December 10th-24th 2013

The title of this post is a date, I am aware of that.  That is because between getting home from California and it being Christmas was completely crazy. It went so fast and there was so much to do and accomplish.  

Birthday party for Papa

Putting up the Christmas tree

Sending out Christmas cards

AHHH!!!! (this is how I felt most of the month)

Making a gingerbread house

Skiing!!!

hot chocolate in the lodge

Dressed for the Christmas concert at school

Making candies. This was so much easier this year with the kids helping. They loved opening all the rolos for me.

We painted a canvas for our wall. We couldn't find anything big enough for the space that was affordable so we saw an idea on Pinterest and just made our own.  

 

New carpet to match the new decor

 Christmas cards all hung

Presents ready for Christmas morning

Audrey's first dance recital

Audrey has been taking dance classes at daycare.  Today was her first dance recital.  I was so excited to see her but didn't know if she'd actually get out there and do it.  I was afraid she'd have a bad case of stage fright.  She definitely had a little of that but she still did so good.  We were so proud of her.  I was in tears seeing my little girl out there. She's growing up so fast!

They had the girls wear their halloween costumes for the recital.  Audrey is wearing part of hers, she's going to be Audrey Hepburn.

After the show, Colin(and daddy) bought Audrey some flowers to tell her good job and how proud we were of her. 

BUSY, Daycare for Audrey

Busy, that is the word that describes this week, and as I assume, many weeks to come. I was busy when I was home on maternity leave trying to keep up with the house, dinner, and laundry in between time with the kids. Now, I'm back to work and we still have all that stuff to do. It's hard to fit everything in. My evenings are full of washing bottles/pumping supplies, preparing bottles for the next day, and packing bags all while trying to keep the house together and get some time spent with the kids. Oh, did I mention....I would like to fit in some exercise time also!?

Needless to say it has been crazy at our house. Hopefully as we all get in a routine and get used to me being at work it will all get easier.


Audrey is doing alright at daycare. Every time I walk in the building I get tons of comments on how cute she is and how much hair she has. The first day I picked her up her teacher said "she is the easiest baby ever". Today's comment was "she has the CUTEST clothes". However, she's having sleep issues. She's not taking very consistent or long naps at daycare yet. Plus she is now getting up at 630, when she was getting up at 8-9. I guess I should have prepared her better for the early wake time. Yesterday she took 6 naps that were between 20-40 minutes each. Before this week she was doing 3, with a catnap before bed. So now we are going to work on getting her bedtime a little bit earlier so she's getting enough sleep at night and see if that helps her start to figure out this new schedule.

Colin and Audrey get dropped off in the same room in the morning because they get there so early. Within the hour Colin switches to his room.

Here is Colin showing his sister the ropes at daycare.