Cutie Baby

I can't seem to blog consistently these days, at all. But here are a few super cute pictures from the last couple of weeks that were just needing to be blogged.

Dali loves a bath. She splashes and splashes. I was trying to catch her face all scrunched up, but she's not gonna stop splashing!
She's eating some rice puffs these days, and food chunks every once in a while like banana and potato.




She also loves a good apple!

Christmas time

Christmas time has come and gone, we're back to the daily grind. Here are some of the highlights of our Christmas season.

Miss Christmas here :)




The one time it snowed for more than 3 minutes. The kids were so excited they ran outside to play and the girls took a book of Christmas songs so they could carol. It only snowed for an hour or so and there was no accumulation, but I gotta say, it did a lot to brighten our Christmas spirit.Making Jesus' birthday cake on Christmas Eve



The kids had been working on a play to perform on Christmas Eve at Uncle Gabe's house. They had posters, snacks planned and they all knew their parts. As it typically goes with holidays, we got sick and ended up not being able to travel for the festivities in Iowa, so they performed for an audience of 3 at home.
Christmas eve present of pj's

The big girls and the little girls both had their rooms redecorated for their "big" Christmas present. So after many of the other presents were open we took a break and headed up for the unveiling.
The big girls room is done up in shades of pink and black. lots of fluff, silkyness and a few zebra stripes thrown in. Any time I could throw in the Eiffel tower too, that was a big hit.

The little girls room is just everything girly that could be chalked in there.

present glee

Dali being hypnotized by one of the boys laser toys from the stockings.

Her favorite present was this piano from Sophia.

reading her new book


about a week later we were finally ready for some travel, so we were able to go do our Christmas celebration with the Buckners. I had a few helpers making dinner the first night.


the present scene


the baby scene




The boys room had the computer that many gathered round. And desks that the girls took over to draw on. Grammy got all the kids art supply cases, so there was much drawing happening.


There was even a drawing contest. Angie, Pop and I were designated the judges, so we ended up having to create a prize for each contestant, how could we possibly just pick a winner?!





snuggling to sleep

Before leaving we celebrated Mia's 6th birthday and Ari's 5th birthday

Thanksgiving

This is our second year of doing Thanksgiving day with the Hopper side at a waterpark. It's a pretty fun day, if not traditional. We started the day with a big lunch out then headed to the hotel and got ready for a day of swimming. Since it was Thanksgiving day, there isn't much of a crowd at the pool which makes it much more enjoyable.



Kole and Ari had their cool floaty swim suits again, they are fabulous.

this trip and all the waterplay is Grandma and Grandpa's Christmas gift to all the kids and they LOVE it.




Xander and Sophia coming down the big slide.



Dalia even got in on the swimming, she liked it!

Lots of random cuteness

In an attempt to keep bloggy motivated, here are some cutesie pics of my cutesie kids.
I have so very many pictures that look like this:
Dalia loves her baby dolls. This is one I knit for her before we knew who she was. She likes it a lot, and I love how well she's matching it in this picture.

This is the typical Ari picture pose, good thing it's a cute one.
Millions of pictures that look like this too. Ari loves her sister!
mustache fun :)


a little school thrown in. Here's some prek math going on


and some big girl math. We were learning money math


as part of our money math we played restaurant the waiters had to add money and make change. I like Sophia's "in character" face, and Ari's good waitress impression.and will end with more baby cuteness. Ari loves to sing to Dali, all the time. And Dali loves to her it, and sing back.