December 2015

A look back on our December.   

 

Joshua loves to sit by the heater vent in the morning and will sometimes eat his breakfast by it.   

Kayla loved playing with the manger scene.  I love the audience that Baby Jesus has.  

 

They had a blast making "bow" soup.  They would pretend they had their own cooking show. 

Feeding Bear some "bow" soup.   

Levi enjoyed it too.  

Joshua stayed busy making rockets out of empty TP rolls. 

My boy is such a genius.  He tied this rocking house to a ride on car.  Every time he tried pulling the horse with the car the string broke.  So I discovered him upstairs taping empty TP rolls to the bottom of the horse.  When I asked what he was doing he told me he thought it would glide better when pulled by the car if it had wheels.  I love his ideas. 

We hosted our 1st annual cookie exchange and it was a lot of fun!

 

Joshua still enjoys tent building.  He steaks the black tarp (trash bag) down with golf tees.   

The higher the better for this little guy.  The higher I pushed him the harder he belly laughed.  No fear!

 

Story time. 

He just crawls around story time making friends. 

 

Happy Birthday Jesus party!

 

Levi's new thing is to make a high pitched noise and shoot his hand straight up in the air as a way of saying hi.  He does this when he hears Daddy walking in the door before he even sees him.  He also does this in the morning as we are walking to Kayla's room.   

 

Watching one of their favorite shows about David and Goliath. Kayla is excited, can ya tell?!

He got cold so he doubled layered his pj's. 

 

The ultimate fort with air mattresses. 
 

When we have a long stretch of frigid weather we have to get creative on how to burn energy.  One of their favorite things to play is the mattress game.  I couldn't believe how Levi got right in there with them and played like he was 3 years old.  He was climbing up and rolling down and just having a blast.  Apparently the mattress game makes them all hot ;)

 

Levi learned how to stand unassisted this month.  He gets so proud of himself and starts clapping mid squat.

This sweet boy signs more, all done, and please.  He also plays peek-a-boo, gives kisses, and loves to give hugs.  It warms my heart when he randomly crawls up to J or K and hugs them. 

 

Levi took off his hat and when I told him to put it back on his head he carefully sat it on his head, held his arms out very stiff like and wouldn't move so the hat wouldn't fall off.  Goofball!

 

He is such a climber!

This boy is into everything and is fast!  He discovered how to take the vents off.  I have even found a picture down one vent.  He also wiggled an outlet over off of the wall.  He loves the stairs and will climb half way up any chance he gets, waits for me to come get him, and then beelines it up the rest of the way laughing when I go to get him. 

 

The Blancs came to visit for Christmas and stayed several days with us.  The cousins all has so much fun together.  They loved waking up at the same time and would always give each other a hug first thing in the morning. 

 

Omah and Papa's Christmas train is always a favorite.

 

Aunt Anna Changing Levi's diaper and Mama Kayla (as she makes us call her) changing her baby's diaper.

 

full house =full heart

   

 

All the girls went out for coffee and as you can tell from the look on her face Kayla was tickeld.   

 

Cousins sledding. 

 

Perhaps the best thing about December was that Daddy had close to 3 weeks off from work!  His work gives their employees a big chunk of time of for Christmas and he usually takes a few vacation days up against that and it is soooo nice.  It is always so hard when he has to go back to work after the 1st of the year.  As Kayla said the day he had to go back to work, "When Daddy goes to work I be sad.  When Daddy comes home I be happy."