Getting Ready....

We pulled out the Christmas boxes last weekend so that we could get started on all the decorations....Here are some of the kids messing with everything...We've had everything up and ready except the tree...We just did that yesterday.....

Kohen went to work with Daddy for a little while yesterday morning...So Kresee and I hung out and watched some Baby Einstein...She never gets to watch anything since Kohen always says its "his turn"....These are Kohen's PJ's from his first Christmas.....

When the boys got home, we pulled out the tree so we could be done with it....

Keeping Kresee entertained with "appropriate" ornaments was hard to do....She of course wanted the glass ones or the ones with hooks....Kohen never ever bothered our tree when he was this age...I have a feeling we won't be that lucky this year:)

Kohen placing the star at the top...It takes a ladder with Daddy holding him up high...Our tree is 10 foot tall!!...

Helping Daddy put some ornaments way up high....

Kresee played with the small vacuum while we put up the tree....

Kohen's branch of ornaments...He kept hanging all of this together...Daddy talked him into spreading them out.....

The semi-finished Christmas tree....

She is just so happy crawling around everywhere and getting into everything....

Those two bottom teeth can't be popping up anymore without poking through...I keep thinking anyday now, but have been saying that for a good 2 weeks now....

Santa Babies....

Kohen loved this Santa when he was a little baby....Well he still loves it.....This was the picture I used for our Christmas card that year....

Then I had to put Kohen's little Santa hat on Kresee...She hates things on her head, so I had to be quick about it....Funny how this picture below and the one right above are very similar in the way they are sitting and touching Santa:)

Thanksgiving Day

We had a great Thanksgiving....We ate lunch at Kerry's parents with his whole family......We let the boys play all afternoon....Then we headed to my Nana and Papa's around 5:45 and both kids zonked out on the way there....We ate some more and then headed home....

Are these not the cutest Turkey shirts ever??....Aunt Kay made these for the girls...They were so stinking adorable....

Waiting on Daddy to take their nightly showers and then off to bed.....

Prayers for Sketch

As you all know, I'm a huge animal lover....It breaks my heart to hear of something bad happening to any animal, especially a dog, and I don't even have to know the dog.....But today something awful happened to my mom's dog....Sketch has to be the most sweetest, loving, best dog in the world...And I even mean that compared to my precious Biskit.....My sister rescued him from the pound a few years ago knowing no one would take this big, black mean looking pitbull....She knew he would be euthanized....She had him neutered and had him boarded so that he may eventually be adopted...But he developed an infection from the neutering....I will never forget the day I had to go and get him...My sister called and said I needed to pick him up and take him to my mom's house...She was going to foster him until the infection cleared up....I was terrified of him...He looked vicious....I had not been around pitbulls....But he went to stay with my mom to heal and get better and he never left....That was several years ago....And we are all so very lucky and thankful to have him in our lives....He is a GREAT dog!!....But today he was shot in the face...He is still heavily sedated right now at the vet's where he will spend the next few days....He is going to live, but my heart is breaking....The bullet went underneath his eye and threw his skull and nasal cavity...We don't know how but it missed his brain tissue and spinal cord...It came out through his shoulder.....He looks like he had a stroke...His side of his face and eye is droopy...They aren't sure if he will be able to blink it...He might have breathing problems b/c of the damage to his sinus area....And he can't eat right now b/c everything is so swollen...He lost a lot of blood and when he breathes he gurgles like he is drowning in his blood....Oh, how I pray his esophagus is not damaged....I pray that he is really OK and lives a good life....I'm just so sad and upset and mad at this whole situation...This wonderful dog is in a lot of pain and he needs all the prayers he can get....So say a prayer for Sketch.....Say a prayer for my mom......

Thanksgiving Feast

Kohen had his Thanksgiving Feast at preschool today....It was a big day for the kids...All the moms and dads and some grandparents came to eat with their little one....Everyone brought finger foods and I was starving so it was all really good....Kohen made a precious placemat that I think was supposed to look like a turkey using his feet and hands...But he glued it all over the place...Still precious of course...Then each class had a display of some kind of artwork...Kohen's class was self-portraits...Very interesting!!!....

The family....

His beautiful turkey artwork....It was one of the kids bdays in his class, so he obviously ate a pink cupcake prior to the 11:00 lunch:0...So they had all kinds of goodies before noon today:)....

Some of the self-portraits....

Kohen's self-portrait....Some were actually pretty good....I'm thinking Kohen may not be an artist someday!!

One of his friends (Reid's) self-portrait....I definitely don't see art school in Reid's future either!!

Where to Begin....

We have a lot of stuff....Well Kohen has a lot of stuff....So much that if I didn't have this upstairs room, I would have no idea what to do with all of it....We were up there the 0ther night and I laughed when I sat Kresee down because she honestly has no idea where to begin...Everywhere she looks is toys and it's super exciting b/c none of it is hers which makes it even better....I did pull out a few things that she would enjoy but she didn't play with them too long....

Loving herself...

After Kresee takes her nightly shower with Daddy, I sit her up on our bathroom counter and blow-dry her hair and lotion her up....She just loves to sit there and look at herself.....

Kresee thinks that the baby in the mirror is the greatest....She loves kissing her and talking to her and hitting her and licking her....

Show 'N Tell

Kohen's preschool class has been doing what they call Sharing Time....Every Monday it's a new kid....And they went in alphabetical order by their first name....Kohen has been patiently waiting for a good 2 months now and today was finally his turn....He has sooooo been looking forward to this day....The day he was going to bring his big dinosaur and a dinosaur book for his teacher to read....Everytime I asked him, it was the dinosaur....Well up until about 2 weeks ago....So he changed his mind...Today he wore his OU football jersey, took his OU football helmet, and took 3 pictures from the OU game that we took him to back in September....It was cute and he was proud....And I was so thankful that both his teachers were there today to see his things that he was so excited about.....

Funny thing is that he kept trying to give me a mean football face...So I wouldn't take his picture.....If its not his mean football face, its his cheesy squint my eyes smile....I don't know what he is doing here....But I do love how I gave him his helmet and he put it to his side and squatted down on his knees...He is going to know exactly how to pose when he takes football pictures someday....

But then I hid behind my camera and then stuck my head to the side and said "uhhh---booo" like I do with Kresee and I get this....Guess I just need to do my baby sounds to get him to smile....At least I now know this!!!.....

There's No Other Place She Would Rather Be....

That would be in the big middle of Kohen's things.......Now that Kresee has been on the move....Her main goal is to go whereever Kohen is....And even if he isn't around, she heads straight to his toys....We have our room divided (sort of)....All her stuff is on one side and Kohen's toys are in the corner by the back door....No matter where we put her, she heads to his side of the room....Last night, Kohen was watching football tapes of when Daddy was playing for the Coyotes in the living room so she had access to all his football players and she had the best time....And her favorite things are his shoes or his cups....

I really, really think she is trying to get a tooth...I swear I can see it down underneath her gums...But she really won't let me get a good look...She has started clicking her tongue on that bottom gum...I think it's bothering her.....