Ice skating

Today Scott and Jaxson went to the family and friends ice skating day at the Cedar Park Center. Since Uncle Steve works there the boys were lucky enough to go to the event. How cool is that to not only get to skate where the Texas Stars play, but they also got to skate with the players today. Oh and to add to awesomeness...Santa was there on the ice too! Hockey with the big man in red...hello Jaxson in heaven!!

Santa 2012

How cute are these two!! Bailey was not in the greatest mood...which is why she is holding a bag of Cheerios. No need to have a melt down over a bag if Cheerios when you are about to see the big man in red :)

Ten Months Old!

Happy Ten Months to our beautiful Bailey!

This spunky little girl is becoming less and less of a baby each and every day! I look at the last 10 months and can barely remember what it was like to NOT have her around. Bailey is such a blessing!

That big smile and kissable cheeks just makes you melt! This past month has been filled with teething..which brings a LOT of drool! How does one drool that much...yuck! Four teeth are coming in all at the same time...its brutal...especially for her! This morning it looks like one of the top front teeth is peeking through the skin and the others you can see white lines right at the skin. She's not a fan of me trying to look in there so its still a little bit of a mystery.

Standing is something new. While its not a regular daily event, she will do it if she's distracted enough. It's funny to watch her suddenly realize what's happening and drop to the ground in excitement.

Crawling is her favorite thing...and she's fast! She's pretty much into everything you can imagine and does not want to be held most of the time. Her attention span to anything is pretty short- except when it comes to her brother. She can sit and watch him and play with him for longer than any expensive toy we have in this house. And we are most certainly blessed in that he LOVES his sister and loves to play with her!

We are really looking forward to Christmas this year with both of the kids and creating new memories with our perfectly complete little family! As the months turn into days as we approach her one year birthday I am soaking in the sweet moments with our precious little girl! Happy 10 months sweetness, we love you!

Standing Alone

Today Bailey started standing all by herself!

Reindeer Run

Yesterday we did the Reindeer Run in Round Rock. The City of Round Rock opened up a new Tour of Lights...kind of a Round Rock version of the trail of lights. The only way you can see the 2 million Christmas lights is by car- unless you do the Reindeer Run. We decorated the wagon with Christmas lights and made Jaxson's bike glow with glow sticks.

We thought we'd just do the quick kids 1k since we had the bike and wagon- but after the 1k is when we realized we only got to get right up to the lights, not actually go through them.

So after we crossed the finish line we lined back up to go out again...for the full 5k...that's over 3 miles..with a wagon and a bike..yeah so that's when we started planning what we'd do differently NEXT year :)

Jaxson was quite the trooper, he did great on his bike and kept up with the flow. Bailey was DONE with the wagon! She wanted to eat the Christmas lights...yes Christmas lights in the mouth DO make your cheeks light up...ok that's funny stuff! So I ended up carrying her for a good portion of the walk, and Scott carried the bike for a good portion of the walk too!

 

We didn't quite make it all the way to the end, but certainly did more than half of it...that's a lot of walking for these two! Despite our lack of great planning for the event it was a lot of fun and we made great memories with the kids.

Busy...busy

Our Elf sure has been busy this week

Georgetown Christmas Stroll

We had such a great time at the Georgetown Christmas Stroll today. There was more stuff to do and food to eat than we had time for- but the kids walked away and said they had a blast so that's all that matters! Our sweet friends the Raines met us to join in the fun- how adorable is this line up of cuties!!

I'm not sure what it is about this event and the first day of December...but this is the second time we've gone to this and walked away with a sunburn. Yikes it was warm!! The kids laughed and had a blast waiting for the parade to start.

When the parade finally started they were right there to take it in.

Can you see the nails on this little horse, how funny is that!

The parade was a blast! Next year I hope we can stay longer...oh and eat more too...so much to pick from :)