christmas shopping!

A few months ago we exchanged gifts with my family and Grandma and Grandpa gave all of the grand kids a gift card to Target. A couple of weeks ago we took the kids to Target to pick out their own toys. They thought that it was great fun to go toy shopping and deciding just what they wanted. Ashton found the thing that he wanted right away, batman weapons. He was not about to change his mind, that is what he wanted. Ransom was a little harder to help. He goes from thing to thing and it all looks like fun. Here he is holding a doll and in the end he got a big truck that stores cars. That seemed fitting for him. I just picked out something for Tahlia, I hope she likes it! That was fun for everyone.

Just Chips, I thought

So the other day we were eating chips with lunch. They were there and the boys love chips. So Ashton had a few and then he says to me "these chips are full of flavor and texture." My oh my does he think he is on TV, maybe he watches too much food network. I was on the floor laughing. It was too cute.



Ashton also says some other things that just crack me up. He was so happy that Aunt Lisa had given him a "crisbee" for his birthday last month. Can you guess what he got for his birthday? Well, it was a Frisbee. Lisa was surprised too.
So while decorating for Christmas I hung up the stockings. Ashton has been fascinated by them. He loves to leave little surprises in the "socklings" just for us. It has been a lot of fun.
I would tell you of all the fun things that Ransom says but you really do not want to know that he always says "PSSSSSS, I pee you." Where did he get such a potty mouth and why is it that of all the things that he could be learning to say he chooses to say that?
Tahlia talks up a storm all day long. It has been pretty funny she says "dadada" all day. Of course I think that she is a genius and knows what she is saying. I am working on getting her to sign "more" now.

Graham Cracker Houses

Here are the graham cracker houses that we made with friends. There is Ashton's house with a front porch held up by "dead Santas." There is John's and Ransom's who is our little candy man, just ask him, he ate all the candy off before he left the table. Good thing Ashton used enough to share.

Treat Monster

Here is out treat monster! She is very picky about what she eats and when she eats. She always has been. There have been many times over the last nine months (I know it is hard to believe that she is 9 months old now) I have tried to give her a bottle because she is crying and she will not take it. So I will go about my business and 10 minutes later she is screaming and really wants to eat. Yes, that is my daughter, she has a mind of her own and will only do things if it was her idea first. But she loves little puffs she will eat them all day everyday. She doesn't just eat one at a time she will shovel them in and demand more and do it over again. Of course her brothers are more than willing to feed this habit. Too cute!
Here she is with two binkies. Yes two one for each hand and she has to taste test them constantly.

Trading pajamas!

The other night the boys thought that they should wear each others pajamas. Ransom started it of course. The crazy kids!

Christmas Spirit?

So, Wednesday evening we finally got around to decorating the tree. I really do not like to decorate for Christmas, I know go ahead and think Scrooge. I have my reasons, it is a lot of work to get everything out and find a home for it and put other stuff away just to do the reverse in a couple of weeks. So I have been lax about decorating the tree that had been here almost a week. Well Ashton bugged me enough and we got it done and sent the kids to bed for the night and then we went to bed very very tired. I have not been sleeping well. Well at 4:15am I woke up thinking that I had heard a crash and woke John up to see if he heard the crash and he of course said "No." I said then I told him "I think that the Christmas tree fell over!" Then I sent him to check, sure enough there it was on its side! So there we were at 4:30am redecorating the tree. I think that was just what I needed to get me in the Christmas Spirit. Decorating the tree the second time was not as painful as I thought. It was actually nice and relaxing.




Surprisingly only one ordainment broke. And all the kids slept through it.

On her Knees

Yeah! Tahlia got up on her knees a couple of weeks ago. I did not even know that she could. I was so suprised and excited. Now she is pushing her self backwards all over the place. It should not be too much longer before she is crawling.