More of the cute one

just wanna smoosh those cheeks all day. even with the drool that's always present. love. love. love.

It was lovely

Christmas that is. So lovely I decided to not worry about too many pictures. so we don't really even have some of Christmas morning. meh. still think it was an alright idea.

We did manage to gift our eldest son with a sa-weeeet play kitchen. A year in the making. And it came together swimmingly (thanks to kolt, builder extraordinaire.)




Hope yours was nice as well. 2012 will be an interesting year I can feel it. Its always sort of weird getting past Christmas and feeling that space that exists between the holidays and the next year. But hopefully it will give us all some time to reflect and plan ahead (although perhaps not at the same time, might blow yo' mind.)




Then there's this cutie face McGee. Loves to eat the fists these days. Sometimes an occasional thumb until he digs the roof of his mouth. ouchie. But he forgives his rogue hands pretty easily and they always come back for more. Good times in 3-month-old town. Good times.

it was my birthday and such

first things first, finished the last christmas sewing project:





yeah. i'd say they were pretty pimp. (*snicker, snicker, snicker*) They're for Kolt's younger brother and he doesn't read my blog so don't tell, k? He actually knows (sorta) that I was making these for him. You see, our convo went like this:

me: "Clay, what do you want for christmas?"
Clay: "Uhhh, I dunno."
me: "Well, if you don't say what you want you're going to get scrabble pillows that spell out PIMP."
Clay: "Ok."

There you have it.
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It was my birthday the other day. It was Kolt's birthday that same day too but since it's my blog I'm going to talk about my birthday.

It was fun. We got massages in the morning (we totally regretted this the next day when all our muscles were in total spaz-tastic shape. ouchie) and then went to our favorite BBQ place Pat's. So. Good.  And then we finished up Christmas shopping for the kids. I made two cakes, one for me and one for kolt the next day. Both were delish. Both may have something to do with the early onset of Diabetes for us. Sugar is sort of in high gear around here. Besides two cakes, we have homemade toffee (my parents give this out every year), homemade twix bars, homemade caramel clusters,  and sugar cookies. We'be been trying to pawn them off on unsuspecting neighbors and such so hopefully we might have room for some christmas cookies in the future. and then we're all going on a sugar detox come jan 1st. (not really but we probably should.)
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And now my thoughts turn to painting. I almost got out my watercolors today but then I had to finish the PIMP pillows. so perhaps tomorrow. we'll see. I feel the need to paint my grandmother a painting for her birthday since she feels like everyone forgets her birthday. (hi grandma! no promises but I really do want to paint ya something.)  Everyone should call her and say happy birthday to her on the 29th. she'd love that.

gray meets santa

and snoozes through the whole thing. I don't blame him though. do you see this santa's "beard"? uhhhhh, lets try for an upgrade next year.

supporting the peeps

my friend jenna likes to take photos of stuff. lately, it's temples. she's selling prints of her work so you should check them out! They're different than the usual temple pictures which is nice. Gotta shake things up a bit, eh?  Plus she has plans for more temples. yay for creative people!

a morning craft

this is how our day started. and we haven't achieved anything since. But what a lovely morning craft. Got the idea from here via pintrest.  you can follow me if you wanna.

a two-and-a-half year old's prayer

Dear Heavenly Father,

  Thank you for this day. Thank you I could play soccer. And go to the bank to get a sucker. And go trick-or-treating. Bless me I can play toys on my bed. And Goodbye.

editor's note: we haven't been to the bank in probably a month. Not sure where that one came from (but I guess the theme was consistent with the whole trick-or-treating thing.)

just gray

So its been a few days. I thought I'd post a bit about our newest guy.

this kid loves his brother its amazing. the best time is in the tub.

Gray is doing great. He's almost doubled his birth weight and I'm pretty stoked to get him on some solids this next month. He eats pretty much constantly in the evenings now. Des never "cluster fed" but Gray sure does.

Its been fun to see his personality more and more and one things for sure: he loves his big brother. He watches him and smiles at him and they get along pretty swell. (for now. the day Gray tries to take Des' toy will be a day we'll all remember.) He's also pretty emotional which is funny to see. Des was way different. Gray will get upset and then get REALLY upset in like 20 seconds. I hate to say it but he's totally like me. And he's a super wimp when it comes to discomfort too. again, just like me. He got his shots this past dr's appointment and WAILED for 20 minutes after, no joke. Des cried at his first shots for about 30 seconds and then was fine.

Gray is a smiling fool. and he has the best conversations with us. He rolls over and bats at toys. I think he discovered his feet today (not so much that they're attached to him but mostly that they're STILL there from the last time he stared them down. woh.)

And he's not sleeping through the night yet. but that's ok, we're sort of used to the every other hour wake up between Des and Gray. so we're dealing. They both have colds this past week so they're not too comfortable sleeping.

So that's Gray. I'll try to think of something exciting to post about later.