little chef

my son loves to cook. whenever we start to make a meal he pulls out his step stool to help. it is both adorable and somewhat annoying at the same time. his specialty is eggs and pancakes. i do love that he is interested in cooking. i watch cooking shows everyday and it is fun to see him point out the different ingredients the chef is working with. he has a fascination with eggs, oranges, blueberries and carrots. he is only 2 but so far he is a great eater. he always picks out the fruits and veggies to snack on. i should go on his diet! it will be interesting to see if his sister is also a good eater. how nice would that be.

lets go

baby is bundled and all ready for a drive.

2 months

my baby is 2 months old now. yikes. how did this happen? she is so big. i feel like i am not taking enough photos of her. miles and i took her to her 2 month appointment. the little miss is 9 lbs 14 oz. and 22.5 inches long. wow. she is in the 10 percent range for weight and 50 percent for height. she has gained 3 pounds and 3 inches in two months. mason was very good at the doctors. he just played with the toys while we had to wait. he was very excited by the spider-man puzzle. and kept saying spider. which sounds like spiyer. so cute. dahlia had to get 3 shots. she was very upset and cried. i was good and did not cry.

announcement

we finally sent out the birth announcements yesterday. yay. it took forever to get them done. i think they are very cute. i feel so behind because of the holidays. we should have mailed these a long time ago. oh well. we took the picture on january 2nd. we had a little photo shoot in her bedroom. that is the outfit we took her home from the hospital in. she is getting so big.

resoultions

i have been wanting to write down my resolutions from the new year. perhaps it will motivate me to see them in writing. 

1. lose 10 pounds of baby weight. - to be fair it is not really baby weight. only 5 pounds is baby weight. the other 5  i gained before i got pregnant. i am currently 130. i would love to get down to 115. but i will take 120.

2. start blog about kids. - this is a work in progress. i really want a place to record their development. only interesting to me i suppose. oh well.

3. read more books.

4. fill out kid's baby books. - i actually worked on this the other day. not bad. i just find it a bit dull to do.

5. get rid of most of my cooking magazines. ugh. i have a huge pile i need to trash. it is so hard because they are filled with great recipes. 

well that doesn't seem to hard. i should have this done in a month. i hope. 

merry christmas

merry christmas everybody. i love christmas. i was so excited last night. i could barely sleep. we woke up early and went to my mom and dad's house. i felt a bit bad about leaving miles' mom on christmas. she had to drive home and visit with grandma charlotte.

it was so fun at mom's. we had champagne with breakfast and opened presents. oh my gosh. there were so many presents. it was overwhelming. mason seemed content to just play with the stuff in his stocking. his cousin zena tore through her presents at lightning speed.

dahlia's first christmas and she slept through most of it. she was so cute. everybody loved her. it was so fun to get to show her off.

my sisters jen, christina and i went to visit our friend rebecca and her family. we go every year. their house is always so beautiful and perfect.

we were back at my mom's house for dinner and then miles, ray and i went to visit my friend carla and mark at her family's house. i love to visit everyone on christmas. it makes the day so festive.

i was disappointed to find my parents had already gone to bed when we got home. it was only 9:30. i can't believe christmas was already over and it was time to go home. i still had lots of energy. i wanted to hang out.

i think next year we might host christmas at our house. i think my mom is getting tired of hosting. we would have to give up our mini tradition of visiting everyone, but it would be nice to stay put and relax a little.

christmas eve

merry christmas. i can't believe it is already christmas eve. today was just crazy busy. we usually go to miles' grandma's house for christmas eve to visit with his mom and grandma. this year miles' mom came to our house. we didn't know she was coming until two days ago. needless to say i was not ready. i was running around like a crazy woman this morning getting the house clean and the groceries bought. miles took the kids with him to visit his aunt, and drop off the christmas gifts. i was sad to miss it. there is no way we would have been ready though. i wish i would have had time to plan something more special. i love to host parties and would have liked to do something really nice for christmas eve. this was just such short notice that i had to keep it simple.

my mother in law showed up around four o'clock. we had a nice easy dinner. we got a store bought pie that i thought tasted terrible. it just killed me to not have a homemade dessert. we opened gifts after dinner. mason loved this silly toy car that has a pig driving it. so funny. miles and i have to finish wrapping some gifts for tomorrow. i miss going to the midnight service at church. the candlelight service was always my favorite. maybe we can find a church near us for next year.

anyway, christmas is here and i am so excited. my baby girl's first christmas. i hope everyone has a loving day.