The Noons came to visit!

The Noons came to town and dropped by the house.

Gwynn isn’t so sure about this guy yet.

J.P. playing  with one of Gwynn’s toys.

Gwynn showing him how to play.

Nate is posing for the picture and Luke is checking out the football game.

Daddy is making sure J.P. doesn’t try any funny business.

(whispering) “I can’t live without you. Move with me to Paris and we’ll start a new life together”

Gwynn has got cheesing for a picture down pat.

Down pat and then some.

Luke… not so much.

Acting silly…

Gwynn isn’t a big fan of bows, which is unfortunate because without them people think she’s a boy even if she’s wearing a pink shirt and pink shoes.

Today we went a little overboard.

“I look fabuloooooooous!”

Santa in our neighborhood!

The local fire department gets Santa to come by our neighborhood each year. We decided to take Gwynn over to check it out.

We nearly missed it as it was about a 1/2 mile walk to the intersection Santa stopped at.

Gwynn is just out of her mind excited.

“Can we go back now?”

Not much emotion out of Luke either.

Aunt Jennifer came to visit!

Aunt Jennifer came to Alabama for Christmas and spent her first night at our house visiting with her niece and nephew.

Baby overload.

Luke praying that Aunt Jennifer didn’t forget his presents.

Gwynn liked playing with Aunt Jennifer’s foam roller.

We know what to get her for Christmas next year.

Luke smiling for daddy.

Trying to mimic daddy’s faces.

…and we’re out.

Gwynn is planning on backpacking the Appalachian trail by herself this spring, so she’s training.

Mommy and the kiddos.

Polar Express Day!

The kids had Polar Express Day at daycare…they got to wear their pajamas.  Gwynn was very excited that she got to wear MO-MO!! (A.K.A. Elmo).

3 Months (Luke)

Luke is 3 months old. Somehow he seems older. We can’t even remember what it was like just to have one kid.

At three months …

• Luke keeps growing. We’re not sure how big he is, but he’s in mostly 6 month outfits now.
• He’s still in his swing. We swear by 4 months he’ll be in his crib.
• Luke is great about sleeping, he’ll go 8-10 hours almost every night. Sometimes he’ll move around a bit around 4 or 5am, but he’ll sleep on daddy’s chest when that happens to make it until we’re ready to get up.
• We take  two bottles to daycare, but Luke needs a bottle as soon as we get home. We’ll do 6 or 7 ounces for daycare and usually 6 ounces at home.
• He is quite the talker.
• We had a bit of a scare with a fever. One night Luke was  cranky (which is unusual) and it turned out he had a 102 fever. We went to the ER at Children’s Hospital at 12:30am and sat around for hours before being told they couldn’t do anything to and just go home and keep an eye on him. Not a fun night. We got back home at 8:00am.
• Luke rolled over right before he turned 3 months. Like Gwynn he went from stomach to belly first.
• We’ve moved to the tub for bathtime instead of the sink. He really enjoys it.
• Luke isn’t as big into his pacifier as Gwynn was. If he doesn’t have one he’ll just as soon suck on his fingers. It’s nice not to have to worry about constantly putting in a pacifier.

Vandiver Park

We decided to drive over to Vandiver Park, which is about 10 minutes from our house, but in the opposite direction from civilization.

It’s a nice park, though not very big. It’s out in the boonies so I doubt there are ever many people there.

Gwynn liked the swing.

Luke was unimpressed, as usual.

Gwynn enjoyed the slide, which is something we haven’t done with her before.

We had to keep a close eye on her while on the playground as there were several places she could lose her balance to jump 3-4 feet to the ground.

One of those aforementioned drops.

Gwynn was about 6 inches away from hitting her noggin.

Wandering around.

 

Just a bit of static.

Contemplating her next move.

Mommy and Gwynn posing.