Happy New Year!

We had our traditional New Years Eve...dinner with family friends at Outback then the kiddos went home with my parents and we went to a "Pajama Party" at the Wheelers! It was a great way to "rock" in the New Year!

Merry Christmas

Santa came and left lots of goodies for Ella, Cole and Drew...so they must have been good this year!! It really was so much fun watching them open gifts this year. They both were at the stage where they opened, looked at the gift, and then went looking for more!! Cole said his favorite thing was his choo-choo train table from Santa and Ella's was her Bitty Baby from Santa. Drew was also thrilled about his new baby monitor!! Such a fun Christmas to spend as a family of FIVE!!

Christmas Eve

All dressed-up for Christmas Eve service at church! Angelic!! Now...if they will only act as good as they look. (Please disregard Cole's un-matching socks...a battle I wasn't willing to fight!)

Too cute...

Not to share!!

Jammie Fun

Gotta love playing on the floor in jammies!! 

Cookie and Book Exchange Playgroup

The Raneks were so gracious to host us for our annual Christmas cookie and book exchange playgroup. The kids all had such a good time!! 

The funny part about this picture is that the kids did this all by themselves!! Alli went to check on them and there they were...all ready for a picture! 

Cole is SUPER excited about his new book!! 

Better late than never!

We finally got our tree all decorated!! The kids had so much fun looking at all of their ornaments and finding the special places for all of them to go.

Cole's branch...all of the ornaments that we gave him to put on went into the same place!!

Christmas Cookies

We got together at Jim and Judy's for the annual Christmas Cookie baking day. We were so excited because Natalie, Chris's girlfriend, joined us for a while. Ella, Cole and Anna got into the mix and had a ball decorating and eating the icing. Such a fun day!!

"Baby's First Christmas"

One Month Old

Ella                                   Cole                                      Drew
8lbs 4oz-25%                                         9lbs 12oz-41%                                            10lbs-61%
21.5in-63.2%                                         21.75in-46%                                                21.75-61%
                                                              Head 14.5in-18%                                         Head 14.75-39%

 Ella

Ella

Cole

 Drew

 Drew

 Drew

Drew

So...does he look like Ella or Cole?? Or neither???

Yet another...

Bulldog Game!!!

Cuties!!

Our little monster is 3 weeks old

Cole wanted to join in the mix!!

Drew is a pretty good baby. He is not quite as laid back as I remember Cole being, but he is only 3 weeks old:-) He really only cries when he wants to eat...which is quite frequently, especially in the evenings. He had a stretch of about a week where he was sleeping through the night (11:30p-6ish) but I let him stretch out his feedings a bit too much with running errands and I got him off schedule a bit. (It could be the 3 week growth spurt too) He is sleeping in his car seat that sits in the cradle next to our bed. He seems to be following suit with the other two and mommy...reflux!! All babies have some reflux, I know, but he really gets upset about it! We will see what the doc has to say when we see her again. Our first MD appt was when he was 5 days old and he had already regained his birth weight so we aren't going back to see the doc until he is a month old. I can't wait to see how big "beefy" is by then!! Ella and Cole are adjusting. They haven't had any jealousy that they have taken out on Drew, mostly just acting out to get mommy or daddy's attention...which is to be expected. They really seem to love him!!