Kitty!!

Stephen LOVES bitty kitty


She must love him too because she let him push her around grandma and grandpa's house in this chair!

This is what he does when you tell him to say cheese

Trying to be good, we told him Santa's watching!

More cookies

Stephen goes to a Montessori school now so we decided to make some cookies for his teachers.

He couldn't stop eating them though

While they baked he practiced feeding himself with a spoon

Yogurt, messy, but good

Nicole is here!

Our good friend Nicole is here all the way from Alaska to visit!!
We went out to dinner and there was a playground for the kids. Stephen and Nicole (or Hot Tottie as we call her) had a blast catching up. She hasn't seen him since he was about 6 weeks old!


They played on slides
and little roller coasters

and trucks of courseWhat? Nicole's not staying??!!!

Cookies!!

Stephen and I went over to Meredith's house for our second annual cookie baking fun!

Kelly and Cameron hard at work

Stephen made friends with Meredith's dog Scoobie

This is my view when I look down(33 weeks pregnant)

Ahhh there he is, cookie face!

Breakfast with Santa!!

We did the coolest thing this weekend. We went with grandpa down to the aquarium and had breakfast with Santa!
Santa and his elf were actually in the fish tank!


It was hard to eat with all of the fish everywhere


It was too much, Stephen had to run around and see all of the cool fish

Some of them were huge!

and some were small

Stephen had such a great time!
He got to meet Santa and he wasn't even scared!! (though he does look a little annoyed)

Christmas tree time!

Stephen and grandpa find the perfect tree

Time to decorate (and a wardrobe change)

Stephen got Phoebe decorated all by himself!

Best pals

Baby shower

Note to self:
Small boys don't enjoy baby showers.
Stephen spent the entire time running from me like this. and this

and knocking things off tables like this

Finally I caught him!
Yikes...me and Sara, the showeree. She's due the same time I am and looks fabulous!

Little drummer boy

or is it deep sea diver?
Who cares, drums are fun!

Christmas parade

We went to the worlds lamest parade. We still managed to have a good time though.

This was literally the parade!

Oh wait, Santa came by on a fire truck. Stephen did love that.

They at least lit a big Christmas tree so all was not lost

and we had fun at dinner after. Look how greasy Stephen got his dad

It was actually chilly that night too so Stephen had to bundle up.

Good times

Catching up!

So I've been the worst blogger ever lately and I have a lot of catching up to do!!

On Thanksgiving morning we took some goodies to the nurses that helped my dad in the hospital, unfortunetly this is my only shot of that...

Afterwards Stephen helped stuff celery.

What a difference a year makes! This is Stephen last year helping me do the same thing.

Ready to eat!

Trying to escape

it's getting harder and harder to take a nice family photo