Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve with my immediate family. First we stopped to see Grandma Barb and open presents from her. Hayden got 2 HUGE sacks of presents which he loved. He was so polite and kept telling her Thank You and was so excited. He was the best present opener. He loved his vacuum best probably followed by the pirate ship. He also got to help Amelia open her gifts. Time will tell what Amelia likes.



Later we all had dinner at my sisters house. The kids had fun playing together. Hayden loved opening presents and giving them. He got some more trucks so he was excited. Amelia enjoyed eating meatballs and chicken. Amelia got a small singing kitchen from Ryan which she loves.

We got our official family picture this year. Last year was the first time in a long time that we did not.


And one of just the cousins...(ignore the tv glare)



Hayden was so excited when we got home. He wanted to play with his presents. I told him he could pick one and play for 5 minutes b/c it was late. Of course he picked his present from Ryan that needed built. I said no. He cried. But eventually he calmed down and said to me. Ok Santa will build it for me! (That didn't happen by the way and he remembered late the next day and was mad!)
So he clamed down and we put out some milk and cookies for Santa. Hayden wanted Santa to have chocolate milk. That was funny to us b/c Hayden hates chocolate milk.



The rest of the pictures:

9 Months

Amelia at 9 months:

Is almost 29 inches long and almost 20 lbs. She is very long but thin with a tiny head and tiny features.

Has 4 teeth. She has been sick most of this month from it.

Can Climb the stairs. She is a fast crawler and scoots on furniture too.

Dances to music.

Obsessed with getting in the bathroom. She once got in and put her hand in Hayden's stream of pee!

Has had some real food: mashed potatoes, pasta, chicken, etc.

Likes to steal Brady's pacifier

Loves to look out our big window... just like Hayden did.

Likes to be upside down. Doesn't like to be thrown in the air.

Shakes her head no at us a lot

If you tell her no she will look at you and laugh.

loves smoothies. She attacks us for them.

Cries when you put her in her car seat

Wears 12 month clothes

Still doesn't have a lot of hair. What she does have is very dark.

Likes to play on our bed with Hayden.

Loves the Ipad, computer, and phone. She gets a high pitched squeal for them. She can work the Ipad.

Takes her socks off and eats them.

If you give her a play car she will make "car" noises. Its cute.

Loves bread.

Can be hard to feed. She has to have something to play with/keep her hands occupied.

Is still my smiley happy little girl, but is also very serious now too.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! We hope that you have a great holiday. To our family and friends far away... We miss you!

Here is what we have been up to this holiday season...

Got Amelia her first Christmas photo:




We took the kids to my soccer banquet:


Eating candy from our hershey kiss advent calendar from the Darbous family:

I may have to make some of these for people next year. Too cute.

Decorated mini trees in the kids room from Grandma Barb.

Ugh those lips. I hate this bratty face he is making lately. I always tell him I am going to rip those lips off!

Got a grandkid Christmas picture for Mom...




Went to Mike's Church Christmas Party and the kids got the see Santa. Amelia is one of 14 babies born within a month or so of each other! Here is a picture of a bunch of them on the couch.



Amelia loves babies and was so excited to sit with all of the kids on the couch. She kept squealing in delight. She was the biggest kid and the only mobile one. So I stuffed her in the crevis of the couch so she would sit for the picture for at least a few seconds. As I was putting her on the couch a bunch of women kept commenting on how huge she was! And the reason she has no shirt or tights on underneath her outfit was b/c she pooped thru them right before the picture of course. I did have extra clothes for her but they were boy pj's and I didn't want her to wear that for the picture.

Went to South Hills Village to get our Ipad fixed. Hayden and Amelia rode the train. They loved it.


Decorated the tree...


Mailed out our Christmas card. See the photo below... Ha ha.

Opened gifts that came in the mail from Nana and Papaw...



One day while shopping we saw Santa outside. Hayden wanted to see him and talk to him (which never happens) so we stopped. Turns out if you made a donation to Childrens Hospital you got to ride in a horse and carriage with Santa. It was pretty cool. Too bad I didn't have a coat on b/c I hate having them on in the store. So I froze my butt off waiting in line with Hayden.


Hayden was a little upset that the horse wouldn't say "neigh" for him.




Some misc pics: