Christmas 2009

Christmas time was so much fun with Taya this year! She loves all the Christmas lights and loved plugging and unplugging the lights on our Christmas tree. She sings "Santa Clause is Coming to Town" all the time and asks to watch "Elf" and "The Polar Express - or "the train show" - every single day. We still watch it, unfortunately. I think I have the whole thing memorized by now! We had so many family parties this year and so much fun with everyone! It was a great Christmas, but extremely busy and a little difficult adjusting to two kids, so needless to say I'm looking forward to a little more relaxed week next week! :)

Grandpa Treu was bouncing Taya and Maya (cousin) on his lap and they were cracking up, it was adorable! ...

Grandma and Grandpa Treu with the kiddos...

Our family on Christmas Eve at my sister's house, Taya's face cracks me up ...

Grandma and Grandpa Woodward came over on Christmas Eve and gave Taya a kitchen. She LOVES playing with it, she makes us food and drinks everyday :) Thanks Mom & Dad!! ...

Taya was really cute Christmas morning. We had to wake her up at 8:00... why can't that happen any other day of the year!? Every morning we're awakened by our sweet princess at 6:30, but of course Christmas Day when I'm automatically up that early she sleeps in!! Grr... Anyway, this is what Santa brought Taya. She opened all her presents sitting in her car :) She had a lot of fun opening presents, but left them half opened because she'd get to busy doing other things! ...

Our little Santa man, he's getting so chubby! :) ...

Christmas afternoon we headed up to Wyoming to see Nana and Papa Schiffhauer. Taya had a blast playing in the snow and by the campfire! It was nice to get away and SO nice to have other people watching my kids! And the presents were nice too :) haha. ...

Cousin Maya and Taya...

Thanks everyone for a great Christmas! Every year right after Christmas I always say I can't wait for Christmas next year! Luckily we have enough candy at our house to last us until then :) Maybe we'll save it and give it away for Halloween... Save us a little money! Ha. Hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday!

Such a Nice Big Sister...

Tonight Cam yelled at me to hurry and come see what Taya had done...

Thanks for sharing your baby with Dodger, sweetie :)

Update

Yes I'm still alive over here, just haven't posted for a while, sorry! Dodger is getting big so fast! He started smiling this week, it's so cute. He's had colic for a while BUT little interesting story - our chiropractor told Cam that most colic comes from the spine so he said to bring him in. I was a little skeptical of the whole thing, but WOW!! Seriously I can't believe the difference! He used to cry for about three hours every night and has been adjusted twice now and no longer has a fussy time. We couldn't be more excited, it's so nice not to have a screaming baby. I always said I didn't know how mom's could handle that, but I guess you don't really have a choice! Anyway, he's much happier now, and I am too. Although, I did have to stop drinking Dr. Pepper and that I am NOT too happy about :( So sad!

We've been potty training Taya for a little while now and she's doing AMAZING! I'm so excited about it, changing a two year old's diapers after a newborn's isn't very fun :) It's so funny though, all her pants fall off of her now cause she's so dang skinny. It's pretty cute though! She talks about Santa and watches Elf literally everyday... does that make me a bad mom? :) She sat on his lap at our church Christmas party and gave him a high five when she was done. I think she was pretty proud of herself. Haha. I'll have to post more pictures when I get them all uploaded.

That's all I can think of at the moment. Time is flying by so fast! We're so excited for Christmas, it's coming up so fast! Jocelin finished Dodger's baby pictures, so I'll be posting those soon, they're adorable, she did a great job! Here's a few random pictures until then ....

So happy in his new swing! (Thanks Mom & Dad!!!)


Crazy hair!... speaking of which, he got his first haircut today! :)


Taya finally got to use her new snow clothes the other day! She kept making this face for some reason :/