Ugly Christmas Sweater Party

Our neighbors had an Ugly Christmas Sweater party this weekend that we were able to attend.  It was nice to have some adult conversation for a bit with no kids!  We did our best with the sweaters.  We found Jonathan's sweater at Goodwill but wanted to ugly it up some more so we added the tree and extras to it.  If only I would have had time to add some lights to it that really lit up, it would have been so much uglier :)

Wrapping Paper is YUMMY!

At least that's what Ryan thought when he got a hold of some....

Pre-K Christmas Performance

I can't believe it has already come time for school to break for the Christmas holiday, but somehow it has!  Today was Katelynn's last day of preschool until the New Year.  They ended it with a fun Christmas Potluck and put on a performance for all the parents.  They sang several Christmas songs and even played a variety of instruments.  Katelynn played the triangles for two songs!

And in case you want a taste of the performance, here's a quick 2-minute snip of it.  They didn't play instruments the entire time, but I only taped a short bit and they happened to be playing them the entire time I taped.

Up, Up, and Moving!!

Wow.  I feel like Ryan hit 5 months old and just took off on the milestones.  Every day I feel like he changes!  Off the top of my head, he has learned to sit up, play actively with toys, and now he is semi-mobile!  We are so very, very close to crawling!  In the last 48 hours, he has made improvements literally every few hours it seems!  When he went to bed tonight, he was officially getting on all fours and moving one knee forward.  He would push off with that one knee and kept rolling over instead of going forward, but he didn't get upset.  He just kept rolling back to his belly and going again!  For the most part, he is moving backwards rather than forward, but he is moving!!  Earlier today he started at his playmat and made his way to our Christmas tree without any help from anyone!

And just because Mommy couldn't get enough of his sweet face, I kept on snapping pictures of my BIG, BIG boy as he played and continued to move around!

While I should be in tears that my baby is getting big so quickly (and blowing his big brother and sister away on the milestone markers), but I am actually hoping he full-fledge crawls before the first of the year.  Jonathan leaves for France for several weeks January 2nd, and he is already upset that he might miss such a huge milestone.  So, for the sake of my husband, please baby boy start crawling before daddy leaves!

More Santa Babies!

They may not be babies, but they will always be MY babies so I can call them Santa Babies if I want to :)

Santa Baby

With two weeks still left before Christmas, it's probably safe to say you'll see plenty more "Santa" pictures of Ryan since it is his first Christmas.  Here's my first favorite from the little photo shoot I put him through tonight!

Almost Perfect Picture of Three

I keep trying to get that perfect, framable picture of my three cuties, but it is HARD!  We went out to eat after visiting Santa today and since they were all dressed up, I decided to give it a try and snap some pictures.  They were looking at everyone except me and the camera for most pictures like this one...

 .. but finally I at least got them all to look.  If only I could have gotten all smiles and thought to have Katelynn spit out her gum, it would have been perfect (oh and the wind wasn't blowing her hair!).  But, I think this might be the best picture yet that I have of them so I'll take it!  I love how blue Ryan's eyes look in the photo to!