The beginning of the month we made a Christmas chain. The kids got to decorate paper, I cut them up and we made a chain. We wrote a scripture on the back and read it as we tore the paper off the chain. It was a lot of fun but next year I'm hoping to have an advent calendar made and attach my own scriptures to each thing. I found the scripture references for this chain on some website I don't remember now but the scriptures didn't really have anything to do with Christ's birth so it didn't make much sense. Anyway, here are the kids working.
I have a misc. box of craft supplies and found these crayon/marker things in it and they are AMAZING! It's like writing with lipstick but in a marker form. i LOVE them!
In the hall we have a linen closet. I keep some other items in there as well, including puzzles. As you can see, Julie has been exploring a lot more and found a very difficult puzzle and tried her best to put it together. I hope she's a problem solver and puzzle lover like her mom!
I'm not sure what this was from but it was TOO CUTE!
We also played outside a bit this month. There wasn't much snow but whenever there was a bit, Andrew and Julie would go outside and play. I had made them hot chocolate when they came in and this is what Andrew looked like...He wanted me to take his picture.
Julie and Mark love to cuddle. Julie is also a big thumb sucker! She was completely content as long as someone was sucking her thumb, even if it was her dad.
Mark played games with the kids, Andrew was in heaven!!!
We went to the park with some friends, let Andrew ride his bike a bit more, Julie got to go on the slide. I couldn't keep her off, I love that she's starting to venture off and be a little more daring!
Julie follows Andrew around ALL THE TIME! If he's doing something, she had to be right next to him doing the same thing...This time it was sitting on the coffee table...
And this time it was playing 'cars' with boxes we had gotten from Christmas presents...
This was Andrew copying Julie. She was playing 'BOO' with the vertical blinds and Andrew wanted to play. Can you find Julie or Andrew?
And this was one of my FAVORITES! Andrew got down on the carpet, started making 'carpet angels' (snow angels but indoors), Julie saw him and had to copy but she didn't just lie on the floor and start making her own angels, NOOOO. She had to lie down right in his armpit and try to make angels. He was getting so irritated and scooted away but she keep scooting right next to him. Anyway, SO CUTE!
On December 23rd, 2010 we gave Julie her first haircut. She is a year and 8 months at this time. Why do you ask did we cut it??? To get rid of her MULLET! As you can see, she has one of the worst girl mullets and I couldn't stand it anymore! I threw her in the tub and cut her hair. She still has thinning-looking hair in the front and can pull off a comb-over but at least she doesn't have that awful mullet. It turned out really cute and we get compliments all the time. I don't have an after picture of her hair dry but I'm sure you'll notice in other pictures that it looks SO MUCH BETTER!
This was one of our trees. I don't like doing a full 6' tall tree since we have kids that might try to open gifts, dogs that might try to pee on it, or even just the fact that we usually don't have room for one or the money for one. I like how we do it now actually. We have one small tree in our little cubby area that we fit presents around throughout the month and then we have another small tree (see below) that we let the kids decorate and it's just for fun. It's worked so far, why change it now right?
We had to hang our stockings this way this year since Julie was just the right height to pull them off the mantle. Maybe next year we can hang them from the mantle. Andrew did NOT like them here, he wanted them on the mantle for Santa.
We made and decorated cookies on Christmas Eve. Both kids got to do their own and a few of the 'best' would go on the plate for Santa. I made one myself and let the kids have at it on the rest. They really enjoyed it! Aren't they such great artists?
CHRISTMAS MORNING FINALLY CAME! We didn't get a TON but I think we had a great time and enjoyed everything.
One reason we didn't get too many gifts was because of the new bedroom furniture the kids got. Andrew's been asking for MONTHS for a bunk bed. I'm not comfortable with one and the room is too small for one so we compromised with this smaller bed from IKEA (yea IKEA!) We had a toddler bed in the garage for Julie and set it up. Both kids really seem to enjoy the room. We did get Julie her own dresser in pink instead of blue but we just set it up in January since we were missing the base.
Mark got this keyboard. I'm really excited for us to teach ourselves and just have some fun playing. I used to play on my Grandma's all the time as a kid.
Andrew gave Julie the game 'Elefun'. The commercials made it seem like the butterflies came out easy and it would keep them entertained. I should have known! The butterflies had a hard time coming out and there was a lot of waiting in-between so I was disappointed. The kids still seemed to enjoy it though.
I took Andrew out after Christmas to spend some Christmas cash. He got this really cool something from Star Wars that you can put some action figures in. Julie had to be the model because she wanted to play with it and Andrew wasn't letting her. Aren't siblings fun?
Julie got herself a puzzle a little more 'age appropriate' with some of her Christmas cash. I'm hoping to teach her farm animals and sounds while she puts it together so I'm really excited for this myself. I'm odd, I know it!
And lastly, this is Andrew's first bloody nose. He didn't get it the way you might think. He came out of his room one night after he went to bed like this. I'm thinking he was picking at his nose and with it being so dry, this is what happened but we'll never know for sure. Mark wanted to get a picture since it was so bad looking and it was his first so I'm sorry if it's a little disturbing.
