Pigtails!
Dottie has enough hair for pigtails now!! These are her first set, done by Daddy.
To fill out this otherwise very short blog post, two more pictures.
A new favorite pastime, climbing on the bench in Mom and Dad's room. Each kid is wearing a favorite accessory, Douglas in one of his three favorite hats and Dottie in her sparkly purple sandals.
Here's what Douglas looks like when mom says, "Let me see your teeth!"
Liebster Award
Thanks to Ryan at The Ramblings of Mrs. Hargrave for giving our little blog the Liebster award, reserved for small blogs like this with less than 200 followers. In return I'm to pay it forward and link to my favorite five blogs with less than 200 followers.
My fave five are, in no particular order:
Our Little Online Corner: The Sorensen family's witty adventures with two of the world's most photogenic children.
Harbor Cottage: Anthony and Kelsey rock the lives of newlyweds in college.
The Snow Family: Life in Midland can be awesome when you have a set of matching sons.
One Lucky Charms: Charm's smart, poignant, and TOO TRUE musings on the life of an LDS SAHM.
Doodled Observations: No words, just awesome doodles by my friend. I LOVE THEM. I want to print them all on t-shirts and wear them every day.
Learning to Play Together
Douglas has never been especially social, so his recent desire to play one on one with Dottie has been really pleasing to watch. Considering how much he did not like her when she came home from the hospital, I wasn't sure this day would ever come!
Some recent activities:
Making faces in the bathroom mirror
Opening and shutting windows
Drum circle in the living room. Notice the haircut? Douglas got that immediately after I saw that funky chunk of bangs in the picture above. He wears a hat 90% of the time, so I hadn't realized how funny it was growing in before.
Sharing snacks
Not pictured: Flashlight party, chasing the dogs, randomly running around wildly, playing cars when Dot is in the mood (this was the first time Douglas got really interested in playing with her,) and occasionally trying to out-tantrum each other.
In case you don't believe me that he didn't used to like her.
Christmas Eve/Day 2011
On Christmas Eve we spent time with the Brian and Kendra McMullin and the Tom and Kellie Bogardus families. The food, mediterranean cuisine, was fantastic, and the kids had such a blast. For the live nativity, Douglas was a shepherd and Dottie was the angel.
Little Shepherd Boy
Angel with a Plug
Missing from this scene is the cat, Cooper, as baby Jesus.
The shepherd spent a lot of time putting Linus into an SUV.
The grumpy angel wasn't too interested.
Christmas morning was a funny affair because Douglas was NOT excited to be woken up early without the benefit of pancakes. Eventually he sort of got excited but not really. The big Santa present we opened before church was a play kitchen Ryan and I built for the kids. (Read: Ryan built, Sarah painted.)
As the grown-ups disappeared to get dressed for church, we realized it got awfully quiet in the living room and assumed the kids were digging into presents. Nope! They were taking ornaments and candy canes off the tree, which they realized was finally free of its gate.
Timer family pictures are epic.
After church we came home and opened more gifts, which Douglas was much more happy to do on a full stomach and mostly awake.
He liked Dot's new dolly and kept saying, "Baby!" while he "helped" her open it.
His favorite present of the morning, a model Mustang from Santa.
Ryan showing off one of his new flags for his classroom.
There are a lot more pictures of presents being opened and played with, but you get the idea. We spent the afternoon with our friends the Harrisons eating WAY too much junk food while the kids showed off new toys. The evening was full of phone calls and Skypes to friends and family far away. Duggle opened his next favorite present, a new hat from Beck and Leo that he hasn't taken off since.
It was a fun fun weekend!
Hat + Car = HAPPY
Hope everyone had as wonderful a Christmas as we did!
I Love These Kids!
I cannot wait for Christmas morning with my two little munchkins. Douglas gets a little more about what's going on, though not entirely, and Dot loves to rip wrapping paper to tiny pieces. It's going to be so much fun!!
Last year we had a teeny, tiny, micro-Dot who just slept on our laps while Douglas obsessively played as long as he could with every single toy. Isn't it amazing how much little kids and babies change in a year??
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