A Family Tradition

Every year we got to Santa's village to see Santa and his reindeer. This year Nanny and the Merrow's came with us. We usually go at night and we are freezing and the kids are sliding down the hill on the snow and we are taking turns running up to get hot cocoa to help warm up! Not this year we were a bit chilly but no snow.

Caleb was nice and toasty
Ethan was so excited!

Ethan was so excited that he forgot to ask Santa for a Buzz Lightyear night light so we sent him a letter just to be on the safe side.

Caleb didn't like seeing Santa

Fun with Food

Ethan's school invited the dad's to come and have fun with food. They built gingerbread houses out of grahm crackers, frosting and candy. They both had a great time building the house and eating the left over candy.

New Do's

Eric took Alex and Ethan down town to Tony's barber shop to get thier hair cut.
Alex never had a buzz cut before. I think he looks great.

Oh Christmas Tree

We bought this tree last year and never opened the box so we were so excited to see how pretty it was.

Happy 4th Birthday Ethan

Four years ago yesterday at 7:00am we went to the hospital so that I could be induced. I wanted to deliver the baby drug free, after about 12 hours of hard labor the midwife talked me into stadol (sp?) and eventually an epidural. After the epidural my blood pressure dropped which is normal but they had a hard time bringing it back up Eric quickly called his dad and after a blessing all was well with my blood pressure. After 2 hours of pushing (during which my epidural wears off) they decide to send me for a c-section, at 4:51am the doctor held Ethan up and said "it's a boy and a big one" as they sewed me up they were trying to guess just how much the baby weighed, I guessed 9 lbs because I thought that was a big baby but every one laughed when a nurse came back and annouced that he weighed 10lbs 15.9 ozs.

I am so grateful for the blessing of our baby bird he is so kind and loving he truly is an answer to our prayers.

Box houses are the best

All the boys love the box house we made yesterday

especially Caleb!

Do I have a baby Orangatang?

I watched a show about baby orangatangs and thaught wow thats exactly how I feel!

Caleb is always hanging off of me it doesn't really matter what I'm doing or trying to do. A lot of meals in my house are prepared with Caleb hanging onto the back of my legs as I shuffle around the kitchen so that he can keep up.

I love him so much but do I have a baby orangatang?