Decorating for Christmas!

Well, I'm a little late posting, but we started preparing for Christmas, last Sunday. We went and picked out a Christmas Tree (we will always have a real tree b/c Mark LOVES them) and set up the Dicken's Village from Dept 56. The Dicken's Village is Mark's baby and he loves to have it all set up. It was my family's tradition, but it's a good thing that he likes it or I probably wouldn't set it up every year. The tree is one of the nicest trees we've ever had. As of today, it is still soft and super green. We'll see what it's like in a month! I bought the kids all matching outfits from Gap Outlet, and we put them on for the occasion. Enjoy!

Michael at 8 months....a week late!

Well, Michael has made some big changes in a month. At 8 months of age he:

• is fully mobile in the crawling position, but it won't be long until he figures out how to walk



• is loving cheerios and any other cereal type food that he can feed himself



• has 2 teeth on the bottom that are growing in nicely!



• is just the sweetest little guy (unless he is alone in bed) - see below



• is happy moving from toy to toy on the main level and LOVES to climb stairs



• is living in a gated community (most of the time) unless we choose to watch him climb the stairs



• is not happy being laid down to go to sleep and usually cries with seperation



• loves his siblings but especially his sister because she sings and entertains as needed

I'll add a few photos from our outing on Sunday to purchase the tree and during the village set up. He was so happy!