Christmas pictures 2009

There doesn't get much better than Christmas with a 4 and 5 year old....their innocent thoughts on Jesus's birth, waking up extra early (sometimes before 6 for Bo) to run downstairs and see what tiny toy is in the advent calendar each day, the daily threats of "Santa is watching", making cookies, teaching them about doing something good for others during this season, visiting Santa, school Christmas parties and programs.......and so on. We certainly had a busy season, but somehow it didn't seem too busy to enjoy each other and try to keep the focus on the special season as Christians. It also made it a little special that we got to open some presents for baby Kate too! One of my favorite stories is a Bo one.....Rob had done a lot of threatening of "If the elf tells Santa you were bad, he will just take one of those Ben Ten toys out of your stack and give it to another little boy." Christmas morning, after he had had a chance to play a while, he said, "Well Santa brought me some good toys but not too many. You know I didn't get that little Ben Ten guy, then one in the white suit" I said, "Well, Bo, I never heard you tell Santa you wanted that and you didn't put it in the letter." He said, "I think I know what happened. One of those times I was bad, I think he must have just put that one back and that's why I didn't get it!" Lane spent some time Christmas morning naming the American Girl twins and she came up with "Emma" and "Zach" and they even went to the mall with us in their stroller after Christmas! Here is a mass of pictures for our scrapbook! Christmas Morning

Look what Santa brought Lane!

Look what Santa brought Bo!

Lane and Ms. Lesile....I am sooo thankful for her!

Lane's kindergarten class

Daddy even dropped by the party!

Nothing like, a chocolate donut, a glazed donut, and donut holes for breakfast.....and a little fruit!

Angels in the church Christmas program

Dance Christmas routine

She doesn't make too stout of a bottom pyramid!

At Bo's school program

Bo's school program...he is on the top row on the left...I really should post the video of this one...he's a charachter! I think I got more waves than any other parent in the audience!

Lane in Ellie's church program....this one took about 2 months of long hard practicing...I was really proud of her!

End result of our Christmas cookies...the best yet, I have to say! And I attribute it to the store bought icing already in the squeeze tubes.

Granny's grandkids and great-grandkids

momma's brothers and sisters (with spouses)

Lane and new cousin, Sloane, with the American girl bathtub that Aunt Mary Jo gave her (she has always given the best gifts, wrapped in the prettiest paper).

Hat and coat that Ellie gave Lane

Batman house that Ellie and Boo gave Bo....he loves this thing!

Bo is a proud cousin of a baby boy...he's ready for him to be big enough to play!

Cousins

That is one pretty girl in the middle of those twins!

Ellie gave the baby this blanket, burp cloth, bib, and diaper.....hmmm...think she wants to nail that name in stone????? It is so beautiful (thanks to some last minute work at the Freckled Frog!

Pops is getting Bo ready with a new goal....look at those ribs!

Uncle Dave gave Bo this transformer suit!

Lane and Gigi and her new camera....

These are pictures of the crazy kazoo game we played at Gigi's on Christmas Eve.....I was the director and everyone played their "horn' when I pointed to them (their 'crowns" had numbers on them)....pretty funny....considering I was directing a band composed of 4 year olds to 85 year olds!!

Lane and Daddy working with her pottery wheel!

Lil A and big A came to visit before Christmas!

The annual "Junk Food Supper" at Gigi's

Boy clothes for sale!

I have cleaned out the attic to get all the baby clothes out and sort through pink and blue....I had decided to sell Bo's clothes on e-bay, but thought I'd first see if anyone local was interested! I had already given away the "junk" type stuff, and I am giving some to my nephew, but there is still a lot left, I have 3 large rubbermaid contaiers full (mostly Gap, Old Navy, Target and Polo (with a few Kelly's kids, Chez Ami, and Orient Express John Johns). Size newborn to about 2 or 3T. I have put prices on them, and they are $1 to $10. Call me if you want to come by and see if you want anything or come get them to go through! I will probably keep them for one or two weeks then put them on Craigslist and Ebay!

Handsome little guy

I just loved this picture of my "baby boy" as I like to call him...or now he likes to say he is my "special" boy (since there will be 2 girls around now!)

Christi (Coats) Oswalt took this at school of him and emailed it to me. She is taking pictures professionally now and she gave me her website

http://www.cristioswaltphotography.com/

I do have tons of Christmas pictures to post to finish my 2009 scrapbook, so I should be catching up soon....hopefully I will have time if we get "snowed in"!

These boys are outnumbered!

yep, there will be a girl to add to the estrogen side at our house in the spring! We got news of a healthy baby girl at our ultrasound today. Of course Lane is super excited, but she was certain it was a girl anyway, so the ultrasound tech really wasn't telling her anything she didn't already know....the poor child has dreamed of a baby sister for a long time...secretly I think God gave us a girl just for her...because the rest of us didn't care too much! Bo initially was initially a little sad and then we went to Target and he picked out tons of pink for her...so he's cool with it!



Here are some ultrasound pictures from 18 weeks...the first one is sideways, but it shows "girl"

Vote: Boy or Girl!

Give us a comment and let us know if you think our baby is a boy a girl! We go for our big ultrasound tomorrow...the kids have been counting the days down like Christmas! We say it is 1 day till we find out if we get a boy or girl, 11 days till cousins R and J come to see us, and 18 days till Jesus's birthday!! Anyway, please pray that we get great news of a healthy baby boy or girl tomorrow......and we will have fun reading our poll to the kids on the way to the Doctor!! Thanks and happy voting...by the way, Rob says it is a girl and I say it is a boy!

1st annual Golf Cart parade

Chad had his first (what we hope will be annual) golf cart parade at the Links. He always looks forward to riding in the Covington Christmas parade and usually starts talking about it in July! Momma decided to try something new for him.....There were 15 golf carts lined up at mom and dad's to start the parade...most of which were decorated in lights, trees, snowmen.....we paraded around the links and there were many standing out in their yards or peeking out there windows to watch..... and then had hot chocolate and cookies for the participants inside. Chad was one proud fella! Uncle Dolph said "only Chad could bring out this many folks on a night as cold as this to ride golf carts!" (there aren't many outside pics because I didn't have my camera with me outside)