Snow!

It started to snow yesterday as Willa and I were going to school, and she exclaimed, "This is the best day of my life!" School let out 2 hours early, so they had plenty of time to play in the white stuff.

They had a lot of fun playing with the neighbor's dog.




The dog especially loved following Willa around, licking her and stealing her gloves.



Don't worry, I warned Andrew about yellow snow.



I was too mean to take Christian out with them. Mostly because carrying him around these days really does a number on my back. Poor kid.

Crawling

By popular demand, here are pictures of mobile Christian.

He pretty much has this look on his face whenever he's crawling. He is loving being mobile.



Andrew and Willa love it too, and they get so excited for the end of the day when homework is done and they can play with him.



Andrew is the greatest babysitter. I actually love the evenings when homework and school are finished too, so Andrew can take over and play with the baby until bedtime. And Christian just worships Andrew.




One of the downsides to his being mobile is this. Wherever I am, Christian finds me and starts climbing up my legs. What can I say, he's my little buddy.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was a relaxed affair at our house this year. It was the first year in at least 4 years that we were on our own, without Brenda. Which means it was the first year in a while that I've had to do the cooking, hence the relaxed attitude. Oh yeah, it was also the 3rd year in a row that I've been pregnant for Thanksgiving, which is a little crazy. I'm looking forward to not being pregnant or having a baby on major holidays.

Andrew and Willa were fascinated with the turkey. I was a little afraid Willa was going to get her fingers chopped off while Casey was carving. She kept insisting that it wasn't a real turkey.




Andrew had his customary dinner of rolls and sweet potatoes. One of these years we'll get him to try the turkey!



At preschool Willa's class got to dress up as the pilgrims, while everyone else was the Indians. This was my 4th year at the preschool Thanksgiving feast, and I found myself getting a little nostalgic because it will be my last for a while.

Baby Dave and Baby Jane

When the kids were born they got these beautiful Madame Alexander dolls from Grammie and Papa. And because I didn't want them to get ruined, I put them away until they were older. I was digging through our "storage" last week and came across them, and decided that maybe they are old enough to take care of them now. Baby Dave and Baby Jane have become their favorite toys. Andrew sleeps with his baby, and even took it to school for show and tell last week. Thanks Grammie and Papa!

Laundry

Every week. Wash, fold, put away. Every week. I really hate laundry, especially now that cold weather is here. My laundry almost doubles. Complaining about it really helps, though.

1st Haircut

Willa has never had a haircut before. She loves her long hair, but it was getting to be problem to take care of so I've been trying to convince her for a few weeks that the time had come to get a trim.




I finally convinced her, and on Friday she woke up excited for the big haircut. She acted like a queen bee the whole time at the salon. She told them she wanted hair like Mommy's, which made my day.



Big times for a big girl!

Soccer

This was Willa's first season playing soccer, which means it was our first season of juggling multiple soccer games every Saturday. Today was our first week with no soccer, and I must admit that I was relieved.

Check out these game faces.




















Andrew got to play on a bigger field this year, and the boys and girls were on separate teams. He really improved this year.



Willa had a slightly more difficult time learning to play a team sport. I'll let the video of her first game tell the story.





Of course, the favorite part of the season is always the trophies.