Christmas Day

The cake Evelyn and I made to take to Grandma's house

This is the aftermath...notice the wad of toliet paper in her nose...she was so wound up running around the wrestling with "uncle Boo" her nose started bleeding, so this was our attempt to stop it without her having to stop. Her cute robe that she will probably never wear again. We had a wonderful Christmas overall, filled with great times with family and many new toys for everyone! I love experiencing Christmas through/with Evelyn, she was so into everything this year!

Nora starring as Baby Jesus

The pictures are not the greatest, but Nora is the baby being held by "Mary" behind the angel. She did great was awake the whole time, just taking it all in.

Christmas Eve

The Seeley side cousins or brothers and sisters as Evelyn calls them.

Nora at the very end was interested in the paper.

Our Lady of the Snows

The highlight of the night, she choose to ride the donkey instead of the camel, which was great. The line wasn't nearly as long and we didn't have to pay for adult to go with her.

She was able to feed all types of animals carrot chips, which she loved. We had a great time and the lights were very pretty! A very nice man even gave her one of the little stuffed animals at the end.

Parade in St Charles with AOH

We went to watch Jeff and the Ambassadors sing on Main st in Old St Charles. They sing in the parade they do and then a little skit and then do some caroling, which the weather is usually freezing so we took advantage of the warmer weather and went along. Evelyn enjoyed the popcorn we got while we were there and a small portion of the singing. She wasn't too interested in the characters and the santas. She was really into not liking the "boy santas" and only the "girl santas.Nora kind of looked like the boy from Christmas story who couldn't put his arms down, but she was happy the whole time we were there and she was warm.

Nora's Turning Purple

Nora has not been the healthiest baby lately, we have been battling thrush and then pink eye. The thrush is much better, but just wasn't gone 100% so we took her in today to get her mouth "painted" with another medicine. They warned us it would be messy and would stain her mouth, so here she is. Not as bad as what I had pictured!

Christmas Tree Hunting

We finally found one, was not a quick process this year as usual, even though we said it would be quick.

Evelyn, being Evelyn.

Nora was as warm as one could be...she seemed to enjoy being out there even in the cold.

Gingerbread house

Sisters

These girls are just too sweet together. Nora just belly laughs at the sight of Evelyn, she will not laugh for anyone else. Nora has finally learned to roll and is all over the place now. Just in time for her 6 month screening with her parent educator.

Thanksgiving at our house the day after

Yes Evelyn is rubbing butter all over the turkey, she wanted to help, why not. She had a great time.

Nora just being a happy girl as she is most often, just keep her fed.

A Visit with Santa

What a difference a year makes. Evelyn loved going to see Santa this year even told him what she wanted.

Nora's 6 Month Check up

Nora's Stats while I'm thinking of it.....
Weight: 13.7 lbs
Height: 24 and some inches
Head size went up to the 34 % big jump from last time.

She didn't gain as much as she had the last appointment but nothing she was worried about she is at about 8% and 9% on the growth chart, but is staying close to her curve.

A Few New Pictures

We have been meaning to get to Creve Coeur Lake to take Nora's picture in the same tree we have Evelyn's 5month pictures in. I knew it would be a little dark, but figured we could still get some pictures, which that was okay, but the tree was no longer there except the stump. This worked out okay though. So here are our pictures we took.

I cannot believe how grownup she looks in this picture!

Evelyn's Dance Class

Few more Halloween Pictures

Nora really enjoyed the jumper, took her a little while to figure it out but then she really enjoyed it.

Halloween Night

Will add pictures later.....just needed to put this down before it was forgotten.

I wish we would have video taped Evelyn trick or treating, but who would really want to watch all of that. She was so excited about going. She knocked on their door and immediately after opening the door her first thing was to ask "what is your dogs name?" if there was not a dog insight she would just ask if they had any pets. One house they were sitting outside and she is peeking through the windows and asking about their dog. She meet pretty much everyone in my mom's neighborhood that she could. Then we went back to my mom's house and she passed out candy. She was yelling at people at the top of court to come on over and get candy. She once tried to take the candy with her and I guess meet them half way or something. I tell ya we may have to sign her up for the neighborhood watch or something.
Now if we could only get her to learn there are times when asking numerous questions is not okay and that you need to just listen, like during dance class!

Halloween Preview

Introducing Strawberry Shortcake and her cat Custard.

Our Latest Trip to the Zoo

Some new pictures

Trying out some different toys with Nora.

Today, Sunday Evelyn sang for the first time, we do have video but it is very long. It was also blessing of the stuffed animals during children's time.
Evelyn has wanted to put Nora in this since she was born. We have to put a blanket it so she stays up, but she really likes it for a few minutes. Nora if 5 months today...my how time has flown by!

Apple Picking

We finally had a chance to head out to Eckerts and attempt some apple picking, but we didn't have much luck they were pretty picked over at least we thought so. It didn't help that it was 85 degrees out, just not apple picking weather. Oh well we did manage to find some and Evelyn had a good time.

Nora seemed to enjoy herself for the most part, except when I would try to really dig in a tree for some good apples.

Field Trip to the Pumpkin Farm

Evelyn's preschool class took a trip to one of the pumpkin farms near us.

Most of the kiddos in her class that were there. None of them were really interested in taking a picture.

Evelyn and her best buddy Sam riding on the horse swings. They both loved these swings.