Six Months!?!

Where has the time gone? Our little baby is already six months old! Its amazing how much Josie has done over the past couple of months. She's sitting great, starting to roll her way around a room and even tries to scoot a little. She's a jumper just like her sister and loves to play with Kelsey as best she can. While her sleep habits are all over the board (12 hours one night, up every couple of hours the next), she's a very happy baby and adapts to our busy schedule well. We can't wait to see what the next six months bring!






First peas - she ate nearly the whole jar on her first time and didn't spit any out!


Not quite as big of a fan of carrots but she seems to like them better with rice cereal mixed in.

Christmas Celebrations

We had a busy but wonderful Christmas week. We started on Tuesday celebrating as a family. Then on Wednesday we celebrated with Nana and Papa. On Thursday we did Nana's side of the family and then drove down to Grandma and Grandpa's house to celebrate all over again. On Friday we headed to Papa's side of the family. Phew! Kelsey keeps asking if we can open more presents. I think she wants every day to be Christmas!

While we took a ton of pictures I just pulled out a few of my favorites.


Cuties in their pjs


I love how sweet Kelsey is being in this picture helping Josie with her present. Of course she immediately laid claim to it once it was open ;)


With Nana and Papa


With Grammy and Great Papa


Cousins


This picture cracks me up in that Kelsey is playing with Josie's toy and Josie is playing with the box. So typical :)

Santa Train

For the third year in a row we did the Santa Train with the Worsleys, Hoveys and Sextons. We had such a fun time! Can't wait for next year! (Doehnes - we missed you! Hope you're all feeling better!)


Off we go!


Josie's first train ride - she loved it!


The Worsleys - thanks for always organizing and hosting!


Waiting in line for Santa - can you sense the excitement? ;)




The cookie and hot chocolate reward




The babies got a treat too ;)




Very excited to be heading home!


Intently watching "Curious George - A Very Monkey Christmas"


All the little monkeys

Santa Claus

Kelsey is not a fan of Santa so we like to take her to Artis Photography as they're able to photoshop her in. This year she didn't even want to sit on the sleigh by herself so she was actually on my lap. You'd never know it! Josie was ok with Santa for one photo before she started crying. Maybe next year we'll get one with both girls happily on Santa's lap. A mom can dream right? :)

Preschool Holiday Party

We all had a fun time at Kelsey's preschool holiday party this year. Kelsey still wanted nothing to do with Santa but she did enjoy the crafts and puppet show.


Showing off her cookie (decorated by mom...directed by Kelsey)


At least someone sat with Santa this year!


My girls


Santa and Frosty

O Christmas Tree

Kelsey was a big help with the tree this year. She helped test all the lights and hang them....well she tried at least ;) She also put up a few ornaments but had more fun going through all of them and playing with them.


Hanging the lights


Mommy's helper










I think the advent calendar has been Kelsey's favorite thing this year. She can hardly wait each morning to open her "prize"


When we pulled out the snowman she said "I've missed you snowman!" and gave him a big hug

Crafty Holiday

Our best buds from playgroup came over for our annual holiday playdate. Sadly Matt wasn't able to make it due to being sick but the girls all had a grand time!


Hadley


Tehya


Kyra being silly

The girls had a great time doing crafts. They got to make presents, Christmas trees and necklaces. Thanks Tracy and Tehya for supplying the fun!

Double Wide

I finally broke down and bought a double stroller this last week with money saved from Great Grandma Simon and Uncle Ted. I'd had hesitations about buying a double stroller just because of the size of them. But I decided it would be much easier to take the girls for walks with a double jogger rather than continuing to put Josie in the Bjorn. They both seemed to love it and its been great so far! Thanks Grandma and Uncle Ted!


Taking up the trail :)


I think Kelsey's favorite part about the stroller is she gets to sit RIGHT next to Josie and hold her hand

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year with Chuck's side of the family all making the trek to our house. While we had good intentions of taking a big family picture it never worked out. Here are a few highlights from our day.


Uncle Jeremy and Gigi


Aunt Ulynn was by far Josie's favorite!


Hanging with Uncle David


Grandpa napping after the big turkey dinner


Grandma managed to catch up on some much needed rest too


I love this picture because of Kelsey's adoring look at Macey. She LOVED having her around to play with and has asked every day where she is.

First Foods

Last week we gave Josie her first taste of rice cereal. Overall she seems to like it - its hard to tell for sure since she basically spits out most of it. But she doesn't make the totally disgusted face or gagging/coughing noise that Kelsey always did so we consider it to be a success :) The night we gave it to her she slept from 10-7. We thought we'd hit the jackpot! The next few times we gave it to her? Up every few hours. Guess it was a fluke!