I can’t believe it will be February in one week. I kept meaning to post about Christmas and then, clearly, never got around to it. So we are just skipping the “Our Christmas was awesome because…” blog post and moving on. It is freezing. Literally. And I feel like I have a million things to do before this baby girl monkey decides to make her appearance. (Finish the nursery, put away baby clothes, make cute things like I did for Eli’s nursery…oh and Elijah’s birthday party next weekend!)
Anyway, here is what our December looked like, according to my instagram feed.
Elijah was enamored with our Mickey lights. I’m glad we bought them last year, thinking he would get excited about them this Christmas. And we are currently “those people” who still have their lights up…we don’t turn them on anymore. Since Christmas was a whole month ago.
We spent New Year’s Eve at our friend’s house, with a bunch of our friends who all have kids now too. We were all out the door by 12:15. We know how to party…
He was not terrified of Santa. He loved pointing at him and yelling “Santa, ho ho ho!” When it was time to sit on his lap, Elijah didn’t LOVE it. But he was okay with it.
He did love the snow.
Since I am quite pregnant, I often have Elijah walk himself into the house from the car, especially if I have other things to carry. Every single time I do this, he insists on walking on the snow just beside the walkway. He fell face first into the snow once, got real upset, and then kept walking in it.
Our after-nap-ritual is to cuddle on the couch and watch a show or part of a movie. I love this ritual since it is really the only time that he will snuggle me anymore.
Sometimes I feel like all this kid ever wants to eat is fruit. And carbs. He asks for chips every single day.
Eli has developed a love for dancing. Whenever there is music on, he busts a move. This was at my OB, waiting for the doctor to come in.
Oh, we started the whole potty training thing…so Elijah rarely has pants on. Not like the whole not-wearing-pants thing is a crazy idea for this kid or anything.
This picture still makes me laugh whenever I look at it. He is so silly and happy all the time, its hard to get mad when it takes half an hour to get him clothed after a bath. Plus, doesn’t he look so tall?
We spent a lot of the cold, snowy days staying in our pjs until after nap. I’m not even embarrassed about it.
Elijah learned the joy of baking. Or in his eyes, sampling all the chocolate items.
And here he is eating peanut butter straight from the jar. I won’t pretend that he didn’t learn that one from me.
We went to the Christmas Extravaganza at our church. The highlights for Elijah were the train room; this obstacle course pictured above; and the candy cane walk…which really was more like Elijah running in circles even when the other kids stopped.
I love when he will sit all cuddled up like this.
It got warm for a second in December. It felt like spring and everyone had the same idea as we did to spend the afternoon at the mall.
After a costco trip, he played with a paper fowl roll for hours.
RJ bought me a heated back massager and Eli often climbs up and turns it on.
I love him in underpants. Especially boxer briefs. Elijah also loves them and can never decide which pair he wants to wear.
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