Be still my heart!!

My sweet little baby girl is sick, miserably congested and adorably pathetic. She is so snuggly and still that I love soaking up the depth of the snuggles and grateful smiles but she feels so bad that it just breaks my heart.

I've been working with her since the day she was born on what I hoped would be her first word. My little man said ball, dada and nana before he ever said mama but last night in all her glorious snuggles she looked deep into my eyes, let out a sigh and said so contently, "Ma Ma." I screamed and then I cried. For half an hour I would say "Mama?" and she would smile back and say "Ma Ma" in a very matter-of-fact way. My mom says that when I left the house last night to go to my small group gathering she kept saying it almost like she was asking for me - dad is very jealous - HA!

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year!

Conversation from the Christmas break...

LM: Pop, where is history?
Pop: Huh? What do you mean?
LM: Rudolph went down in history. Where is history?
Pop: Ask Nana.

Momma's Girl

She is definitely her momma's girl...bald and toothless, poor thing.

Happy Birthday Little Man

Happy Birthday my little man.

Christmas Time Is Here......

I am so excited for Christmas this year because of one very sweet little boy who is excited about Christmas. Sunday our church had a little Christmas pageant and my little donkey technically *participated* but not willingly. I wish I could have captured the look he gave me when I whispered loudly to him to sing. If looks could kill, I would be dead, ha.


Sunday afternoon we built a gingerbread train from a kit. My sister also used a kit to build her gingerbread house and her's looked like something out of Martha Stewart's magazine while ours looked like a train wreck. At least we had fun!

Vacation!!

I am almost on vacation! Although I still have two half days left at work I have been in vacation mode since Friday. My house has been deep cleaned, shopping is done, presents are wrapped, hard drives are cleaned off and backed up and I have a list of really fun things for our family to do for the next 2 weeks. TWO WEEKS - woohoo! The festivities start tomorrow and I'll share the details (with photos) later on this week.

In the meantime I thought I would share with you a little bit of Little Man's excitement about the BIG man in the red suit...

Writing his letter (or in his case coloring the letter mommy wrote for him)

Delivering the letter :)

Finally, my little gingerbread girl :)I'll be better about keeping this updated starting THIS week with Little Man's Christmas show, his Birthday party, Christmas and some fun family activities. Come back soon! Don't give up on us now!

For Mr. Christopher