Cookies

Last night was our annual Christmas cookie night.  Brad brought this tradition from his childhood and I have come to love it!  It just wouldn’t be Christmas without making over 5 dozen sugar cookies and decorating them.  I so enjoy giving them to neighbors and sharing some of our talented cookie decorating skills.  There is definitely an art form to decorating cookies!  Anyway, Allison has enjoyed this tradition since she could walk and this year she was really into it.  She wanted lots and lots of flour to roll her dough in and always needed the rolling pin on hand.  We cut out mittens, angels, Christmas trees, gingerbread men, snowflakes and cupcakes (for Jesus’ birthday).  Allison and Will waited so patiently for the cookies to cook and cool so that they could decorate them and of course eat some.  Allison was sweet and made a cookie for most of the family members.  As the Christmas music played in the background, I tried to soak up the moment.  I love the stage Allison and Will are in and I never want to forget how special this time is.

 

The finished product!  I think we made around 8 dozen.

 

2 years ago.  Boy, Allison has changed and now we have Brother!     

Birthdays, Birthdays and more Birthdays

   In November and the first part of December, we have celebrated Allison's 4th birthday, Brad's 31st birthday and my 31st birthday.  It's a good thing our anniversary isn't until April 24th, something to celebrate in the Spring. Oh, but wait, Will's birthday is April 23rd!

Anyway,  Allison had her birthday a Pump it up.  This was the first year she was very specific as to the type of party she wanted (theme), where it was to be, and who was to be invited.  The party went great and below are some pictures from the big day.

Disney Princess theme party

Allison and Jiggs examining presents

Allison and Will have really started to love eachother.  They play very well together.  Here Allison is thanking her brother for her Snow White doll birthday gift. So sweet!

          

We gave Allison a soccer ball and net.  She was so excited!

Poor Brad's birthday fell on Thanksgiving, so all his birthday pics have a turkey in them!

Colds

Well, it has been way too long since my last post and as I was rocking Will to sleep tonight, I had a blog moment.  Like most people, when my kids are sick, I wish I could take the place for them.  Bear the 103 fevers, bear the breathing treatments, bear the bad colds.  Over the last 24 hours, Will has come down with a pretty severe cold.  He can't breathe well because he is so congested and he has a fever.  Boo hoo!  I hate this but am glad it is happening before Christmas.  Anyway, you never know when those memorable moments will strike.

As I held and rocked Will, trying to get him to relax and fall asleep he kept looking up at me talking in his own way , touching my hair and putting his fingers in my mouth (guess we know who is going to have the cold next!!!)  I love those moments when all he wants to do is snuggle.  I cherish them all knowing, that one day he will big too big to want his Mom hugging all over him.  So, he has been saying buggies (aka buggers) for awhile to describe when he has a stuffy nose, but tonight, clear as a bell, he looked up at me all congested and barely able to breathe and said in the cutest voice Bu-gars.  A pretty disgusting topic I know, but it was so cute how he said it.  I wish I could have bottled up his little voice at that moment. You can definitely tell I am crazy about my little man.  I mean only a Mommy would think their son saying buggers in a baby voice is cute and blog worthy! I sure hope my baby boy feels better soon. I can hear his congested cough all the way in the kitchen.