Christmas 2014

Santa at The Trees.  Emmett spent most of the evening rolling around on the floor.

 Santa's not so bad!

Bibs and her sea turtle.  Sparkle Something Or Other

 Evan and his Pokemon gear.

 Great Grandma & Aunt Laurie.

 Santa & babes.

 The whole crew.  Smallish this year!

 Christmas Eve.

 Cookies for Santa.

 Reading The Night Before Christmas.

 Finding reindeer antlers on Christmas morning!

 Hollan & Lyla and Rainbow the life size pony.

Santa 2014

Surprisingly, Emmett marched right up to Santa and let me put him up on his lap.  Then Emmett looked at Santa for a hot second and said, "I'm outta here!".  This was Take Two, trying it on Evan's lap.  Still not Emmett's idea of fun.  But overall, the perfect Santa picture!

Emmett - 18 Months!

Where have the last 18 months gone?!  Gone is our tiny little skinny baby and here stands a gigantic football tossing toddler.  *sniff, sniff*

 Emmett Loves: to dance, read books, drink fruit smoothie "shakes", color with crayons, Sesame Street (especially Grover, Cookie Monster & the Count) and the door chime signaling that Daddy is home (at which time he throws down whatever he has and runs to the back door yelling "Dada").

 There's that tongue again!

 Emmett is also getting some words: shoe, sock, book, trash, Mama, Dada, Baba, and "Grogah" for Gover.

 Sweet, smiley man.

The 18 Month Stats:
Weight - 26lbs 10oz - 81%
Height: 34" - 93%
Head - 19 1/8" - 82%

Yep, our skinny little baby is growing up.  :-(

Deck the Halls

Snuggling Frosty.

 Getting the lights untangled.  Always a gargantuan undertaking.

 Em D helping.

 Getting in the Christmas spirit.

 It was so fun this year to decorate.  The kids were so into it and excited.

 Garland.

 Except this guy got crabby.

 Ok, now we are back in business.

 Ornaments going up!

 Head Elf.

 Evan made this ornament with a paper clip and smaller ornaments.  MacGyver's got nothing on this dude.

 The star is up!

 Trimming complete.

 Capped off with a little One Direction dance party.

Maraton de Lectura

In October, Evan's school had a reading marathon fundraiser.  Everyday, we kept track of the number of minutes he read and we tallied up the days, weeks and got a monthly total.  We knew that he read A LOT (especially since we pledged to donate $.10/minute!!!) but we were so incredibly proud to learn this Friday that he read the most minutes of his whole class!!

 The school had an assembly Friday and in front on the whole school, Evan was recognized and applauded!  He received this snazzy certificate, ribbon and a $10 gift card to Barnes and Noble. (Football is model's own)

The best part was the pride and accomplishment Evan felt.  We are...SO PROUD,

Inaugural Sled of Winter

The kids are really embracing this early winter.  This here is what I like to call making lemonade out of lemons.

 Big Emmy man in a big snowsuit.

 Evan, Isabella and the Bibs.  Neighborhood buds.

 "Wheeeee!"

 Sometimes you end up under the bushes.

 If you could see his face, you'd see he loves it.  We think...?

 Daddy and Emmy D.

 Sliding is a little tricky when you can't move your limbs.

 Evan got a snowboard from Grandpa Joe and DeeDee for Christmas.  Good thing it came early so we could bust it out!  After one or two times down the hill, he HAD it.  A natural.  Stay tuned for triple salcows or whatever they call them.

Halloween

Hollan the mermaid princess.  Complete with seaweed.

 Babee and Frankie N. Stein.

 The cousins!  A Flower, the Sun, a Mermaid, Frankenstein and a Red Ninja Pirate Power Ranger.

 Our goblins.

 Pretty sure the 'stache made his costume more authentic.

 Hairy Tough Guy and Frankie.

 Cookies from Babee.