Santa!!

Tim and I figured that we finally needed to take the kids to see Santa. As much as I was looking forward to Azzi seeing Santa for the first time, I was in as much dread to see what Bly would do. In the past, he has not done well with any mythical creatures so I had little expectations to any events occurring this holiday season. We went to see old St. Nick at the Notre Dame Bookstore (which ended up being fabulous to any parents out there). To my surprise both kids sat on the old man's lap at the same time and we got some great pictures. Bly was easily bribed with a candy cane from the man in red and Azley just kept starring at him. She had this look of who are you and why did my mom so readily hand me over to you crazy man. At least we have some great pictures to prove our success. 

One with Azley looking at the camera..

..and one with Bly.

You didn't think we would be lucky enough to get both looking now did you?

Our naps these days

As you can see from the pictures, Bly does a lot of things during his nap time other than sleeping. I thought that I had put these stickers up but I guess I was wrong.

Starting her young

Azzi has taken an interest in her new purse. This could be a problem when she gets older.

Food!

Azzi started on cereal recently and loves it although mighty messy! I need to look into bibs with sleeves for this child.

  

First Snow of the Year!

This morning was the first snow to actually cover some of the ground. I dressed Bly up in his snow gear and headed outside for a little play time this morning. He was so excited about playing in the snow but not so much about getting dressed to go out there. We made it and have the pictures to prove it.

Papa will need to put snow tires on the mower along with his tractor!

This is Rock's first time playing out in the snow ever. He loved to run but also thought it was a treat to eat it!

Azzi took a nap inside but was happier for it when she woke up. Here she is sporting her new Christmas shirt and mugging for the camera.

Azzi's New Pictures

We had some pictures taken of our baby girl the other day. Here are a few of my favorites.

I also had a funny moment with my son this morning to share. He was eating his breakfast and wanted more milk. Well, momma's not been feeling well so we were out. I asked him if he wanted some orange juice instead which he has had before plenty of times. He thought about it for a minute then says "Momma, I want banana juice". While this makes perfect sense because his favorite fruit is bananas, I had to try and explain that we didn't have any banana juice in the house. Kids are just too cute sometimes.