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Despite the look, Georgia Kate enjoyed her first time swinging in the backyard!  

Reid was THRILLED when he realized that this wrapping paper roll could be used as a baton (is that what it's called?) when marching around to Aggie band music.  He takes his marching very seriously.  Love him so much.  

One's bow can never be too big.  

Playing with pretend snow!  

Me: "Reid, where is your truck going?"

R: "He's going to Chick-fwa to get a diet coke!"

Silly girl...

This activity tested my control freak-ness like no other.  We were making cinnamon ornaments for our tree and instead of using the straw to poke holes for the ribbon, he decided to poke holes all over the ornaments!!  Eeeek!  I somehow managed to remain calm. ;)

We don't have very many pictures of both of us with Georgia Kate, so we snapped one the other night!

Love our girl!

Ho Ho Ho!

My friend Allison's mom started a fun tradition last year!  She hosts a breakfast with Santa at her house for all of our high school friends, our kids, and the grandparents!  Reid ran away from Santa at the breakfast, but we did get Georgia's first official Santa picture.

I LOVE this picture!

We went to Bass Pro Shop earlier this week for the sake of tradition.  Reid kept saying, "No see Santa" the whole way there.  I wasn't planning on being in the picture, but Santa said he only holds one child at a time and he picked the happy one. :) I guess they can get away with that since it's free.  

Bless his heart...

Ho Ho Ho!

I couldn't resist.

I think these elf yourself videos are hysterical!  If you have a toddler, you must make one of your family.  It will provide lots of entertainment, trust me! :) 

A few observations…

1.  When hair is not in the picture and we are all wearing the same clothes, I feel like Reid and Georgia look SO much alike.  It is also even more obvious how much they look like their daddy!  

2.  This video is made even more hilarious by Georgia Kate's unimpressed face.  

3.  Seeing a baby dance is highly entertaining!  

Enjoy!

Oh Christmas Tree

This was our first Christmas in the new house!  It was fun to decorate a new place.  Reid has been SO excited about all of the Christmas decorations.  Last year he was clueless, so it's been really fun.  The first couple of mornings after we decorated, he would say, "Christmas is downstairs!" as soon as he woke up.  We decorated the tree after Georgia went to sleep one night.  Chris and I enjoyed that special time with Reid.  After he put each ornament on he said, "That's a great spot!!" He was really proud. :) 

One tradition I started when Reid was born is getting an "Old World Christmas" ornament for him each year.  I try to make it something that represents him from that year.  The plan is to give the kids their collection when they get married one day.  Tear… ;(

Reid was sooo excited about his fire truck ornament this year!  

Georgia Kate got a baby shoe.  Reid got the same blue one for his first Christmas.  

I am also trying to make an ornament with each of them every year (at least while they are little).  I copied these from Pinterest of course! 

Georgia Kate's mistle toes

 Reid's snowmen handprint

I just love these pictures of him waiting to turn on the lights and seeing the finished tree.

When we were looking at houses and saw this house for the first time, I was so excited because it has the PERFECT spot for a Christmas tree!  That's important when finding a house! ;) I may tone down the mesh next year.  There was too much mesh and not enough space for ornaments!  I also want to add garland to the stairs maybe next year.  

Reid loves the snow village this year!

I smile every time I look at our mantle.  Seeing those two sweet stockings on the right reminds me every day how blessed we are!  

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Jammies!

We love Christmas jammies!

Our New Roomie + Milestones

We have a new roommate for the next 2 months!  Auntie Alli moved in and will live with us until she gets married in February!  Reid is THRILLED and the rest of us are now pretty much chopped liver compared to her.  If only I could convince her to quit her job and help with the kids during the day… ;)

We went to dinner to celebrate!  

Then we watched The Sound of Music with Carrie Underwood after the kids went to sleep!  

Georgia Kate was sleeping in the pack n play in our guest room, so in order to prepare for Auntie Alli's arrival, we finally made the move and put baby girl in her crib upstairs.  It wasn't that hard for me emotionally since she hadn't been in our room for a few weeks, but it was somewhat hard physically.  I fell down the stairs in the middle of the night on my way back from her room.  Fun times.

In other news, Reid had his very first dentist appointment on Thursday!  I had intentions of taking a lot of pictures to document the occasion, but juggling a baby plus him only resulted in this picture in the waiting room. It was a very pleasant experience overall!  The hygienists and dentist were SO sweet and wonderful.  We ended up not doing a cleaning because he was being very reserved and skeptical, but there were no tears!!!  They mostly just counted his teeth and gave him a goodie bag.  He was talking the whole way home about how much fun he had!  We will go back in 6 months and attempt a cleaning then.  

My boy is growing up!

Christmas Music

I am such a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas music.  Non-traditional Christmas songs that I didn't grow up singing and no one has ever heard of kind of get on my nerves.  However, there are three non-traditional songs that I absolutely love.

1.  You're Here by Francesca Battistelli
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDeBds5QfQ0

2.  A Baby Changes Everything by Faith Hill
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3wujkozv9E

3.  All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey
     This one doesn't need a link, obviously.  Who doesn't love this one?!

Also, this was going around Facebook a couple of days ago and it's amazing!!! Listen!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_MGWio-vc

And just a couple of pictures of my babies in some festive Christmas clothes yesterday...

Happy December!