Merry Christmas

We had such a wonderful Christmas this year and feel so blessed! Santa actually stopped by our house early and we opened gifts on Friday morning. Gavin was so much fun this year. We loved watching him get so excited about opening all his presents and showing them off and helping Wyatt open his gifts as well. We got to hang around our house on Friday and let the boys play with their new toys and then headed up to Iowa Saturday morning. We enjoyed an amazing church service at Hope and then spent the rest of the night at my parents’ house with my grandparents and aunt/uncle and cousins playing games and eating lots and lots of food. We opened more presents Sunday morning and then headed to Ryan’s parents to celebrate and have dinner with his parents and several of his uncles and aunt and cousin. It's a short work week for us and then we are heading back up to Iowa again to celebrate Christmas/New Years with my Great Grandpa and all my grandpa’s side of the family. We are looking forward to seeing everyone and are so thankful that we still get to have this dinner and spend time with my Great Grandpa who turned 96 this year. Below are a few fun pictures from Christmas. You can see more from the past month in the December album on Picasa.

Wyatt also turned 11 months on Saturday. It’s hard to believe this little guy is going to be one soon. He is crawling on his hands and knees all over the place and pulling up on everything. Gavin is definitely adjusting to this new skill as Wyatt wants to be in on everything he is doing but so far Gavin has done really well sharing his toys and dealing with the invasion of his space. Wyatt loves to dance and will rock back and forth and bounce anytime he hears music. He is all over the place and rarely sits still for long! He still loves loves loves being able to eat real food and because of this has given up drinking most of his bottles so luckily it doesn’t seem like it will be too hard to get rid of them all together. He’s also been super drooly these days and now has both his bottom teeth and his top two teeth just poked through. He likes to babble and screech but doesn’t say many real words yet other than dada. We have a busy month coming up planning two birthday parties and working on potty training with Gavin. He’s doing really well at school but has kind of given up all together at home so I think I’m going to try the 3 day potty training and see how that works since he is so close. I think he’s definitely taking after his dad on this one since he was at least 3 ½ before he was potty trained and would tell his mom at the store that she still needed to buy diapers :). Gavin is the exact same way because he can talk through everything like telling us that once he starts going potty he can go to preschool with Charlie and Braden his two bestest friends but is just too stubborn to actually want to do it yet. We will see! Hoping to have him potty trained before his birthday. It would be so nice to not have to buy formula or 2 sets of diapers anymore!!

Can’t believe we almost have a 3 years old and a 1 year old! This year has just flown by!