Merry Christmas

This year for Christmas we tried to scale back on the crazy schedule and focus more on our family. We got the results we were looking for. I again made PJ"S for Russ' grand-kids (two for Matt), I think they all turned out super cute! I am getting better at the swearing thing, I mean sewing.

Santa must have thought we were good this year, among Matt's favorite things are green binoculars, digger toys, and lots of new books to read . Seth got games we all like to play, poor kid has to share already. As for Rob and myself Santa left a new skinny TV, we are enjoying it very much.

Over the last few days Kate and kids came up from Iowa for the holidays, Matt has been in cousin heaven. We all went to go see Puss In Boots at the cheap theater, cute movie. Other then that we have been laying low, enjoying new toys (thank goodness) and cleaning around the house after I had ignored it over Christmas.

We are looking forward to a fun new year filled with lots of adventures, both foreign and domestic.

Some Holiday Fun . . . . . .

A funny picture of Matt showing off his "Bony Tony"


Big Brother "helping" Seth open his gifts

Santa's little helpers


The family, the amazing Jeff, The Train and the look what I got

Seth: Two Months

Two months have gone by and it seam like a lifetime ago. I am getting better at juggling two kids and I am getting better about ignoring a baby cry while I make dinner.Seth is really getting big fast. Over the last month this is what he has been up to.

• He has started holding his head up but is still shaky with it so he sometimes headbutts my shoulder.
• He can keep his legs under him when he "stands" on them. He likes to think he is big.
• Loves talking to his older brother. I get those two together and sometimes they have conversations only those two understand. (Matt gets a kick out of it too).
• He started smiling a week before thanksgiving. How I have missed those toothless grins of babies.He just loves to smile and talk to anyone who will listen. But he wont smile for a camera (like dad) and it drives Grandma Moss crazy.
• He is such a good eater he is up to 12 pounds at the check in with the doc. (Little fatty)
• Thankfully getting 4-5 hours of sleep at a stretch at night and cat napping frequently during the day so I never get anything done.
• Still poops a lot but slowing down a little
• Received his baby blessing in a house full of people who love him.
• He has found his fist and likes sucking on it and staring at it. It is just the coolest thing.
  

He is really a good little baby and we are blessed to have him in our family.

At the BlessingTwo Months old


Goofing around

Seth: One Month

Seth will soon be 2 months old so I had better get this up. My fun sister in-law sent me month by month stickers I was excited to use them.


Seth is growing so fast! He no longer looks like the wrinkly old man he started out as. He got dry skin that pealed everywhere but soon it cleared up. he is definitely a pooper, he poops all the time! Loves to eat and snuggle up to mom. Not too much going on for month one. Just eat, sleep and poop, not always in that order. (No sleep for mom). He did get to go on a road trip to see Aunt Kate Uncle Chris and cousins. He was a good boy, mostly slept.

I had made a sign before I got the stickers.

Matt is a great big brother. I ruff lover to his little brother but he loves him very much.

Thankfull for my Village

This year for Thanksgiving Rob's sisters Cindy and Kate came home with their family's. We had a noisy group of 40 to share the holiday with (we were missing another 18). While we were enjoying having people we love close I had some time to think of what I am thankful for.

I am thankful for our good health and the opportunity we have. Also for our little family and I love my kids and husband. And I am very thankful for my village. . . . . .

They say it takes a village to raise a child, well I think it is true! I am so great full for those that help me guide my kids in the right direction and for the good influence they have. Many times have they taught Matt how to do things I wouldn't know how to teach, and taken him so Seth and I could catch up on sleep. My village has helped me find ways to parent and taught me in other ways, like sewing and cooking. My village is a fun village to get together and go visiting other states that I would be hesitant to do on my own. My village never hesitates to help me when I need it and I hope I can do the same for them.
I just want to say thank you to my village and let them know how much they mean to me. (You know who you are).

This was so funny I had to take pictures and tell everyone about it. The Other day I was feeding Seth and Matt was wondering about how and what and being 3 and asking all kinds of questions. I tried to tell him as close to the truth and keep it kid friendly so he understood.

A few days later I was feeding Seth (again) and Matt wanted to do it too. He went and got his doll and came to sit by me and had to take his shirt off so it would go better. With out prompting or anything he sits down and starts to feed and burp his doll. I yelled for Rob to grab the camera so we had some black mail for later.

He is just trying to fit in the new way of life. Too Funny!

First he tried the football hold.
Then the Cross cradle.

Then the burp. What a good little daddy.

Road trip

Matt, Seth and I all took an impromptu road trip to Iowa to see Rob's sister Kate. We took SueAnn and Rachael with us. They had moved there in the summer and I had wanted to go visit for a long time. We stayed a long weekend and while we were their Kate took us to go see some fun things. We went to a little zoo and had a pic nick and heard the lion roar and saw big elephants. And we saw dinosaurs.
Of course we had a train ride too, what a fun day.


This is little Clair Bear all bundled up. She is just so cute!


Another day we went to Molein Ill to see the John Deer Place to sit on and drive Tractors! Matt was in heaven!!!!! He ran from one to the next and didn't want to leave. They had an excavator simulator and that was the cats ass. Next time we go see Kate we will have to stay longer at the tractors and see more. It was fun to see you Kate and your family.

Practicing for later.


He is still my little guy.

He is all boy and doesn't want to paint his nails (*KEN*)

Happy Halloween

We had lots of fun for Halloween this year. I had asked Matt what he wanted to be for halloween and he said Peter Pan because he had a sward. So that is what he was, I put together some things to keep him warm and Dad found a sward. Grandma Moss helped make a Peter Pan hat to keep his head warm. It turned out perfect!


For Seth I had some onsies from when Matt was little, he didn't care one bit.


We had gone down to Palmyra like we always do ( I like their neighborhood better than mine) and had fun with cousins. Rob got the four wheeler and trailer and had fun pulling the kids around. It really was a bad weather day, cold and rainy. You wouldn't have know it by the way the kids were running from house to house. I stayed to hand out candy and to keep Seth warm.
SueAnn took some pictures for me and this is one of my faves.


He looks so little and meek next to the big skeleton. Till next year trick or treat