Week 88 and Week 201!

William is 88 weeks old and Emily is 201 weeks old.  We had a great Christmas and enjoyed Daddy being home all week with us!  It snowed twice, so we didn't really do a whole lot.  But Mommy and Daddy did get to enjoy a date night while Grammie and Pop Pop watched the kiddos!!  Here are a few moments of the week...

Soo...I guess you take too many pictures when your daughter says Mommy, look at this!  And I'm looking (through my camera) and I tell her I'm looking and she says, no with your regular face!!

William's phrase of the week "NO EVER".  He usually says it with a mad voice and really means it!  It's not just no, it's no ever!  He is saying a lot more phrases now and is putting a lot of things together.  He just keeps on going with his speech, it's crazy!!!!

Here are some pics of our last week of 2012!!!

Morning Snuggles

Sucking his thumb and grabbing his pillow case.  This is how he always goes to sleep.

Silly girl in her chair!

Snuggly boy loves his new slippers

A post playing in the snow snack!

Will didn't enjoy being out there AT ALL!  He wouldn't wear mittens and insisted on wearing his new Jets baseball cap, so he was cold and miserable.  Hence, no good snow pictures this time!!

In between sips of hot chocolate

88 weeks old

Will was napping and Emily let me do a little photo shoot with her.  It seems the pictures I love the exposure, focus, color, etc. she has a crazy face and the nice faces are when I mess something up!  Here are a few though!!

I even set up the tripod and took a picture of me!

Tripod fun!

Emily loved using the remote!!!

We even got one with Will when he woke up!!

I definitely need to pull out the tripod and play more often!!

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas celebration this year.  We started out on Christmas Eve at Gia and Pe Pa's house.  Then were home with plenty of visitors on Christmas.  It was so much fun this year.  Emily was so excited about everything and loved handing out and opening the gifts.  She was much faster than William and would then help him too.  He would open something and immediately want to play with it and no longer had an interest in ripping any more open!  His phrase did become "Rip it!" though. Here are some pics of our fun!

Say Cheese!  Eat Cheese!  Whatever!!

Present Time!  Look at those cute little elves!

She's on a mission.  Grab and go!!!

Look what I got!

Studying his package carefully

A fun gift for Pe Pa!

I think Gia likes this one!!

Fancy new laptop for Erin!!

And a refrigerator for Jamie

Checking out her princess couch from Aunt Jen!

It's a big one for Will too!!

Father and Son playing trucks

Happy Birthday Jesus

Trains with Uncle Jay

Santa came!!!

The first thing Will found was he Mickey Pez dispenser.  All he wanted to to was eat Pez and would not let go of the thing all morning!!

Emily finally enticed him over to open a present.

Presents!!

More presents!

There's nothing like a family game of Candyland!

Checking out his new truck.

Maddie and Annie can have birthday parties in style now!  A cake set!!!

Grammie gave Emily a copy of one of my favorite books as a kid.

And of course Macaroni and Cheese!!!

Anytime Grammie would ask what she wanted for Christmas she would say Macaroni and Cheese!!!

Playing with his trains

Christmas Mike

I've got my eye on you!!!

Pretty Girl

Fun in the hallway!

William LOVED his tie.  He would not take it off!!

Sorry Cris, but that's what you get for being silly!!

That's better!!

Pat and Noreen

Fire Chief Will!

The kiddie table!

Week 87 and Week 200!!!!

William is 87 Weeks old and Emily is 200 weeks old!!!  Wow,  those numbers are getting big!  William is officially 20 months old now and becoming more little boy and less baby each and every day! 

We are in getting ready for Christmas mode!!  Emily has had Christmas parties and her program at school.  She did a great job as shepherd and was shouting out the answers to all of the questions that were asked about the Christmas story.  We visited Santa and Emily was ok talking to him or standing next to me while I talked to him and would stand next to him for a picture, but had no desire to sit!  William, well, we're lucky we got him anywhere near the guy!  He didn't cry though, which is a step up from last year!!  Saturday was our Annual Cookie Day at Aunt Paula's house.  We had a great time baking, eating, crafting, and playing!!  We did all of our cleaning and last minute wrapping on Sunday to get ready for the next couple of days of fun! 

Here are some pics of our week leading up to Christmas!!!

My boy and his trains

Shepherd Emily holding up her sign!

Fun performing!!

Santa even came to visit at school!  This is as close as she would get!!

87 Weeks Old

Fun with lights

My sweet boy

 

Love him!

Sprinkle cookies!!

Brother and Sis

Aunt Lora's famous Snickerdoodles...William's favorite now too!!!

Helping Gia make the Fours

Grandma enjoying the day!

Cristina and Aunt Paula

Aunt Lora

Aunt Lora hard at work!

All 3 crazy aunts were wearing this shirt today!!