First off, loved everyone's comments from my last post about decorating. I am going to tackle little projects and focus on those small things. We also set up an automatic $20 deposit each paycheck to go into a furniture account, so by 2020 hopefully I will own some furniture!
I've been in the slump of all slumps and am so sick of feeling blah. Really. It's not fair sometimes. That's why I've decided I'm never going to be a great blogger because I kinda feel like if you can't say anything nice, you shouldn't say anything at all...so that leaves me speechless. I KNOW I'm blessed, so it's not that at all.
So on to the kiddos. Dan bought the baby a cute BYU cheerleader outfit for Christmas, so I have been wanting to take a picture of her in it before she outgrew it. You know, it is really hard to do these planned things...it shouldn't be, but it is. The sun hasn't shined for days/weeks. Finally, Sunday was beautiful, but we went to church, then Dan had to home teach and his companion was sick, so he took the boys, and Ava was grumpy...and by the time she woke up it was dark. I snapped 2 pictures of her before I put her down for a nap and sadly, that's all I ended up with- but she is cute. I still hope to take a picture of all 3 of them together.
As of 11 months she is still cruising around. She buckles her knees the minute she is standing on her own. She never wants to eat the same thing twice, which is rather inconvenient. No more baby food. I have to be really creative in thinking of new things for her, and it doesn't help that she is reacting to something but I can never figure out what because she won't just eat one food item for a week like they recommend. She is happy and only really cries when she has needs. She signs milk, eat and binky consistently now. She calls da-da when Dan walks in the room. She has 11 teeth (teething makes her grumpy!!) I can't believe next month she will turn ONE!
We are actually going to Legoland in 10 days. R can hardly contain his excitement. He REALLY loves legos! I can't wait to enjoy San Diego with the kids (and almost all of Dan's family) and am looking forward to warmer weather!
Oh the excitement of Christmas! J woke up super early, and we told him he had to wait awhile. At 7 we called Grandma and Grandpa to come over and woke R up.First they had to get Jesus out of the advent calendar.
And put him in the nativity.
J's reaction when he came downstairs was priceless. I think the shock that Santa did indeed come overtook him. He gave us this look.
Then promptly fell down on the ground and laid there for a few seconds before he could get up and even look at his presents. We won't mention the fact that most of the excitement came from the fact that he thought he got a drumset. It was not a drumset, but a ramp for his bike. It was fun to share the excitement with the grandparents.
After the boy's opened most of their presents we woke the baby up and brought her down. She wasn't sure what was going on, but she was happy with all the attention.
What a fun morning!!
