Walking Man

He still prefers the speed of crawling but Little Man is walking!

 

Sneaky

There is a certain type of quiet that just means there is trouble happening. Eleanor is wonderful at this type of sneaky trouble and on Tuesday it took the form of sitting under the dining room table and quietly snipping off her beautiful hair. She has been so good with scissors up to this point but it is a lesson they all have to learn for themselves I guess. As I was cutting the rest of her hair off she kept saying "I want long hair." A bit late for that my dear. She looks really cute with her short hair and everyone keeps telling her so. Hopefully all of the compliments will not tempt her to try the sneaky scissor caper again.

First Birthday

We are all moved and settled in our rental so I have time to sit down and do a new post. 

Here are a couple pictures of Sullivan's first birthday. (I can't believe he is one.) He thoroughly enjoyed his cupcake. He took his first steps on February 1st, which was our last day in our house on Alder. 

Update

I am really behind on my blog of late. Here are some pictures of Christmas! Eleanor got a new scooter from Santa for Christmas.

And Penelope got a new bike from Santa, which is how she broke her wrist the day after Christmas. :) She has to wear the brace for her wrist 1 more week.

Aaron and I got the girls a HUGE doll house. Can you tell that it is taller than Eleanor? And you can play from all sides. We got the idea from Ma'am when she told me that she got the girls some dollhouse size dolls for Christmas. Thanks Ma'am for helping with this moment!

Sullivan slept through most of the unwrapping of presents. This guy needs his sleep! But he was able to open his gifts a little later. Fun stuff.

Aaron and I got some good presents too but our biggest present was selling our house and our land within a week of each other. Woo Hoo! We don't have a set place to move to yet, which is kind of stressful since we have to be out of our house by February 10th, but we have something that is pending. We are going to rent until the end of August and then we will be buying a nice house that we have had our eyes on for awhile. More on that later. :)

Sullivan turned 1 on January 5th! I can't believe how fast his first year went. He is the most wonderful baby. He is so happy and will play by himself for long periods of time. He loves to play with balls and cars and tractors and, if there is nothing blocking the stairs, he goes for them at full speed, hoping to make it to the top before Mom catches him. He loves to be outside and we had such a mild December and first half of January that we were able to spend some time outside with him.

I had to get a picture of this. He fell off of the step up to the shed and just tucked and rolled and then stayed there, stunned. It was hilarious!

Family Pictures

Thanks to our wonderful friend, Lisa, we now have new family pictures. It was REALLY cold outside so the photo shoot only lasted about 5 minutes but I think we got some great shots anyway. Thanks Lisa!