Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Lila's 5 Months

The past 5 months have just flown by! Lila is so much bigger than Lucy was at this age. She is either smiling bigger than you have ever seen or screaming louder than you can imagine. She is a deep feeler. She is rarely upset, but boy when she is watch out! It is so funny that even at this young age we can already see such a difference in her's and Lucy's personality. She seems to not only look like Don, but she may even share some of his personality traits. Lila is an observer. She is more observant and perhaps intuitive. It is so fun to speculate about what kind of a person she will develop into. She has a smile that lights up a room (just like her Dad)! We continue to call her bird because when she was a baby she was so dainty she reminded us of a bird. Now that she is no longer dainty we call her "buddha bird" or our newest "love bird" or really any variation on bird. She doesn't sleep at night nearly as well as her sister did. But then we knew it was pretty rare for a 6 week old to sleep 12 hours at night. She loves to see her mama and daddy's faces and lately little Lucy has been getting the biggest smiles. We are so thankful for the past 5 months and can't image our lives with out our "little Don" (aka little bird, aka Lila Joy). Below she is pictured with my friend, Chi's son James who is only a couple weeks younger than Lila.




Now what do you want to say about that smile??

Thanks to Cathie for the cute top and to Katie for the adorable Uggs!

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Monday, January 18, 2010

Visiting Santa and Winter Wonderfest at Navy Pier

So I am totally behind and still blogging about Christmas activities. Maybe I am just in denial that Christmas is over. I would like to say that this is the last holiday post, but probably in February I will be all caught up! So a couple days before Christmas we headed down to Navy Pier to go the the Winter Wonderfest which had all these fun rides and activities. After one train, one bus, and walking for like 30 minutes all the way to the end of Navy Pier we finally made it and boy was it worth it. Lucy went on a carousel, a mini ferris wheel (it only had 7 seats on it), moon bounces, and a train ride. It was beautifully decorated. They even had an indoor ice skating rink!





The tree was absolutely magnificent!!





This is as close to Santa as Lucy was willing to get. Notice that Lucy is screaming in fear while Lila is calming just chillin' on Santa's lap. Initially Lucy had said she wasn't scared of Santa anymore but then after she got on the podium and started approaching him, she was definitely not into it at all. But she did like Santa's little elf and even posed for a shot next to him. By the way, anyone else have a problem with the fact that Santa looks about 12 years old?





Look at that little doll face!!

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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Let it Snow!

We went sledding on Christmas Eve morning in our pajamas! I will spare you the shot of me in my pj's. But I will post one of Don in his! Doesn't he look stylin' in his reindeer jammies?







The day after Christmas we had a big snow storm. Everyone enjoyed playing in the snow, even our dog Payton!










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Sunday, January 3, 2010

Merry Christmas!

This is the first Christmas in 8 years that Don and I haven't traveled. We REALLY missed being with Don's family, but it sure was nice to not have to travel with two young kids. Being at home for Christmas gave us an opportunity to try and make our own family traditions. We went sledding, saw a light display, made homemade pizza, watched Christmas vacation, painted wrapping paper, and finally decorated that gingerbread house we never got around to in previous years. One of the most surprising things was that Lucy was completing disinterested in opening gifts, which was kind of disappointing. But Lila enjoyed it! Lila's first Christmas was very special and memorable indeed!







Lucy is working on her art project which is painting the wrapping paper for her gifts to her family. Don came up with this idea as a fun way of instilling in her the importance of giving as well as receiving gifts.

Here Lucy is singing "Oh Christmas tree" to our Christmas tree. She loves to talk to the Christmas tree and sing it songs. It has become her little friend. I am dreading taking down the tree because she is going to miss it so. Every morning when she wakes up she continues to say, "Good morning my Christmas tree!"



Making pizzas for lunch on Christmas Eve

Family photo at church on Christmas Eve

For a new Christmas tradition, we decided to have a birthday party for Jesus. Milo loved mixing up the cupcakes for Jesus' birthday party!






This was the best shot we could manage of Lucy in her Christmas dress! She wouldn't stop being a "ballerina" long enough to sit still for a picture!

Again the best shot we could get of the cousins. Little Lila was the only one who would cooperate with the photo taking!

What a wonderful Christmas we had as a family of four!! It was filled with new traditions and lots of memories!

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