Here are Kelsey and Aaron with their big sister and little brother shirts on! We must have taken 40 photos to try to get one where they are both looking at the camera, and still, this is the best we can do.
Here is Aaron smiling! He is all smiles most of the time, and is a relatively happy baby. If we could just get the days and the nights straight, everything would be perfect.
Aaron is a lot more wide-awake now when he is up- typically for 3 hours at a time, and he loves to goo and ga at Kelsey, Mommy and Daddy. His eyes are still blue, and he is getting bigger by the day.
Kelsey and I went to see Ma at the beginning of December. You can see the one sticker on her arm- what you don't see are the 50 other stickers that Kelsey covered her in, from toes to waist. I am sure that Ma had to have someone help her to take them all off, but Kelsey had a great time doing it.
Aaron's hair tends to naturally go into a mohawk. Not certain ,but I am assuming this means he is going to be trouble in the future :)
Here are Kelsey, Aaron and Gabby on Christmas Eve. I think it is a good think we got a picture of them together then, all looking happy. Somehow we did not manage to get one of the three kids together all Christmas Day, or the rest of the week. We had a great Christmas Eve at Gigi's house.
Aaron doesn't look too troubled by the attention here :)
The girls above, with crackers, and below with whoopie pies. Surprising that they didn't end up sick after all the treats- every time one of them cruised by me, they had different things in their hands to eat, and none of those were vegetables.
Wow! I think that Santa may have overdone the presents this year!
The two girls woke up in the morning and ran for the presents. They reacted the way that we thought they would- Kelsey opened up each present, and wanted to play with it, then clean it up and put it away where it belonged. She took so long opening her gifts that that we opened two on New Year's Day, and Mommy has half her birthday shopping done with presents that got pulled away for later. Gabby on the other hand opened all her gifts, most of Aaron's, and then kept asking where the rest were! They were so much fun on Christmas! They loved each and every gift they received.
Kelsey giving Quinsi his Christmas bone. The tongue on Qunisi says it all! (Note- the bone was gone within 5 minutes).
Kelsey playing dress-up in her princess clothes she got from Santa!
Aaron, sleeping through it all. Poor guy was up at 5, then slept right through all the present opening when Kelsey and Gabby got up at 7. Christmas morning was lots of fun though, the whole family was at our house for presents- Alex, Kristen & Gabby from Florida, Sammy from Spain, Jamie from Georgia, Uncle Chris, and both sets of Grandparents. They all watched the kids open gifts and play with the new toys from Santa.
Kelsey's favorite gift! She had asked for a camera from Santa, and was lucky enough to get one. She is quite the little photographer- she chases everyone around yelling "Say Cheese" and snapping away. The camera takes surprisingly good pictures, and she got the hang of the thing quicker than I would have thought- she can turn it on and off, review the pictures and snap away without any of our help.
Big smiles from Aaron as we get into the car seat to head to Christmas dinners-one at Uncle Timmy's and one at Meme's.
The day after Christmas we got a nice snowstorm. The gilrs bundled up and went out to play in the snow and make snowmen and go sledding. Here they are getting ready. The camera didn't make it outside- maybe next storm it will.
And a picture of Gigi too!
