A Very Merry Christmas!

We all had a great Christmas with our families. The girls were spoiled with Christmas gifts...needless to say we are working on sharing all our toys:) Gift highlights were the following: Addison- aBarbie car; Ella - a toss-up...either a spatula (special kid version b/c she loves to bake - she wanted to bake on Christmas Day even) or her Packer helmet; Lauren - all the wrapping paper!

Snow Days are SNOW much Fun!

Addison helping Ella up the deep snowy hill while sledding

"My parents tell me not to eat snow but I'll just do it quick while nobody is looking!"

"MMMMmmm...so good!"

Five days before Christmas we all had a snow day! We had lots of fun and were quite productive as well! 

Countdown to Christmas!

We have been to the holiday parade, visited Santa (two times), toured parks filled with Christmas lights, and visited with reindeer among other fun holiday activities the past few weeks. This week Addison has her Sunday school program (where she's excited to sing) and both of the girls have their  holiday program at daycare (more singing) and then Christmas will be here! The girls are counting down their Christmas paper rings and our "Elf on the Shelf" (who the girls named Elf #3) is reporting nightly back and forth to Santa:)

SMILE!

We had Lauren's six month pictures taken last weekend. It took all of 5 minutes to take lots of pictures because she was so smiley and happy! It was very hard to choose which pictures were our favorites!

On the other hand, she isn't quite as perky this week. The girls started daycare (Addison and Ella really like it) while Lauren seems to do fine except she is refusing to take a bottle or baby food from her teachers:( Good thing Larry is there to "save" the day...he is able to run down to her room and feed her (she is a little spoiled I guess:). He said she quickly settles out, reaches out to him and has the biggest smile and takes her bottle or food! She just probably needs a bit more time to transition into a new routine and all will be okay. Her world has been rocked a bit:( She does seem to like it though too-just not a big fan of eating with others I guess!?!

As you can see in the pictures, she is sitting up (all the time now on her own) and "talking" a ton. She is growing up fast!