December

I've become one of those....poor full time child number 2. I am (by far) slacking in keeping up with everything as well as I did with Baylee. The blog is definitely one of these items that seems to be at the bottom of the to do list.

The first part of December was spent finishing Christmas gifts, preparing for MOPS and teen MOPS Christmas parties, and trying to get in the Christmas spirit. Somewhere in the mix we had time to hang out with friends still and go to lunch with Amber since she's not in school right now. Tanner has also mastered scooting the length of his crib and he started holding his big noggin up way better. He still HATES the camera and it's difficult to get him smiling

but dang it I sure am going to keep trying. Baylee is still the proud big sis and loves to entertain her lil T from dancing for him to singing and sneaking in squeezes. She constantly reminds us that he loves her and she loves him for it.

We had a play date with just a few friends on Dec 23 where we made and decorated cookies for Santa, had lunch and a little bit of adult conversation in between tending to the kiddos. We had a blast, though it was decided another cookie decorating play date is needed but minus the kids or at least with the kids preoccupied by dads. We still are children at heart sometimes too.

Christmas was a blast. Tanner slept in and missed the first half of the festivities. Baylee was hilarious. She ran in and went straight to Tanner's gifts and completely missed her own. I had to lovingly point them out to her and then she got super excited. She helped open everyone else's as well, so as we approached the last few gifts, she was done. She just couldn't resist her toys any longer. She got some great things including her requested dress and new book. In addition she got ZhuZhu pets(thanks MaaMaa) and a new big girl fishing pole from Santa. She got clothes and dresses, toys and books(thanks grandparents, aunts and uncles). It was a fun day for all of us. We had a white Christmas which unfortunately meant Cody had to go plow snow. He did get to take his little sidekick with him though.

The day after Christmas we went out to enjoy the snow more. We had a great time throwing snowballs for Odin. He's quite the jumper (thus the missing his head in one of the pictures). We also buried dad, sledded a little, had a snowball fight and buried Baylee up to her knees. Thanks goes to the munchkin for sleeping so I could go have some fun too.

New Years Eve was spent with Dan, Hannah, and Miss Izzy, of course we did not make it to midnight. I'm only 28 and apparently that's history for us already (ha). But we sure had a fun evening hanging out. Happy New Year!