Our Family Christmas

We celebrated our Christmas on Saturday since we will be in Texas for Christmas.  We had so much fun watching the kids open their presents, Miles really didn't care too much about opening the presents he just walked around looking at what everyone else got. But Kaitlyn on the other hand, she wanted to rip open any gift no matter if it was for her or not! :) It was so cute though because we told her that it was our Christmas so after we got done opening gifts she said "It's Jesus' birthday mommy!!" She was so excited about his birthday, and it made me so happy to see that even with these presents that we gave her, she still remembered the reason that we were celebrating Christmas!

Our beautiful tree with Miles looking at the gifts

The kids looking at their Santa gifts, Miles got a basketball goal

and Kate got Sleeping Beauty dress-up

Miles thought it would be more fun to stand on the box, he threw a fit when we made him get off of it!

Sleeping Beauty

Miles and Kate playing in their new tunnel

Santa Claus

We took the kids to go see Santa this past weekend, because for the first time since she has been born Kaitlyn wasn't afraid of him and was actually really excited to sit on his lap! We didn't think that Miles would be scared because Kate has always been a lot more cautious than him. But the moment that we went to put Miles on Santa's lap, he fell apart! I still think it is a very cute picture and in years to come we will get many laughs out of it I'm sure. After we were through, Kaitlyn said "mommy, why didn't Miles like Santa?" She just couldn't understand why anyone wouldn't like Santa!!

Kaitlyn's Class Picture

So this is Kaitlyn's class at her preschool, I thought it was a pretty cute picture, even though Kate isn't looking at the camera. Then I started to look even closer at it and realized that Kate's hand is not in her pocket, it is down her pants! Jon said she rolls Al Bundy style (the guy from the old show Married with Children)!!! I laughed so hard, I was now so glad that I decided to get it!

Feelin' Crafty!

Well our family has definitely been getting into the Christmas spirit! We have been doing all sorts of crafty things from baking Christmas cookies to painting ornaments! It has been so much fun and Kaitlyn has been loving it!!

The decorator!

Our beautiful cookies

I painted Kailtyn's arm and then her hands to make this reindeer, although when I showed it to Jon he said "oh that is a cute moose." I said a moose with a red nose? It is a reindeer, duh! :)

I made these ornaments for the kids to decorate, it was like making sugar cookie cutouts except you only use flour, salt, and water and they come out of the oven hard as a brick! The two gingerbread men I painted, and then I used the kids finger prints for buttons. Kate pained all the rest except for the yellow star which I painted first and then let Miles have at it with the blue paint!

Kaitlyn actually made this at school, isn't it so cute?! They used graham crackers instead of gingerbread. All she could do was talk about eating it and then when I finally let her, she wouldn't even take one bite!

Fun with Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Andy

Kaitlyn's 3 year old Check Up and Miles' 15 month Check Up

The kids went to the doctor yesterday for their well baby check up, and both are doing great and are very healthy. Kaitlyn only had to have a flu shot but poor little Miles had to have three shots, but the good news is that they are both caught up until age four now!! Here are their stats

Kaitlyn:

Weight- 29 lb 4 oz (50th percentile)

Height- 36.5 in (50th percentile)

Head Circumference-19 in

Miles:

Weight- 21 lb 8 oz  (10th percentile)

Height-31.75in (75th percentile)

Head Circumference- 19 in

Notice they both have the same head circumference!  The doctor said Miles is a tall skinny boy, I was a little worried about him being in the 10th percentile, but she pointed out how he is like Kate and never sits still. She said that there was nothing wrong with him, he was just a very active little kid. Kaitlyn is doing just fine too and is very healthy and she actually didn't even flinch when she got her shot! I was so impressed!!