Anyway, that was our December. Sorry for the lack of posting, I'll get a few more out soon so hopefully I'll be caught up before I go to bed tonight.
I have a misc. box of craft supplies and found these crayon/marker things in it and they are AMAZING! It's like writing with lipstick but in a marker form. i LOVE them!
In the hall we have a linen closet. I keep some other items in there as well, including puzzles. As you can see, Julie has been exploring a lot more and found a very difficult puzzle and tried her best to put it together. I hope she's a problem solver and puzzle lover like her mom!
I'm not sure what this was from but it was TOO CUTE!
We also played outside a bit this month. There wasn't much snow but whenever there was a bit, Andrew and Julie would go outside and play. I had made them hot chocolate when they came in and this is what Andrew looked like...He wanted me to take his picture.
Julie and Mark love to cuddle. Julie is also a big thumb sucker! She was completely content as long as someone was sucking her thumb, even if it was her dad.
Mark played games with the kids, Andrew was in heaven!!!
We went to the park with some friends, let Andrew ride his bike a bit more, Julie got to go on the slide. I couldn't keep her off, I love that she's starting to venture off and be a little more daring!
Julie follows Andrew around ALL THE TIME! If he's doing something, she had to be right next to him doing the same thing...This time it was sitting on the coffee table...
And this time it was playing 'cars' with boxes we had gotten from Christmas presents...
This was Andrew copying Julie. She was playing 'BOO' with the vertical blinds and Andrew wanted to play. Can you find Julie or Andrew?
And this was one of my FAVORITES! Andrew got down on the carpet, started making 'carpet angels' (snow angels but indoors), Julie saw him and had to copy but she didn't just lie on the floor and start making her own angels, NOOOO. She had to lie down right in his armpit and try to make angels. He was getting so irritated and scooted away but she keep scooting right next to him. Anyway, SO CUTE!On December 23rd, 2010 we gave Julie her first haircut. She is a year and 8 months at this time. Why do you ask did we cut it??? To get rid of her MULLET! As you can see, she has one of the worst girl mullets and I couldn't stand it anymore! I threw her in the tub and cut her hair. She still has thinning-looking hair in the front and can pull off a comb-over but at least she doesn't have that awful mullet. It turned out really cute and we get compliments all the time. I don't have an after picture of her hair dry but I'm sure you'll notice in other pictures that it looks SO MUCH BETTER!
This was one of our trees. I don't like doing a full 6' tall tree since we have kids that might try to open gifts, dogs that might try to pee on it, or even just the fact that we usually don't have room for one or the money for one. I like how we do it now actually. We have one small tree in our little cubby area that we fit presents around throughout the month and then we have another small tree (see below) that we let the kids decorate and it's just for fun. It's worked so far, why change it now right?
We had to hang our stockings this way this year since Julie was just the right height to pull them off the mantle. Maybe next year we can hang them from the mantle. Andrew did NOT like them here, he wanted them on the mantle for Santa.
We made and decorated cookies on Christmas Eve. Both kids got to do their own and a few of the 'best' would go on the plate for Santa. I made one myself and let the kids have at it on the rest. They really enjoyed it! Aren't they such great artists?
CHRISTMAS MORNING FINALLY CAME! We didn't get a TON but I think we had a great time and enjoyed everything.
One reason we didn't get too many gifts was because of the new bedroom furniture the kids got. Andrew's been asking for MONTHS for a bunk bed. I'm not comfortable with one and the room is too small for one so we compromised with this smaller bed from IKEA (yea IKEA!) We had a toddler bed in the garage for Julie and set it up. Both kids really seem to enjoy the room. We did get Julie her own dresser in pink instead of blue but we just set it up in January since we were missing the base.
Mark got this keyboard. I'm really excited for us to teach ourselves and just have some fun playing. I used to play on my Grandma's all the time as a kid.
Andrew gave Julie the game 'Elefun'. The commercials made it seem like the butterflies came out easy and it would keep them entertained. I should have known! The butterflies had a hard time coming out and there was a lot of waiting in-between so I was disappointed. The kids still seemed to enjoy it though.
I took Andrew out after Christmas to spend some Christmas cash. He got this really cool something from Star Wars that you can put some action figures in. Julie had to be the model because she wanted to play with it and Andrew wasn't letting her. Aren't siblings fun?
Julie got herself a puzzle a little more 'age appropriate' with some of her Christmas cash. I'm hoping to teach her farm animals and sounds while she puts it together so I'm really excited for this myself. I'm odd, I know it!
And lastly, this is Andrew's first bloody nose. He didn't get it the way you might think. He came out of his room one night after he went to bed like this. I'm thinking he was picking at his nose and with it being so dry, this is what happened but we'll never know for sure. Mark wanted to get a picture since it was so bad looking and it was his first so I'm sorry if it's a little disturbing.
Anyway, that was our December. Sorry for the lack of posting, I'll get a few more out soon so hopefully I'll be caught up before I go to bed tonight.
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