Christmas 2020

Christmas came and went without much hoopla this year, as we decided not to travel anywhere what with the new baby and the pandemic. Elsie had 2 weeks off school so it was nice having her around to play with and enjoy the holidays. My parents came up the weekend after Christmas, and Mary and Hayden head come the week before so that was awesome!

I mostly just wanted to upload some pics, here you go: 

Baby's first christmas outfit, gift from Jillayne Koss.

Dad and Elsie making Spencer's specialty cookies, looks like they have a strawberry batch on the way.

Leo loves looking over the shoulder and being carried around, pretty good neck control though sometimes he just leans over to one direction without a care, good thing we are there to catch him!

Chrismas PJs! Leo looking for boob, Elsie holding her new Elsa barbie doll, she was not into the PJs like I thought she'd be.

Elsie is great at rolling the cookie dough in powdered sugar.

Playing on the new carpt

THANKS SANTA! New Barbie house with over 20 barbies and box fullll of accesories, clothes, furniture, vehicles, you name it!

Elsie picks out her own outfits these days :) And she is in LOVE with the sparkly Elsa shoes Santa got her.

Learning how to play Crazy 8s.

Always need a playdoh session when grandpa comes :)

Cookie decorating was lots of fun too :)

Happy Holidays, here's hoping 2021 is a great one!

Leo is 2 months old!

We just had Leo's 2 month checkup with doctor trias, and he's really been growing!  He now clocks in at 13 lb 11 oz (78 percentile) and 24.2 inches (92 percentile). Doctor said he's looking really fantastic, holds his head up well, smiles and is eating well so keep up the good work 😀 

 At 6 weeks he was 11.5 lb, so he really has grown in only 2 weeks! Hes pretty good about sleeping in crib and putting back to sleep, can put himself back to sleep which is the opposite of Elsie!  He's not so loving the swaddle these days as he's getting baby pudge so harder to get his legs to stay up like he likes. Might have to drop it soon anyways since he only has one swaddling sleep sack left to fit his long legs. Generally 3 hours or so sleep at nights between meals. Screaming less at dad so starting to get to know him. So that's great and I get a break too!  Already in 6 month clothes, lots of kicking and arms and baby noises, lots of looking around, holds head up pretty great now, lots of smiles, Some laughs but usually when no ones around and he's looking at the wall.

He's been having some tummy issues and the stinkiest farts ever! Going 6ish days between poops but lots of pee diapers so prob just growing fast and poop has farther to travel to get out. Dad is great at getting him to feel better and we can get him to stretch out his legs by tickling his thighs which is pretty cute. 

Likes baths, falling asleep on our shoulder,  kicking legs and smiling, when Elsie plays rattle and sings to me

Hates gas snc tummy pain, swaddling he's love hate, doesn't get to play outside cuz too cold

Elsie has been on break for 2 weeks from school and the holidays were great but she is looking forward to seeing her friends again and we are excited for some time to do computer work. 

She is living the imaginative play, she comes up with things like ready set action obstacle course, but also constantly ropes is into playing family by telling us our roles like mom, your the kid and I'm the mom, and then we carry on with what we were doing with our new role. Not really into Xmas movie since most have a scarry part, except frozen of course. 

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Elsie singing and making up her own song,  singing at the top of her lungs...

"I love my familyyyyy, i love my familyyyyy, I love my familyyyyy, especially meeeee!"