The Nutcracker

It was a weekend of kids Christmas activities! We started off Friday afternoon with a trip to a fun Art & Gym Santa party. Lots of running around jumping and tumbling, lots of painting and drawing and some snuggles with Santa.

My little artists!

Seeing Santa.

Girls love him, Court not so much!

Then we went to drop off the girls for their first trip to the Nutcracker with Honey, Gigi & Aunt Kristin. They made it through most of it then dozed off at the end. Tyler says her favorite part was the bear and Harper loved the mice.

Off to the Nutcracker!

So excited!!!

Tyler, Honey & Harper

Meanwhile Court enjoyed a weekend with just mom & dad and had lots of one on one time without his attention bearing sissies around. It was just what he needed and just what Mommy needed to get everything ready for our annual Cookies & Milk party. Pictures to come from that... still recovering!

4 Year Old Stats

Our two FOUR year olds had a great check up today.

Harper (L), the spunky one

Tyler (R) the chill one

The girls are both in about the 25th% for height and weight and perfectly healthy. Tyler weighs about a pound more and Harper is about half an inch taller but I think both these measurements may be a little skewed due to being wiggle worms.

Harper is 30.4 lbs and 39" tall. Tyler is 31.2lbs and 38.5" tall.

Their eye sight was great and Tyler impressed the doctor by writing her whole name- TYLER. Harper has the "H" down and a few other letters so she shyly showed off a few of her skills too.

Both screamed louder than I have ever heard with their shots today (and I did not even give them all of them so not looking forward to going back in a few weeks for the rest!) But they were quick to cheer up with some stickers.

Happy 4.

Cabin Fever!!!

All of the partying we have done has gotten all of us a little run down... everyone has a tiny cold so we have been mostly housebound since Monday.... A trip to the doctor to confirm it is just a cold at the start of the week and then a brief attempt at school yesterday for the girls led to a call to pick them up due to uncontrollable bloody noses. That ended with a trip to the ENT where we barely escaped a cauterized nose vessel (not fun for a 4 year old so we are attempting alternatives!) So we decided to just chill at home ALL day! Mom got all the Christmas cards addressed and started the homemade favors for our annual Cookies & Milk party this weekend. The kids caught up on lots of Christmas movies and enjoyed a day in pj's! It was just what we needed but certainly has caused a bit of cabin fever! Cannot wait to escape in the morning.

Here are the girls hanging out in our new Laundry room sink.

Yes we are weird & earthy.

But it is going to be oh so cool!

Someone was not happy about the entrapment!

Get me outta here.

And an update on the house blog... yep, on hold until after the Holidays! Stay tuned...

Party Time!!!

So the day of the party finally arrived! We had two very excited little girls ready to celebrate turning 4 with their friends at their Art themed pajama party. The girls are obsessed with art... probably spend about 2+ hours a day drawing and painting, cutting and gluing ~ so having the party at an art studio was an easy choice. It was at 9am so we decided to serve sprinkle doughnuts and Tyler & Harper insisted that everyone wear pj's! It was fun, easy, low key and we all enjoyed a morning all about the girls.

Happy 4 Harper!

Happy 4 Tyler!

All of their pj clad buddies begin to arrive and start decorating their birthday banners!

A birthday book to start off the activities.

Sweet Little Bro!

Drawing, their favorite.

The party!

Birthday gals with Ebby.

Lexy & Mary Brooks decorating their magic wands.

Katie with her crown!

Court loved doing art.

Cousin Banks arrived, just in time for...

Birthday pink sprinkle cupcakes!!!

Happy Birthday to you!

Make a wish!!!

Cute Carson.

Sweet Wells.

Happy Birthday Tyler & Harper!

Here we go...

So, what a week! A very eventful week. A class party, decorating the house for Christmas, surviving the new "attitude" that comes with being almost 4 (times 2), oh and they tore our house down....

Happy 4!

Party #2 at school

Tyler

Mommy and her 4 year olds!

Harper

Now onto decorating the tree... We started Sunday night and 5 days later I would say we are nearly finished. I love getting everything decorated early so we all have the whole month to enjoy the Christmas magic!

Court hard at work.

The girls were so excited to help this year.

Up next getting a few inches trimmed off the little man's hair. I was trying so hard to go with the cool surfer dude long locks but with his preppy demeanor we decided at 22 months he did not need shoulder link hair so off it went!

I just love that little profile!

I'm cool, train in hand.

And finally the house started. Yes, the house we moved out of THREE months ago is just now starting. But we are grateful, excited and ready for the next 8 months to breeze by so we are back in our house!!!

Moving Day, late August 2011

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Friday, December 2, 2011

The kids & Dad at our old front door.

The part still standing in the back was the hold up with permitting therefore it is staying.

Sure wish it went up as fast as it went down!

House blog to come when I can find the time.

(Email me if you know me & want the link!)

Now onto Party #3 & #4 this weekend....

Oh Christmas Tree!

We pulled out the Christmas outfits (even though it was 70 degrees) on Sunday and hit up the Christmas Tree lot to pick out our special tree. The girls zoomed through the lot like wild elves and Court looked stunned the whole time. It did not take long to find the perfect tree and we are already busy decorating for Christmas around here!

The Whites

Christmas 2011

Sweet sisters

Being silly with Ebby

Oh Christmas Tree!

Riding in the sleigh.

The sweetest boy I know...

Court kissing on the reindeer.

Its beginning to look a LOT like Christmas!

Birthday Fun, Take 1!

Thanksgiving weekend always marks the start of Tyler & Harper's birthday week. We have a family BBQ lunch with our out of town relatives and the joy of getting a year older begins to beam on the girls faces. These two love a party so they are pretty exited that they will get to celebrate turning 4, four times this week.

Happy Birthday to You & You!

Making a WISH!

Opening gifts.

Think Tyler is a little excited?

Harper happily tearing through some gifts.

And drumroll... bikes from Honey & Pop!

Cruising on their Pinkalicious bikes.

Harper

Tyler

Practice makes perfect!

They still need a little help to get going but they are catching on quickly.

Our little girls are growing up.