Christmas Eve

For Christmas Eve we let the kids open their Christmas jammies that they get every year and then we headed to my parents' house for the day. Ashlee and her family were there for some of the day. We played games and decorated cookies. My mom cooked a fabulous dinner, as always, and then we read the real Christmas story and sang carols. The kids (and us...) were so excited it was finally Christmas Eve.

Coleman wore this cute Santa costume. He's looks pretty cute in it, don't you think?

Kenzie opening her Christmas jammies. Aren't they cute? I think they're the best pants I've made so far. I was going to try to make shirts this year, but I didn't have enough fabric to even attempt to make them. But I found some cute Grinch shirts that matched really well.

Jackson decorating a star.

Jordan looking cute.

Kenzie concentrating pretty hard on decorating her tree.

Jordan decorating a cookie.

Cute Colie.

Jordan got to his the pinata first this year because Mackenzie was to scared to at the beginning.

Jackson taking his turn.

After seeing that it wasn't so scary Kenzie gave it a try.

Getting the candy.

Coleman watching the action.

Here's some picture of the kids in their Christmas jammies. There are several, but I couldn't narrow it down any further :)

Jordan with his arms around Jack and Kenzie. Jordan and Kenzie are looking at Coleman. Jackson did amazing during these pictures. I think for everyone he is looking at the camera and smiling. That never happens!

Jordan being funny.

Kenzie being cute and funny.

The best one!

Kenzie being funny again.

Funny faces.

A new pose. Jordan's face cracks me up.

Cute Coleman again.

Grandpa playing with Coleman so we could pack up and get ready to head home.

Gingerbread Houses

In December we made gingerbread houses. Each of the 3 older kids and Doug made one. I was the helper.

Jackson loved decorating his house. It was his idea to put the flat graham cracker on top of the slanted roof. He loves doing holiday things.

Colie enjoyed watching.

Kenzie decorated for a little while, then just wanted to eat the candy. Especially the suckers.

Jordan also loved making his house. He liked Jack's idea of putting the top piece on and so wanted to add it to his house too. He wanted to stay nice and warm by wearing a snow suit over his church clothes. Or maybe he just wanted to keep his church clothes clean...

Doug tried to make interlocking pieces by biting pieces of each graham cracker so they would fit inside of each other. It didn't work though. So he had to start over with non-bitten pieces.

Jordan working hard.

Jordan's house.

Kenzie's house.

Doug's house.

Jackson's house.

First Foods

We gave Coleman his first solid food today. We decided to go with some avocado instead of rice cereal which we gave to our other kids. He seemed to like it okay. He looked a little confused, but ate the food okay without spitting much of it out. Jackson was my photographer for the event and took a ton of pictures. I narrowed it down, but there are still a lot. I just love the different facial expressions he made.

Trying to grab the spoon.

Jordan started trying to get in the pictures with him. We had to send him away because he started putting his face and hands in front of Colie.

Avocado face.

Happy to have real food!

6 Months Old

Coleman is already 6 months! Can you believe it? We definitely can't. He's getting so big so fast.

Here's some info about him these days:
He still loves being held and hates being alone.
When I go near him when he's sad he gets happy, but if I don't pick him up he starts crying.
He tries to put everything he gets his hands on his mouth.
He loves bath time.
He doesn't like laying down for very long.
He likes when the tv is on.
We sometimes still have a hard time getting him to sleep at night.
He's very smiley.
He likes when his brothers and sister jump.
He also likes when they play with and talk to him.
He loves playing with his feet and trying to eat them.
He likes to give and get kisses.
He loves being tickled.
As of about 2 weeks ago he weighed about 13.4 lbs (about 3rd percentile) and I think 24 inches (maybe around the 10th percentile?)
He doesn't sit or roll from his back to his tummy yet. But he's getting closer to accomplishing both.
He's still super cute.

Snowflake Lane

We went to Snowflake Lane on Thursday. We met my parents for dinner and then my mom came outside with us to Snowflake Lane. We had a blast, as always. Jackson was really excited when it started snowing and tried catching the snow. Jordan also was trying to catch the snow. Kenzie loved dancing to the music.


Kenzie and the Fairy Princess.

Kenzie and grandma.

Kenzie watching the snow.

Jack trying to catch the snow.

Cool Faces

I did Jackson and Jordan's hair into a mohawk and I wanted to take a picture of them. Jackson posed and I asked him why he was making the face he was for and he said it was his cool face. So we had fun making cool faces...