Labor Day Weekend

We got to go visit cousins! 

We went to the zoo.

Oops! Somehow neither of us saw that Mancub's hat was over his eyes till after the picture.

I can't remember what they were talking about but I don't remember any sad conversations...so despite the somber faces we really did have a great time!

Balancing cousins.

 Uncle P taught us how to play Pandemic. We loved it! And we saved the world every time!

Sunday walk

Cute little Batman. You should know he was also missing his pants and singing into a microphone. It was so funny.

We built a fort.

And our cousins introduced us to frozen Go-gurts. Big big hit with my yogurt loving girls!

We love you cousins!! Thanks for letting us come and play! And for sharing your beds and rooms!

Christmas and Cousins

Our Christmas season, unfortunately, was full of sickness, but we still had a wonderful time just being together. I've also been on semi-bed rest since the beginning of December. So both of those factors led to some really simplified Christmas traditions. 

Like using a can of frosting for our candy houses instead of our traditional royal icing that turns ROCK solid.

Before Handsome and I headed to bed we took a picture of how it would look when the girls woke up.

Santa brought the girls an easel with paints, colored chalk, and colored whiteboard markers. 

And he brought them each a set of books. 

A Fancy Nancy set for our fancy Big Sis and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie set for our animal loving Baby Beluga.

Mom and Dad gave Baby Beluga an airplane riding toy.

Checking out our new Christmas ornament from our May Disney trip, while wearing the new princess bows from both her stocking and Big Sis' stocking.

Each year we decided to give the kids an ornament that hopefully had to do with something we did that year, and then by the time they head off to college they would have at least 18 ornaments of their own to decorate a mini tree in their dorm room.

Mom and Dad gave Big Sis a caboodle with bracelets and necklaces and colorful combs (someone was always trying to use Dad's comb and we kept misplacing it). 

We loved getting new books and games from our wonderful family! Thank you bunches and gobs! Books are one of our girls' FAVORITE things.

 

Baby brother's first gift ever--made by Great Grampa M's sister. One of the other reasons it is so special is that Handsome had a blanket made of the same type of material and with the same color when he was little.

Right after Christmas our cousins came to visit, which Big Sis LOVED because she really needed someone to play with who wasn't sick or under the weather. Baby Beluga loved hanging out with Uncle P (my apologies, Uncle P...none of the pictures I took turned out very good!)