Month: December 2015

Rob and I took a quick trip (48 hours on the ground) to St. Petersburg Florida for his cousin, Kristina’s New Year’s Eve wedding. It was our first time leaving both boys and it sounds like it was a big …

Development: Nicholas is showing his comedic side. He loves to call Daddy, “Mama” and Mama, “Daddy”. Each nap and night time as I sing his resting song he runs out of his room to see how far he can get …

We love our local family and love that everyone moves their schedules so we can be together. The white elephant gift exchange resulted in some game playing with cousins and Grandma. We love how Nicholas and Cooper play together. This …

The excitement of Santa is starting in our house. The boys were pretty excited to get downstairs to see what Santa brought. This year they still slept until their normal 6am so we will enjoy that as long as it …

It is our third year of taking pictures of the boys with strands of lights and I am always so thrilled with the results. Rob has figured out exactly how to shoot this picture to make it look amazing. The …

We went to the toddler Christmas symphony with Grandma and Grandpa. It was the first time Rob and I went too and we all really enjoyed the show. We followed up the performance with some miniature train watching and play …

After the Santa beard pulling incident at Cooper’s preschool we were less than hopeful for a smiling Santa picture from both boys this year. We were thinking we might get the crying kid Santa picture, but I wasn’t expecting that …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2WLl_6JcOQ Today Cooper had his first school Christmas concert. We were “those” parents so excited to see our little guy on the big stage. At school he is a bit more timid, but he did it and we are so …

Wow, Cooper continues to bring us such joy, happiness and silliness to our lives every single day. We love this little 3.5 year old guy! He even got a piece of cake with 3.5 candles to celebrate his half birthday. …

Cooper worked with me on the very important job of making Daddy’s birthday cake. He insisted that the rum cake had to have a carrot coming out of it so we headed to the store to buy a carrot. I …