I’ve been slacking on the blog lately. I realized yesterday that I missed most of December… sorry about that! Lots of stories and lots of pictures to share…
… so to come…
… trip to South Carolina with my besties…
… Christmas recap, both from WI and home…
… Grand Lake / Grandby pictures…
… and others.
Lots of love to you all! I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year! Here’s to 2013!
Erin
Anna was seven months old yesterday – wow!
Anna is increasingly better at sitting up (still not on her own)… still only two teeth and drooling like crazy… loves to play with toys… enjoys eating puffs and cheerios… has chosen this week to be difficult in allowing herself to be dressed (she loves to kick and joke around while trying to dress her)… smiley, laughs a lot… happier than she is sad… still gets overwhelmed by her sisters but enjoys and tolerates them more and more… loves her mama… loves her dada… and will be headed on her first plane trip (out of the womb) this week!
Lots of fun stuff happens on the mornings I get to sleep in. (Thank you, Adam, for that blissful three hours this morning!)
This morning Adam captured the following stories from Raven and Julia:
Raven’s story on 12-15-12
Once upon a time there was a little drummer boy and he was sick.
He went up to the park. He fly fly fly up to the sky. He flied to the store. He buyed some Dora fruit snacks. He eat them all gone.
the end.
Julia’s story on 12-15-12
Once upon a time there was a princess in a castle. And then she saw a prince and she went to sleep and the she hear the witch and then a prince kiss her and then the princess waked up and then she got married. The end.
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I would say 5 or 6 times a week, Raven asks for Dora Fruit Snacks. I promised them to her for Christmas. I think we’ll get them as a treat for our plane trip.
And Julia is obsessed with Snow White… if you can’t tell. 
We enjoyed driving around and looking for neat places to take Julia’s 5 year pictures this year. We settled on a few places:
It was colder out than we were expecting, so we snapped and dashed, but we were happy with what we got. And this time little Anna joined in the fun too!
Hard to believe we have a five year old already…! Julia celebrated her birthday the Saturday after Thanksgiving – thanks to two leap years since her birth, it was the same day of the week as the day she was born, so Mommy experienced quite a bit of nostalgia.
The birthday girl in the morning not long after she woke up:
We decorated the tree together – what fun! Mommy let go of the Type A boiling up in her core and let the girls put approximately 20 ornaments in a 10 inch by 10 inch area. Ha! The girls had fun as this is the first year I really let them have at the tree. Talk about dripping with ornaments.
We took the girls down the road to take Julia’s 5 year pictures – those will come in a later post.
After lunch, we did Julia’s cake and presents. Now, I have to admit, the cake looked and tasted (not as) terrible, and I don’t know that I’ll attempt another one from scratch for a while. Ha! But, Julia loved blowing out candles and opening presents.
After presents and cake, I took Julia to see “Brave” – we had gone to see it when my mom was here after Anna was born, and it was playing again at the Elvis Theater. Julia enjoyed it, but after 45 minutes, she asked to please go home so she could play with her sisters. Awwww!
I have SO many blog posts to write, so many pictures to dig through, and little to no time. We took Julia’s 5 year pictures two weeks ago… haven’t even taken the Christmas photo picture to send out to folks… and we went to Grand Lake over a month ago… I’ll get there.
Also… last weekend I spent time with my dear friends Angela and Chrissy in Charleston, SC. Umm… amazing. LOVED IT! Then I ran across this photo on Facebook:
Between my weekend in Charleston and the influence of my dear Alabama friend Laura, I’ve become a lover of all things smocked. I can’t get enough of it! I also cannot afford it. HA!
Hopefully will find time this weekend to post a plethora of pictures… until then, it’s back to work!
erin
