Christmas Updates

There are just too many things going on during the Christmas season to make blogging one of my last priorities....but now that the year is almost done, I am trying to update so I don't forget anything.

Mariah had her Christmas concert and did a wonderful job. She was playing the part of a snowman and was too cute thanks to the art teacher who helped to paint her face.

Wyatt also had a Christmas concert for band. His was combined with Amanda's so that night was a LONG one for us. We started the concert at 6 and weren't home until after 9. But there was an hour long intermission in there as they were thinking the first part of the concert would be longer. Next time the instructors said that there wouldn't be that long of a break. I am going to have to sit through the entire concert from now until Amanda graduates as they combine the middle school band concerts with the high schools....which makes for a long night for the rest of the family as they don't seem to enjoy listening to the bands as much as I do.

Henry is getting bigger every day and much to my dismay he found his thumb....this isn't a very good picture, but I knew it was probably going to happen. This is one baby that is too much like his oldest sister. She wouldn't take a pacifier either and was sucking her thumb by 3 months. Henry absolutely refuses to take a pacifier and will start gagging if you make him try too many times. The funny thing is that he won't even suck on my finger (he used to earlier). He has found his fist and occasionally will find the thumb.....but it is happening more and more often. These are just a few pictures that are too cute not to share.

We had Christmas and the kids enjoyed the holiday. We have started waiting longer to put up the tree.....it has sort of become a tradition now that we wait to put up the tree until the kids are officially on their break from school. We were really blessed to have a Secret Santa drop off some presents for the kids. We are grateful to them as they made Christmas just a little sweeter for the kids. Somehow the Santa knew the deepest wishes for my kids and came through.

We are gearing up for the New Year. We know we are getting old as we have started a tradition of ringing in the New Year on New York's time. This way we don't stay up so late!