Cute Mackenzie

Kenzie found a little Santa in a rocking chair ornament on the carpet and set it up right then pulled a chair up next to it and sat down.

Waiting until Christmas...

We told Kenzie she had to wait until Christmas to open presents and this was her response:

This is what she does when she's mad. Although, we didn't have any presents under the tree at that time, so I'm not sure she knew what we were talking about. She may have just heard she couldn't do something and wasn't happy about that :)

She was happy after though.

We were trying to get her grumpy picture and she kept laughing.

She ended up not being able to wait until Christmas. She had one present under the tree and Jackson showed it to her. I told her she couldn't open it. She said she wanted to just hold it. Which she did for awhile. Then she took it upstairs when I wasn't looking and Jordan came down and told me she had opened it. It was just clothes, but she loved the pants that were in it and wanted to wear them. I was mean and told her she had to wait until Christmas. She wasn't very happy about that. Sometimes when she sees the presents under the tree she says "where's my present?"

Making and Eating Snowflakes

Last week we made some snow flakes and then we ate them. I got the idea from ourbestbites.com (you should check this blog out. it has yummy recipes.) It was fun and tasty activity.

We folded and cut tortillas the same way we do for paper snowflakes.

Then we buttered them and sprinkled them with a cinnamon/sugar mixture. The we baked them.

And then we ate them. They reminded me of crustos from Taco Time.

Even Jordan liked them.

After Jordan had been eating his for awhile, he held it up and said it looked like a kitty. And it really did.

Then Kenzie held hers up and said it was her Baby Jaguar.

Colie was there too.

The Tree

This year, thanks to a Plum District deal of the day, we went to a tree farm to cut down our Christmas tree. Part of the deal was a picture with Santa and a Sleigh ride, but we went during the week and apparently he's only there on weekends. We did get a picture of us in Santa's sleigh though. The lady was supposed to email it to me. But she didn't. Doug thinks that she just couldn't read my hand writing, which is very possible. Although I thought it looked very readable. Oh well. We have a hard copy of it. At first we were disappointed that Santa wasn't there and there was no sleigh ride (we did get a peek at the sleigh and it looked a lot like a hay ride at pumpkin patches), but after talking to the lady we were glad we didn't go on a Saturday because she said it's super crowded and they run out of parking places. We did get some free hot chocolate and popcorn with our tree. We loved being able to have so many options of what tree we got. Jackson got really cold by the end and claimed he didn't have any fun. But he really did. We all did. :)

Jack pulling and Jordan pushing Kenzie on the tree carrier.

When Kenzie saw all the trees she said "mountain!" I told her they were trees and she said "it's like a mountain."

The kids all getting a ride.

Jordan being a tree on a stump.

Jackson brought some candy cane in case he got hungry.

Where's Jordan?

The winner! We think it's pretty perfect.

Doug cut down the tree.

Pulling the tree.


We decorated the tree the next day. We got a smaller tree than we normally do and I was happy it took much less time than normal to put the lights on.

I've been trying to have the boys learn the articles of faith and so since they know the word ordinences they kept calling the ornaments ordinances. :)

Don't you love her outfit? :) I think she had 2 long sleeve shirts, 1 short sleeve shirts, 2 or 3 night gowns, 1 pair of pajama pants, and 1 shoe. Instead of taking off her clothes when she brings me something else she wants to wear I usually just layer it on top of the others.

Kenzie wanted help with each ornament she put on the tree.

What's your real name?

Last night we had our church Christmas party. One of the young women came up to Kenzie and asked her what her name was. Kenzie responded with "Princess Peach." We laughed and Doug asked her what her real name is. Jordan tried to help her out and said "Kenzie" but she still claimed Princess Peach is her name. So next time you see her you should ask her her name. She'll likely say Princess Peach.

A few more cute things Kenzie did yesterday:

After the ward party as we were walking in the hall Doug handed me one of her boots. (I didn't even notice she was missing one. My boys never would have gotten away with taking their shoes off in that kind of situation. She gets away with a lot more than they ever did... hopefully she still turns out okay. :)) I mentioned something to Kenzie about her missing a shoe and she just laughed loudly and kept on going.

When we got home Jack was standing in the garage by the door to the house and Kenzie ran up behind him and said "Beat you!" It was pretty funny. Especially since she didn't actually beat him and it was Jackson and he was not happy that we agreed with her. He hates losing. In fact, when we got inside he ran in front of her and said "beat you!"

Jackson loses a tooth

Jackson lost his first tooth today. We're not really sure where or when it happened. I just noticed it was gone while I was talking to him tonight. We looked around but couldn't find it anywhere. I think he must have swallowed it sometime. I can't believe he's big enough to lose teeth. And I can't believe that he likely swallowed his first lost tooth. How am I supposed to scrapbook it now? Just kidding :)

This Means...

Jordan likes to make actions mean things. He'll say "when I do this it means (whatever he wants it to mean.)" And then he'll do the action expecting us do respond accordingly. Here's some examples:

He said Coleman makes this face sometimes. So it's now the Colie-face.

At first it meant "I love you" but then it changed to "I love Colie."

Clapping his hands with his arms stretched out...

"I want a hug"

Opening and closing his mouth...

"I want a kiss."

Pointing in his cup...

"I want more water."

Making this crazy face...

"I love you."