Monday, January 5, 2009

Random Snapshots of our life at Christmastime

MaryKate was so funny, this was the third picture we took and she made this face just to look silly. I love it!
Sara got this fisher price zoo from Nikolai and MaryKate at Christmas. She tries and tries to get on so she can go around in a circle just like the animals. It will be a sad day when she realizes she is just too big.

Santa brought Nikolai this HeroScape game... it's kind of like Dungeons and Dragons but geared for kids and we changed the rules so that it is even more like D&D. He has gotten me to play with him every spare minute since then so we keep it set up downstairs where we can go and play a round whenever we have a chance.

Sara makes the cutest faces. If you look really closely Haleigh and Haydan and half of Kora are in the background.



Nikolai helped me make cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve. MaryKate was sick (throwing up and fever, she was better by the next day thankfully) so Kora helped him out.


Sara loves the puppies. She tries to get in the cage with them or if we are cleaning the cage and they are in a laundry basket she tries to get in there with them. She likes to look at them and point. She'll be really soft and gentle then will pull them towards her to see what they taste like.



A HUGE milestone, Sara is climbing onto everything now and feels so proud that she can get way up high on the chairs all by herself.
Another adorable milestone, she discovered standing on her head. People think she falls and bonks her head all the time now but what she is really doing is this, wanting to see the world from a different perspective.

Nikolai is such a great big brother. He was cleaning his room and Sara followed him in (like she does no matter where he is going, she wants to follow him) he was trying to clean and keep her out of things that weren't safe for her and play all at the same time. When I took this he had finally came to me in exasperation and asked if I could PLEASE come get her.

This is MaryKate helping us decorate for Christmas. She has such a fun flair about her.

1 comment:

Diane Sparks said...

Fun! Such sweet pictures---all showing personalities galore! Happy New Year to you all!