merry christmas!

so this is my christmas card this year - which i won't be sending out before christmas apparently...i ordered my christmas cards on the 10th thinking that was early enough to get them in time to send them out...well...they're still not here...oh well...merry christmas anyway!!!

my little marie is not acting so little!

marie has been growing like a weed lately - she is not my precious little newborn anymore - she's becoming my precious little girl! (she turned 8 months on nov. 30 so you'd think this wouldn't be a surprise haha) tuesday morning, i went in to get her and she had pulled herself up to her knees in her crib! eben and emily jane were so excited to see their little sister almost standing up. :) she is also almost crawling now...she mostly does a girly army crawl kicking thing - but she will once in a while get up on her hands and knees for a few scoots. :) it is so amazing to me how much children grow and change in that first year. what once was a cute little bundle whose simple stares excited me so much is now a squirmy giggly little girl whose laughs and antics delight me. and of course this does make me want another baby :) too bad rhett thinks we're done. HA

the kitty kat has ears too mommy

so i put emily jane to bed tonight and a minute later she is crying her little head off! so i go back in there to see what's the matter...and here's what i heard (it might be what she said but i don't know)

"emily jane, why are you crying?"

"because"

"because why?"

"because the kitty kat has ears too mommy...the kitty kat needs kisses on his ears too mommy"

"the kitty kat needs a kiss on his ear?"

"his two ears mommy"

so i kissed her little toy kitty kat's ears, she stopped crying, smiled, and said night night.

i would LOVE to be inside a toddler's head for a day.

family pictures are a bust

i have now decided that for the next 4 years...our family pictures will not be so cute...until our kids are grown up enough to throw on a smile and hold it for longer than 2 seconds...but here ours is this year...merry christmas :)

thanksgiving

i didn't get any pictures of our actual thanksgiving...but we did have a wonderful time! i think we had 16 people sitting around the table for our turkey dinner! it was so incredibly fun!!!

here's a picture of emily jane with one of her school friends - both sporting their pilgrim hats. :) they were quite precious. :)