January week one

Isaac learned to put his circle shape in the block, he is very meticulous about skills like this and loves to put things in and take things out. This entertained him for a good 20 minutes!


After our short little snow following Christmas we had some unusually warm weather that we took full advantage of as did all the kids in the neighborhood.  Peter was dirty from head to toe!

January 5, 2012

 Isaac LOVED the slide, it was so cute because be would sit at the top and lean forward to make himself go and then just smile the whole way down.  Peter thought it was so funny to see his brother slide and Isaac thought it was funny to crash into his brother at the bottom.

 January marked a change in time for our church.  We had been meeting at 9:30 which was perfect, but then we switched to 12:30 and as anyone with little children can imagine, it is a nightmare.  This is what happened to Peter a few minutes after coming home...I felt so bad having to wake him up for dinner with only about a 45 minute nap, but I knew if I didn't he would be up all night. (Also notice his socks, we couldn't find his church socks so he was sporting his blue skull socks with his suit)

January 8, 2012

As I have mentioned before, Peter thinks he is a snowman and here he is being a snowman.  One day I hope to actually get him singing the snowman song or Frosty but he always stops once I pull out the camera or I am just too slow and he is done before I start....but I am determined...

 

Isaac Turns 1

Yesterday was Isaac's first birthday-I can barely believe a year has gone by already! How our life has changed in the past year.  He is such a sweet addition to our life and one that fills us with laughter.  Peter was not quite sure what to do with his first birthday cake, but Isaac had no such inhibitions...he kept trying to take his cupcake from me while we were singing to him.

 And spent no time destroying it until he realized that it was edible.

 Peter enjoying the birthday treats as well!

I thought that Isaac would finally get his two top teeth by his birthday but he is still only sporting his bottom two.  This past month he has really picked up on signing and can now sign "more", "eat/drink", "down", "goodnight", "all done", "up", "lights"  and wave hi/goodbye.  He can also say "MaMa, DaDa, uh-oh and banana and apple.  He is becoming quite the talker, and boy does he let you know when he wants something or if something is not going his way.  Even though he and Peter still have their little tiffs, he still thinks his big brother is so much fun and loves to make him laugh or to laugh at him.  He is the best little cuddler and charms everyone that he meets.  He is a bit of a picky eater and lets you know that by tasting it and then throwing his food on the floor.  I sure it will not be long before he will be like Peter and have more important things to do than hang with mom, so I am enjoying this time as much as I can.  We love you Isaac, Happy Birthday!

Christmas Day

After opening our stockings we got ready for Church, here is our attempt at getting both boys to stay in once place long enough for a picture...they were so handsome in their new suits!

Peter with his frosty the snowman Rubik cube...(Santa thought it might be easier than the real ones, but it definitely is not...at least he likes turning it around)

Mommy and her little charmer.

After Church, naps and lunch we hit up opening presents.  Isaac's favorite part was tearing and trying to eat all the paper.  I was a little worried that "Santa" had not brought enough presents after having Christmas with both grandparents our gifts seemed pretty meager.  But to be honest, Peter would have been happy with just his tie ...

Cute new apron from my sister in law.

Alan opening his present from Peter, which was as you guested a tie...he was so cute in the store picking it out.  He was very insistent that dad needed a red tie for Christmas with diamonds...and think he was just as excited as Alan to open it.

Our adorable little present.

Look at that intensity...

Decmeber in review...part 2

We tried to keep the treat making simple this year since we had so much going on and we ended up making Carmel apples which is one of our favorites.  We tried a new  combination this year of caramel, pretzels and chocolate-it was pretty yummy if I do say so.  We also tried candied apples, which were beautiful but very hard to eat.  Peter sure did enjoy trying to though!

We spent the few days prior to Christmas at my parents house where the kiddos has a sugar filled afternoon decorating sugar cookies (and mostly licking off the frosting and sprinkles).

 Peter and Isaac got new Sunday suits and you would have thought that Peter was in heaven, he had to put it on immediately.  The cousins also enjoyed jumping off of the new art easel they received and going on wagon rides with Alan.

We spent Christmas Eve night and Christmas day at home.  It was so fun to create those memories with our children, learning about the birth of our Savior and his love for us and the fun childhood part of presents and Santa.  Peter was so excited to leave cookies out for Santa and carrots for the reindeer.  One of the first things he said when he woke up Christmas day was "Santa is here" and we had to go look and see if he made a visit.  He had been waiting for months to get his train tie from Santa and was not disappointed to see it laying beside his stocking. 

Here is our little OCD man, he lined up every item in his stocking on the couch as he pulled it out...until Isaac found it of course.

A few days after Christmas we got our first snow!  Peter has really been into snowmen this year and has watched Frosty the Snowman I don't know how many times,  he even started referring to himself as a snowman as he goes around quoting the movie and singing the song.  So we of course had to make a snowman even if it was a tiny little guy.

Here he is sporting his helmet while drawing on his easel...he kept telling Alan "thank you daddy" over and over for half an hour after he put it together for him...it has been a great outlet for his creativity.