Dry Lucky Charms, in which only the marshmallows will be picked out and eaten, are totally a real snack, right?
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A warning: There are 143 pictures in this post. Yes, really, 143. You now have my permission to skip this post and check back in a few days for something new!
I decided to do a little project where, for one day, I took pictures of my daily life, the things I do, the places I go, things like that. I thought it might be interesting to check back on this in a few years to be reminded of how things were at this exact moment in my life.
These pictures were all taken on November 28th, 2011. I captured my life in all of it’s everyday-ness, all the ordinary, normal things I do day in and day out, and then a few things that were special for this day. Like decorating the Christmas tree. We had put the Christmas tree up after Thanksgiving, but we hadn’t decorated it yet. Nate, Matt, and I got to do that after Will went to bed.
I also captured my morning with the boys, Nate’s green Christmas lights strung in his room, coffee, some household chores, the making of bread and scrambled eggs, the boys and all their playtimes, a little boy who wants to know if he’s grown bigger yet, some errands, lunch, nap time, a tantrum by Will over some frustration or perceived wrongdoing, more errands, bath time, dinner, and then decorating the Christmas tree. Taking all these pictures and then editing them was quite the task, but I’m so glad I did it. Things seem to be changing daily around here, so I’m so happy I have this record of this one day.
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I know everybody is done with Christmas and ready to move on (I know all the stores are, for sure, because the few places where we went shopping the day after Christmas already had the Christmas stuff down and the Valentine’s Day stuff up!), but I wanted to post some pictures of our Christmas morning. I didn’t take as many pictures as I would like, and pretty much stopped altogether once all our family started arriving, but I did get a few of us first thing Christmas morning.
We had such a nice Christmas, and I’m pretty sure both boys had a blast! We are lucky to live close to most of our family, and even luckier that everyone was willing to come over to our house for Christmas! It was very nice not having to worry about packing both kids up and traveling around. We instead all stayed home, the boys played, and we had different family members stopping off all throughout the day…perfect!
2011 was a wonderful Christmas for us!
Earlier this month Nate and I baked some cookies which he then decorated with Granny (my mom).
Nate also got to visit Santa at the YMCA (Santa didn’t arrive until after Will’s bedtime, so he missed out on this one.)
But Will was most definitely there for this visit with Santa!
At the Christmas Eve service at church all the kids got to dress up like a person or animal from the nativity story. Nate is dressed as a donkey (he is in the back, near the middle).
The boys with Grandpa.
What a merry Christmas we all had!!
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This was our third attempt at seeing Santa and getting a picture…I’m so glad we didn’t give up, because yesterday the third time was the charm!
Merry Christmas!
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Nate found a Halloween cookie cutter and wanted to make some cookies. I told him that that was for Halloween, but that we could get some Christmas cookie cutters. He had a little bit of a hard time with the phrase “cookie cutters”:
(FYI: You may have to turn the volume up a little bit, because you can hear me pretty well, but it’s kind of hard to hear Nate. Also, wow…sorry the video is so shaky! Part of it was that I was trying to keep from giggling, but still, sorry!)
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So Will is now 14 months old, and he’s still not walking. This is surprising to me for a few reason: 1. He knows how to walk, he just chooses not to. (Please see video evidence below. This was recorded yesterday at the play area in the mall.) 2. Nate started walking right when he turned a year old.
Now, I know you aren’t supposed to compare your children…yada, yada, yada…but still, Nate was walking by now. When people ask how old Nate was when he started walking I say that he learned to walk the week of his first birthday. He took his first steps one day, took a few more the next day, and by the third or fourth day he was walking. Completely. And once he started walking he didn’t go back to crawling.
Compare this with Will: Will took his first steps about three months ago, right after he turned 11 months old. He’s going to start walking! Here he goes! And then…nothing. He didn’t take any more steps for weeks. And then he kind of started cruising and holding onto furniture, but he still wouldn’t let go and take any more steps. Then he would kind of oblige and take a few steps if you stood him up and then held your arms out. But that was it, only a few steps.
So this went on for about three months. Within the last week or two he has been walking more often, in that he will walk from one piece of furniture to the next, or even go from crawling, stand up, and walk a little. But if he falls, forget it, he’s done with the walking and he will just stick to crawling for a while. This is so different from Nate who once he knew how to walk, he wanted to walk. Even if he fell he would stand up and keep on walking. But not Will. Crawling is faster and easier, and by golly, that is just his preferred method of transportation.
But really, he needs to start walking soon. That boy is heavy. Really, really heavy. And momma’s arms could use a break…
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