

Fall

There's still a few days left of fall, and the leaves are finally falling from our trees. We spent some time this weekend raking up and Isabel had a great time "crunching in the leaves".

Three Months

I say it every month, but wow, time goes by fast. Oliver is three months old now and it is hard to believe. He's ringing in the beginning of his forth month with his forth cold, poor guy, but other than that he is doing great. He no longer is happy just laying around looking at his toys for long. He wants to be right next to one of us watching something, and he wants to be carried around. Thankfully he really likes his carrier pack, so I can have two free hands most of the time. He also really likes "standing" on our laps, and whenever I have him laying on my legs he curls his head up and tries to sit himself up as well. Things are feeling like they are starting to return to normal a little bit as Oliver becomes more predictable. He is taking three to four naps during the day, and eating once or twice at night (although has taken to waking up every forty-five minutes all night long). He will take a bottle, and has started sucking his first two fingers to comfort himself so now I feel like he is becoming an actual human being instead of a baby lump and we can have a little bit of a life.

Cute Kids

We were playing outside the other day and I took these pictures. I just thought they were cute and wanted to share.

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Last year we had record snowfalls here, and Isabel sort of remembers it. She keeps asking when it is going to snow. So she was amazed and delighted when we went to the mall yesterday and it was "snowing" in their Christmas display. She stood in this little corner and let the snow (bubbles) fall on her for almost fifteen minutes. She didn't care at all about the fact that Santa was around the corner, she was just fascinated with the snow.