Merry Christmas!

Parker's Announcement

Just in case I missed someone....

Hannah's Scooter

Hannah got a new scooter for Christmas.  Here is some pictures and video of her trying it out.

Here comes Santa Claus!

The terror of Santa:

So here is my take on why kids are scared of Santa. He is a large man, a stranger with an obscene amount of facial hair. His suit is old and smelly and we hand our children over to him to sit on it. We tell our children that this man (he is a stranger remember this) watches you all the time to see if you are good. This is pretty creepy. Also this man who essentially stalks you sneaks into your house in the middle of the nights and eats your food.

All of that to say, Hannah has conquered her fear.

She told Santa that she wanted a "Bigger Dollhouse" this year and she was excited to do it! Thank goodness the need for new toys outweighs the fear of strange hairy men.

Parker didn't care either way, he is familiar with being passed off to any friendly face.

Gingerbread house

Hannah and I made our annual Gingerbread house today and I think it is the best ever!

This year she really wanted to make it look good, instead of just play with the candy.

I still can't get a good smile!

FYI it is the Target brand gingerbread house. By far the best one we have ever purchased. I usually have to make extra icing but not this year! It wasn't on one of those silly plastic trays, it was pre-attached to this cardboard.

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving!

We had a great Pre-Thanksgiving at Granmommy's house then on Thanksgiving day we went to Aunt Donna's house.

It was Parker's first! He enjoyed eating his fist.

Hannah and Parker posing together.

Playing outside with Pappy and Uncle Eric

posing by the scarcrow

ready to go home! Sitting in Daddy's lap!

Parker - 2 Months

Parker is 2 months old!

The time is flying by! My baby is holding his head up, putting weight on his legs, jumping, cooing, laughing, smiling and having "conversations"

He has found his toys and loves them! His favorites are all mirror but especially the one on his changing table and the mirror elephant on his bounce seat. He loves the same 3 toys his sister absolutely loved, a stuffed cow with a mirror head, a worm that lights up and make silly noises and a "catterpod" a caterpillar music player.

He also is starting to like rattles and enjoys them a lot more than his sister.

Here are my sweet kids sharing the couch.

Parker LOVES his reflection. He can spend a pretty lengthy amount of time playing on the changing table with his mirror.

Parker Stats:

11lbs 11oz

24"long