Christmas Eve

For some reason I don't have very many pictures of our Christmas Eve celebration with The Allans.  Oh wait I know why,  I'm trying to keep track of 3 little babies.  I don't always have my camera as handy as I like lately.  We had a wonderful celebration and really enjoyed hosting the party this year.  Cousin Lauren is so great with all the kids.  She helped all the little ones open presents and she is always helping entertain the kids.

These are the typical pictures I get of Chloe lately.  I sit her up to take a super cute picture of her and by the time I sit back to snap it, she is off and running.  I have a lot of shots of the top of her head.

Here are the cookies sprinkles Zackary left for Santa.  I promise there was a few cookies under the mound of sprinkles.

8 Months

I can't seem to get enough of dressing my little girl up.  She is spending most of her day bear crawling around the house looking for little tiny objects to put in her mouth or pulling up to stand at everything.  I spend a good part of my day scanning the floor for little toys or pieces of paper or whatever is appropriate for an 8 month old to put in her mouth.  And somehow I can manage to miss something and find it in her mouth.  How cute is she?  And this outfit, man I love it!

Christmas Performance

The boys had their preschool Christmas performance at Tumbleweed this year.  It was so cute.  They sang their Christmas songs with the Rockin' Ms. Vicki and we celebrated after with tons of sweets.  I love hearing these little guys sing Christmas songs all day.

Miss Chloe and her super special Opa.

New Discovery

I know I have said this before.  Discovering the dog food and making a huge mess is a developmental milestone, right?  I had to get this on camera and let her play in the food and make a mess, maybe she won't care too much about it if I let her have a little fun with it.  I love how Otis just sat and watched her destroy his food and water dishes.  Needless to say, she got a new outfit after and I got to clean up a big mess of soppy, wet, mushy, smelly dog food.

Zackary's 5

Zackary's 5...I can't believe it.  I tell you what, 5 is so fun.  We are loving this age and are loving who this little boy is turning into.  He is the most kind little boy, he has a great sense of humor, he is a great listener (sometimes its a little difficult when he is tired), he is smart and extremely agile.  I'm pretty sure he asks about 20,000 questions a day and I know it is because he is soaking up everything right now and is super interested in pretty much everything.  Sometimes he really can stump me on questions and I'm not a fan of the answer "because" but sometimes it just comes out.  Zackary weighs 48 pounds and is 46 inches tall.  Running about 90th percentile for both weight and height.    

Happy Birthday Zackary!  We love you!

Bear Crawl

Miss Chloe is bear crawling everywhere.  I absolutely love it.  Now she is pretty much doing it all the time and is quite fast too.  

She is venturing all over the house, and loves playing in the tv console just like her brothers.  

First letters

I absolutely love this stage.  I love to see Zackary learning and enjoying preschool.  I love how he writes his name.  I had to take some pictures.  I really need to figure out how to better save some of the artwork. Seeing him write just makes me smile.  I love how he can't always fit all his letters on one line so he either chooses to go down with them or up.  

Sugar Coma

I was making cupcakes for my work Christmas party and obviously you can see that someone was helping me in the kitchen.  I did let him lick the spoons after I was done with them.  I'm pretty sure he was getting more than I was aware of just by the looks of these pictures.  We were watching a movie (afternoon quiet time) and he was sitting on the coffee table and the next thing we knew he was passed out on the floor.

And it begins...

I guess the boys have figured out Chloe is getting a little more sturdy and trying to play with her a little rougher.  I think Zackary sees Aaron and I playing with Chloe and has started rolling around with her.  He is very gentle and does really well with her.  And as you can see, she loves every second of it.  Those boys can always make her laugh.  Oh and other big news today.  My little Chloe started crawling today, she is officially moving forward now and is discovering all the toys around.  Time for the big clean up!

Of course there has to be a dog pile. 

Little Helper

I'm not sure what it is about feeding babies, but I can tell you this... Everyone loves to, even 3 years olds.    Lane and Zackary typically fight over who gets to feed Chloe.  It really is cute, but sometimes causes a little too much drama around here.  Usually because they haven't ate yet and can't seem to sit still to feed themselves.  I try to let them take turns and actually sometimes I let one of them to really help me out.  She doesn't care and as long as there is food she will take it.  They both do a good job, it just creates a little more of a mess, remember this mess?  I do love that they are so interested in her and take such good care of her.  She has 2 great older brothers to look after her.  Lucky girl! 

Birthday Party

We celebrated Zackary's 5th birthday and Lane's 3rd birthday at Makutu's Island this year.  And I tell you what.  IT WAS EXCELLENT!  This might be one of the best places for a party.  The kids have a blast, they provide all the food, drinks, cake, planning, cleaning, organizing, and fun.  They even serve the kids and organize the present opening and recording of gifts.  Seriously, this was so easy and enjoyable for everyone.  

We got to invite all their friends and not be crowded and the best part was they help load the car with all the loot and we went home.  No clean up might be the best part (well except for the actual celebration).  Happy Birthday to my sweet little boys.  Thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate. 

I love that Lane is sitting cirss cross applesauce waiting so patiently for his turn to open a present.

Biker

I had to do a quick update for anyone following this.  I mentioned a couple of days ago how the boys got new bikes for their Birthday/Christmas presents from their grandparents.  Well here you have it.  Zackary is full blown riding his big boy bike without training wheels.  No joke this kid picked it up in 4 days.  All we do is help him get started for about a second and he's off.  I'm am so proud of him.  I knew he could do it.  

Thanksgiving 2011

Well, we hosted our first Thanksgiving at our house this year.  And was it sure fun!  I love hosting parties, activities and such.  I love to open up our house to everyone, I always have.  So, since Aaron is such an awesome cook, he got to do the cooking and I got to be in charge of drinks, decorating, and assisting.  It worked out perfect.  Both sides of the family were here to celebrate, I am so thankful that our family can all be together at once.  It makes our lives so much easier.  Here are some pictures from or celebration.

We kept the kids busy with lots of activities.

Here is Aaron's massive turkey he cooked.  Pops was showing him how to carve it up.  This might have been one of the best turkey's I have ever had.

Chloe loving up on Opa.  She loves to be held and just stroke his beard.  It's so funny.

The table turned out beautiful.  I was very proud of our great first Thanksgiving party.