Santa

This is the fun time of year as a parent because you get to watch the excitement in your kids eyes as they await Santa to show up at their house. Kaylie is really into Santa and Christmas this year. I was not fully prepared the other night when I read, The Night Before Christmas," to her and she started looking at the pictures and asking me how Santa carries all the toys down the chimney and how he climbs back up, how the reindeer fly, etc. I need to get in full parent mode and begin coming up with wise answers when given such hard questions as those. ha! Jeremy's work had a kids Christmas party on Tues. night. Kaylie was all excited sit on Santa's lap and tell him just what she wanted, and she told me she would smile so I could take her picture. Well as with most kids that sounds great until you get to the big and scary Santa and they freeze and realize they are not as brave as they thought. :) So with the help of daddy we did get a picture of the kids with the Mrs.. I forgot to get Santa in the picture, can you believe that? oops!


Kaylie got a doll to dress up and Landon got a car that makes sounds. They were both excited and have enjoyed playing with their presents.


This is our attempt at a family picture. I was trying to distract Landon from the balloon but he was more interested in trying to figure out why I was hiding it. :)

For all of your Purdue fans out there, Kaylie has learned the Purdue fight song and loves running around the house singing it. How can you not be proud to be a Boiler when you hear this...


Here are some other random pictures from the last week...

Landon looks so big here. Where did my baby go? He is changing so much each day. He continues to enjoy walking, eating big people food, and we just started him on "real" milk so he is enjoying that as well. He is also learning new words. He now says, "all d (all done), and eeee when he wants to eat. He says something that sounds like drink also.

Kaylie contines to love to play with her dolls and is starting to realize that Landon can now play so it's cute to watch them try to play together. She is also really into drawing and doing anything with the arts.

Happy Birthday

This weekend we celebrated Kaylie's 3rd birthday and Landon's 1st birthday. I am not sure where the last 3 years have gone but my babies are growing up too fast! Kaylie's birthday is Dec. 8th and Landon's is Dec. 13th. We try to do them the 1st weekend in Dec. so we can stay as far away from Christmas as possible. Just like the day my babies were born it was snowing and yucky out. Kaylie was born in an 8 inch snow storm closing all the schools for a couple days and the day we brought Landon home from the hospital it was a snow emergency as well. Luckily everyone traveled safely and all of our family was here for the special day. Here are a few pictures. I did 2 cakes because I wanted the kids to each have their own theme and cake to enjoy. Kaylie had a Cinderella party and Landon had a 1st birthday party. Kaylie wanted white cake with purple icing and loved every bite. Landon really enjoyed his cupcake and already has a sweet tooth.

Here are Kaylie and Landon opening presents. Kaylie was really into her birthday and understood exactly what it was about. Landon being 1, just went with the flow and watched and enjoyed the benefits of new toys.
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Of course the kids got plenty of toys to fill our basement and it's not even Christmas yet. Kaylie is enjoying her new clothes, digital camera, easel,doll house,and garden tools. Landon is enjoying is clothes, ride on toy, ball toys, and cars.

Not only will Landon turn 1 on the 13th he also learned how to WALK!! He figured it out and is off to the races. I still find it funny when I walk in another room and he follows me just walking along. It's so cute and I am loving it. It is sure helping my back because he wanted me to walk with him all day. So that is our big news of the week. Here is a little video.