My very 1st.....

PIGTAILS!!

So they aren't the straightest or neatest, but you have one shot with her and she is DONE playing with her hair!

I cannot tell you how many times Levi said how cute, adorable, sweet, & cuddly Carrigan was after seeing her in her pigtails. He even got her out of her bed to sleep with him when she woke up fussy. But then, how could he resist when she was yelling from her crib, "DADA, PLEASE!!"
.....Although Daddy did compare his baby girl's hair-do to SHREK!!!

Santa & the Mrs.

Just a small tease! Many, many more to come!

Watch out ladies...

Gavin's got a new 'do' and is lookin' as handsome as ever!

(It was my first time using hair clippers and I can't believe his hair didn't come out a total disaster!)

Rub-a-dub-dub. Two kids in a tub

Talking at 13 months

Here is Carrigan showing off some of her words before bed the other night.

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Christmas Thief

It took me hours & hours of shopping to find just the right Christmas presents for the two hardest people to shop for in the entire world. My husband and mother. I finally did it though. I found them. HORRAY!

The weekend is over, Levi is at work, so it was the perfect time to bring in and wrap those perfect gifts.

However someone else thought the presents were pretty nice as well and stole them right out of the trunk of my car.

I suppose I should be thankful the robbers decided to leave the Christmas gifts for the kids. What a nice little thief.

I may be a wife and stay at home mom, but I'll bet I could knock that guy (or girl) down to the ground right now.

He must get this from his daddy...

This morning Gavin was "reading" a Farm book. He was going through the animals, saying what they are, then doing their sound. He then would spell each animal name.

It then dawned on me. Gavin can identify every single letter of the alphabet in upper-case AND lower-case.
He can also sing his ABC's with getting a couple wrong. I am trying to get it on video.

He can count and identify numbers 1-10. We are now working our way up to 20.

Does this not seem terribly impressive for a 2.4 year old?

I managed to get him saying his ABC's with me repeating. It was all he would give me!

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brrr... It's cold INside!

Early Wednesday morning (around 5:00 a.m.) the electricity went out. It was literally freezing outside. I was praying by the time we all were awake it would be back on.

Nope.

It was a cold morning and I kept thinking about how great it was that I had just gone grocery shopping the night before and there was everything sitting in a fridge that was getting warmer by the minute.

However Gavin, Carrigan and myself found it to be a rather fun morning! No cartoons to watch or Facebook to check, just time to play!

(Sometimes I feel as if I am the only mother who puts their kids to bed in mismatched jammies. )

Usually jumping off the arm of the couch is a big No-No, but sometimes you just have to be lighthearted about things!

HOWEVER when I learned Carrigan was now able to climb up on the arm of the couch too, the fun had to stop! Her hair is getting so long!

Hands down, the funniest part of my day was when I sat down to eat breakfast. Every mother knows that 'its too quiet in here, something must be wrong' feeling. I get up to find what my little nibblits (Levi hates that I call them that!) are up to, and all the sudden I hear......

Here we are!!!!

They are just too funny!! I don't know how they were cramming themselves in there together, but they kept shutting themselves in until I would yell, Where did Gavin & Carrigan go??? Then they'd pop out and laugh! They are so much fun!


Oh, and the power came back on at 8:40 a.m. The instant it came on, I excitedly raised my hand in the air and said, "Thank you, God!!" Gavin has lifted his hand several times today and exclaimed, "Thank You, God!" =)

Lookin Good Thanks to Grandma!

Levi's mom made this adorable sweater vest and got an adorable outfit to wear it with. Carrigan looks SO cute in it! She'll be wearing it to church Sunday! Thank you, Laura!

I love you

Gavin has been saying, "I love you" for a while now, but it has always been in response to our I love you's.

Yesterday while I was playing with Carrigan, Gavin scooted by on his train and said, "Bye Momma, I love you!"

Just in case I haven't said it in the past 5 minutes, I love you too, Bubbas.