Christmas Eve 2013

We finally moved into our new house about a month ago, so we were excited to invite our family over for Christmas Eve.  We went to the 5pm children's church service and then had dinner and some presents at our house afterwards.  Brady was one excited little boy.  He still didn't quite grasp the concept of what was going on.  Every time I would ask him if Santa was going to come see him he would say, "No, baby's sick." haha!  Him and Katelyn both got sick the last week of school so I guess he thought Santa surely would not want to come by our house and risk getting sick :).

We loved having everyone come to our house, and Brady and Katelyn certainly enjoyed it too.  We were especially happy to have my brother, Dustin, staying with us.  Brady is officially obsessed with his "Dus-in".  He CONSTANTLY wants to play with him, sit on his lap, have him pick him up.  I asked if he wanted me to make his lunch one day, "No momma, Dus-in make my lunch."  "Dus-in fly on airplane!"  He does let Dustin sleep in for a while, but then he wants to go get in bed with him and watch "choo choo" (also known as The Polar Express).  We are all going to miss him terribly when he heads back to the West Coast.

Making our annual Christmas Eve sugar cookies.

Our family of 4 :).

Brady giving Katelyn a kiss.

The girls!

He was pretty excited about the fire hat Coco got him.

He loves his umbrella from Gigi and Geno.

His piano from Nanna and Papa!

Riley getting some love from Geno.

His slippers from Nanna and Papa that he must put on every day now as soon as he wakes up :).

My beautiful mom and Grandma.

My mom and her fiancé, Bill. 

My adorable grandparents.

My love :).

Two of my favorite guys.

Santa came!!!

KVD 7 months old

Katelyn is 7 months old!  This little girl has stolen all of our hearts, and we just fall more in love with her everyday.  She has the sweetest personality, but she can be feisty too.  She has gotten really grabby lately.  If you leave something anywhere near her reach (phone, remote control, computer) she will get it, and it will go directly in her mouth!  She also tries to grab Brady and take stuff from him which is pretty funny.  "Baby get me momma!"  Her favorite things are sitting on the floor playing, her exersaucer, bath time, eating solid food, and being held.  She has started banging things together.  Her hand eye coordination has really improved.  You can tell she really wants to crawl, but she is not there yet.

She is wearing mostly size 12 month clothes and size 3 diapers.  She has a bottle in the morning, then solid food anywhere from 30-45 minutes later, a bottle mid-morning, solids for lunch, a bottle mid-afternoon, solids for dinner, and a bottle before bed.  She rarely finishes her bottles any more and really seems to prefer the solids.  I am no longer breast feeding.  I wasn't really planning on stopping this soon, but it just kind of happened.  It became too hard to keep up with at work and as soon as I stopped pumping there I pretty much just dried up.  Like I said, she really prefers the solids over the milk anyway.  I haven't tried the sippy cup yet, but I will do that any day now.

She is a great sleeper.  At home she goes down around 9am for her morning nap and that can last anywhere from 30 minutes-2 hours, and then she takes another nap after lunch anywhere from 45 minutes- 2 hours typically.  At school she still only sleeps about 30 minutes the whole day.  She usually takes another little nap around 3pm-5pm.  That is usually her longest nap of the day which I am trying to get her on a better schedule of sleeping longer in the middle of the day.  She goes to bed about 7pm and wakes up around 7am.

I didn't really take any 7 months pictures, but I did happen to take these.