More fun

Elizabeth has officially dropped her morning nap....but she still loves to sleep and that is just fine with us! She typically sleeps from 7 pm to about 8 am....but she has been known to sleep until 10!!!
So, we are free to go out and play and go on fun adventures without having to rush home for the morning nap.
I took the kids to the Please Touch Museum the other day. This is the first time we have been without meeting friends or rushing home to nap. It was so much fun to see them BOTH play and explore!

This was a remodeled room...you got to build rockets and then launch them!

A little blury, but caught them in action!

Silly boy!

Elizabeth LOVES this ride!!!!

Making a craft project at home. This is one of Kyle's new favorite activities...of course any kind of sport is still his first choice!

Big boy at the dentist

Dentist Kyle...working on his surprise treat from the dentist...a snake!

FYI...Elizabeth also had her first visit to the dentist...she stayed on my lap for the cleaning and exam

More December Fun!

We decided to make a ginger bread house this year. It was a LOT of fun! Elizabeth should enjoy it a bit more next year.
Kyle is mixing the icing....and yes...he is in underware again!

Support system while the first step dries

waiting for all the pieces to stick together and dry....still in undies!

Ah...finally some clothes!...decorating with Daddy

The finished Rudolph house!

Birthday party at Bounce U

Kyle and Dave played lots of dodge ball

And basketball

WEEEEEEEEEEEE

Little weeeeeeeeee

My cuties! I was cleaning up the kitchen from lunch and these two were playing sooooooo sweetly together! It got very quiet and then I found them "hiding" under the blankets...and I even got a video of them playing without them seeing me...it was priceless!...see video below

Hmmmmm, I wonder where they are?

Oh, there you are!

First snow of the year....the last??????

Too cold for her to go out today

Of course, in our house, decorating the house can become a sport.....they are throwing the "balls" candy at the roof to get them to stick!











Ooops...shot this one sideways, but worth watching..they had no clue I was there!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

This was supposed to be the last picture....oops again
Elizabeth had her first real time out today. She had a book and was reading quitely...Kyle came along and wanted the book....he reached across her to take it and they were tugging at it a few seconds when Kyle let out a cry. She had bitten him on the arm...and left teeth marks! So, I put her in time out......she just sat quietly and then told Kyle she was sorry...I guess she has seen him demonstrate this numerous times! Kyle said, "thats ok, Liz-bef...just don't eat me again!".......is it bad that I sort of thought the whole thing was cute?

Kyle and I had a good time decorating our house for Christmas today. We talked about the Christmas story, and I was so proud that he could tell me the important details! We decorated most of the house while Elizabeth was asleep. When we got her up, we took her downstairs to see the house and Kyle said "look what we did for Jesus' birthday!

She was soooo cute...just like a calm little girl. She just slowly walked around and looked at everything with a sweet smile!

The "Rudolph" family

Our little tree! Dave and I got this tree the first Christmas we were married. We got it at Meijer for our one bedroom apt!....we are waiting until we get our "real" house to upgrade.

Kyle looked at the star and said "mommy, that looks just like the star that those guys saw in the sky to find baby Jesus"....later somehow the star was broken.....I am sure it has nothing to do with my little helper!...nothing a little tape couldn't fix!

Our basket of Christmas books...and of course the very special rocking chairs from PaPa and Grandma Carol. They have given each of the grandchildren a chair on their first Christmas

Elizabeth looked at the stockings, pointed and said, "shoes?, shoes?"

My helper.....and yes, he was in his undies the whole time!...didn't get dressed in actual clothes until about 12.....

Kyle did a great job at putting the fragile ornaments up high and spacing them out pretty well....now I know why mom used to rearrange the ornaments after we were done helping out!

Kyle's new pillow case....you color it! Of course it has sports balls on it!

This isn't the best picture...but it will do. I took the kids to visit Santa a few days ago....they were both very excited to see him from a distance...Elizabeth sat on his lap about 10 seconds before crying....Kyle actually sat for a while and talked to Santa.....Santa was very patient and told Kyle how much he enjoyed his cookies from last year. We didn't get a picture.....yet

Looking down on Santa from the 2nd floor of the mall