Here are the kiddos hanging out the other night before b-ball practice. Sheniah's first game is this Saturday - hopefully I will be able to get some pictures to post.
It is finally that time of year when we get out all our Christmas decorations! It is so exciting to get it all out and decorate the house and the tree, even though it is a lot of work...this year Sheniah and David had to do most of it as the little man was not feeling like participating in the festivities!Michael got to wear his adorable hat from Granimal again to go to the tree lot...
First we had to pick out the tree...
Here is Sheniah standing by "the winner"!
And here is Michael and me (thanks momma for the wrap!) walking through the tree lot...
Me and the kids...
And of course, a family self portrait (we are in front of the tree...but you can't tell that from the picture!)
Here is the tree strapped to the top of the car (okay, we are such dorks!)
Unfortunately, it got late and all we were able to get done the first night was setting up the tree and hanging the lights...I should say, all David and Sheniah got done was hanging the lights (I was tending to the little man!)
Here they are working on it...
The next day while Sheniah was at school Michael and daddy had some bonding time...
And it was also Michael's recheck appointment at the Dr's office. I get nervous every time we have to go...I knew he was growing well, but I wasn't sure if it was well enough.
Well - our little man is a little piglet! He weighed 11# even! I was so excited and the Dr was thrilled - he had gained nearly 3 pounds in a month, which is wonderful.
I knew he was small before, but I didn't know how small (for his age). I had noticed that the Dr's would never tell us what percentile Michael was in and I thought that was probably a good clue that he was pretty low. The Dr told us yesterday that he had been teetering from the 3rd to 5th percentile! That is really little!
Now, he is in the 25th percentile!
It was a great day!
When Sheniah got home she hung out with Michael while working on her homework so David and I could finish getting the decorations down from the attic.
Then it was time to hang the ornaments...Sheniah hung the first...
And then we all pitched in until they were all up. Finally, it was time to put the angel on the top of the tree. Sheniah has had the honor of doing this every year...usually David picks her up and she puts it on. However, this year she has just gotten too big, so we got her a stool...
She couldn't quite reach, though...so David had to do it...
Next year I am sure she will be tall enough to do it on her own again!
Finally, mom had sent a ton of presents in a large box filled with the styrofoam popcorn. One of my favorite pictures of Sheniah is on her 2nd Christmas (she was a year old) and her Mima and Poppa sent her a ton of presents in a large box with styrofoam popcorn in it and mom and J-Rod and I put her in the box.
So, to honor his big sister...we put Michael in the box! (David was unsure about this and then I said "Come on...we put him in a pumpkin for goodness sakes!" and then he agreed!) Michael was unsure about the whole situation...not quite old enough to smile big and drooly like Sheniah was in her picture, but what the heck...I think it is soooo cute anyway!
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