2 months

How in the world is he 2 months already? It has flown but at the same time it seems like he has been a part of the family forever. He fits in very nicely. Such a sweet and easy baby still. I hope it stays that way. He loves to be talked to and just stares so deeply in your eyes it's amazing. It always brings tears of happiness to my eyes. I just love him so. He coos and smiles like crazy. He still snorts and yesterday I snorted back at him and he came so close to laughing at that. Still no true laugh yet. He strongly dislikes belly time. We try to sneak it in where ever we can. No amount of toys to look at or people down there talking to him seem to work. The best place he does it is on our chests. He can hold his head up and turn it all around. He's always got the cutest mohawk you've ever seen. Love his hair. So far he's not really losing it. He is starting to get cradle crap so I am using a soft toothbrush to scrub at it at bath time. He brings his hands to his face and mouth all the time. He loves his mobile in his crib!!! He will stare at it for 15 minutes at a time it seems. We got out the play gym yesterday and he really seemed to like that. He's a great sleeper. Only usually up once a night but sometimes twice. When he is up he is only up for ten minutes. 5 to eat and 5 to burp although I never get a burp out of him. He still sleeps swaddled. I am going to have to work on breaking that soon. He likes his paci and the last 2 nights I have put him in his bed awake with his paci and he goes to sleep on his own!! We have all adjusted to him being here. So glad he is!! I can't imagine life without him. His big sisters are great to him and he just light up when they are around. He is about out of his 0-3 month clothes. They are getting too short for him but the 3-6 are pretty big. My girls were never out of their 0-3 month clothes before 3 months. Crazy boy that we love so!!!

fun weekend

I can't tell you the last time we spent an entire weekend just the 5 of us. It was awesome. We always always always have at least if not more than one thing planned with others, which is awesome too. I love the outside company and really love spending time with our friends. Thank goodness for them or I would not be sane, but once in a while it's so nice for it to just be us. Movie on friday (which is usually a family night for us), lazy Saturday morning followed by a trip to get our Christmas tree in the afternoon, playing in the snow, dinner, decorating and dance party Saturday night! Great day. On Sunday we played in the snow some more, family nap time and then decorated the tree that night. John's family did come over to help us with that. The girls had a blast getting lifted up to decorate the tree. The ornaments are actually pretty balanced. It is a beautiful tree!!!

snowman

Today we went outside to enjoy the snow (a joke of a snow by MI standards) but still very fun. Most of us had fun throwing snowballs at each other but not Camille. Once a hoarder, always a hoarder. She is destined to be on TLC's Hoarders show. Anyway Camille walked around holding her snowballs the whole time. She even put her 2 snowballs in one hand to help John build the snowman with her other hand. We all pitched in and built the best snowman. Nana a few years ago bought us a snowman kit. It is very cute. As we were trying to take our pics w/the the snowman we had to keep chasing Jack off as he was trying to steal our snowman's arms. In the end he won and our snowman is armless.

getting christmas tree

Yesterday we went to get our Christmas tree. I was able to talk John into cutting one down ourselves. It's the first time we have ever done that but my parents used to take us when we were little and it's one of my best memories. It's a tradition I wanted to start. We woke up to snow and it continued to snow so it was a perfect day. We bundled up and took off. When we got there I think John and I both had a quick "oh no" feeling. We by far had the youngest kids out there. It was a little "aggressive" as John put it. Maybe we were in a little over our heads with our bunch but we forged on and it turned out great. We picked out the perfect tree and John cut it down!! As I dragged the girls and carried Everett back to the tractor John had the tree. It was pretty darn cold by then and everyone else out there must have agreed bc there were a lot more people waiting for the tractor than should have fit. All with trees. We all squeezed on though and had a fun cozy less windy ride back. After that the kids and I went into the little shop for hot apple cider while John put the tree on the car. Santa was roaming around and as much as Av loved seeing Santa, Camille hated seeing Santa. She was pretty scared of him. After the cider we met John in the restaurant for pizza for all and wine for mom and dad. Somebody was in there singing and playing the guitar which Camille loved to dance to. Camille didn't want any pics of her taken yesterday as you can see. It was still a great day!!

stockings

Last year I bought us all matching stockings from Pottery Barn. I had everyone's name put on them and all December they hung and looked so pretty. After that holidays I bought one more stocking. A boy's stocking just in case. We had always planned on having one more child it just happened a lot sooner than we had planned. We hopped someday we would have a little boy so I got the stocking just in case. When I showed John the stocking he thought it was for Jack. heheheh Since our little boy was going to be a year or two off we got "Jack" put on the last stocking and put them away for the year. I had totally forgotten about it until I pulled them out last weekend. No stocking for E!!!! Of course pottery barn had changed the stockings so they didn't have any that matched. J saved the day and found the same stocking as Jack's on ebay and ordered it for me. We had it in 3 days and it was perfect. It is at the shop as we speak getting "Everett" on it. I can't wait until my 6 stockings are hanging from the fireplace!!!

The best night ever!!!

The 5 of us are sitting cuddled up in our big king bed watching The Polar Express movie as we speak. Life could not get any better than this. Little different than Friday nights of the past and I could not be happier about that. My fav 4 peeps in the whole wide world. I am a lucky girl!!!

ACE update

Camille is slightly afraid of ACE. heheheh She spotted him this morning, pointed him out to Av and then ran from his sight. Av was excited until she was picking on her sis and I said, "ACE are you seeing this?" She looked at me like I was a trader telling Santa on her. hehehe It's working so far!