christmas '09

we had a fantastic christmas this year! the last couple years have really been stressful on me trying to figure out christmas and running around all crazy like trying to get stuff done and chris really helped me this year to just relax and enjoy christmas and that is exactly what we did. we were able to wake up at 9:00 and get all ready and then go get the kids up. mylie was not exactly pleased with having to wake up, even when we told her santa had come...she rolled away from us so we couldn't reach her and said "i don't want santa, i want to sleep." it is so much fun having a 2 1/2 year old...she keeps us laughing. but we were all very SURPRISED this year. i had no idea what to expect but chris always pulls through. mylie helped shay open all of her gifts too...she was having a blast with everything.

we then had uncle trav and his family over for some christmas breakfast. colston was sick so he and lindsey didn't come. we skyped grammy and papa fitch in argentina and had some christmas fun with them too.

we then went over and had christmas with grammy mann and everyone and those were good times too. grandpa mann came over and showed us his hand from burning it on the stove while helping grandma so nurse sharon came to the rescue with the diligent help from the best nurses assistant ever...ME! so that took quite a while and really we just hung out and enjoyed christmas while relaxing.

it was a great year looking back and we have been so blessed.*CLASSIC*

mom's new recliner!!! WAHOO

mylie said shay needed to play a game

mylie's laptop...

we disguised dad's present...we said his wii was for Mylie so he wouldn't peek...

matching aprons

savvy & my talking to grammy and papa

lyza and shay playing

Grandpa's Hand... Burnt on the stove...

christmas eve

well this year for christmas eve, we kept it very low key. we hung out at our house almost all day and relaxed and enjoyed being together. later that night we went to visit the cowan clan who had come into town and headed down to peaks for their annual ice skating. it was fun to watch all the kiddies just play and have a good time. we then went to grammy mann's and had some finger food goodness and a little program by chris. the girls got their matching jammies to sleep in for christmas. have i mentioned, i love having girls I can match..

{5 months}

shay is now 5 months old and i hardly believe it. she is just as fun as always and has really started to babble a lot. she loves hearing her self talk.

she is starting to sit up really well too. she just likes to sit and eat toys. she has gotten really good at picking up her toys with both hands and getting them up to her mouth. she can also switch hands.
she hasn't had much practice rolling yet because she is either being held or in her bumbo. we will hopefully master that soon. she has yet to try her first taste of food too....that is going to happen this week hopefully. shay has gotten a little sick this week and she has been a real trooper.
we love shay so much. she has the smile that is so contagious. she loves her sister and is so patient letting mylie play with her. we love you little shay shay.

*my's loves her sissy*

*Cute Curls*

where have we been?

i will give you a hint....

(had to share this...girls rock on 2 year old panties...awesome!)

i love the saggy bum....
mylie LOVES wearing her big girl panties and looks so stinkin cute. we started Mylie 2 days before Thanksgiving and that day we just went cold turkey into panties and she had 3 pee pee accidents and not one accident since! she really took to it and she tells me when she needs to go potty now. i am loving not having to change her diapers... WOO HOO.....way to go Princess!

santa...

it has been so much fun watching mylie get so excited about christmas... whenever you ask her what she wants for christmas her usual response is christmas lights...so we drive around almost every night looking at christmas lights. fishbowl had santa come for a visit and while i wouldn't say she loved him...much better then last year.

...i wanna walk like you, talk like you....

playing at Grammy's...

helping grammy with homework

...Enough said

4 months

Shaylie is 4 months old. I can't believe it! I really don't know how to describe Shay, because she is the best baby and the cutest one I have ever seen. Ok, so I am the mom, but seriously... Shay is coooing all the time now and has the cutest little giggle. She is very ticklish and loves all the attention. She has become more cuddly, but only when she is tired. I have been enjoying holding her at night before she drifts off and just cuddling her.
She loves her toys and loves to try and eat them. She enjoys listening to the books that I read Mylie at night, and will just sit on my lap and enjoy a good story. Her smile will melt anyone!!! It is so sweet. She sleeps like a champ, still 3 naps and all night. She wakes up at 7ish and wants to eat and will go back down for another 3 hours. She is super strong...she tries to sit up now if I lay her down. She arches her back wanting to get up. She loves to play in the Bumbo too.
Shay has been extra calm the last couple weeks while we were battling sickness. She was very content to just hang out next to me and watch TV for a couple days until I recovered and could play with her.
Mylie loves Shay so much and Shay must love Mylie because she doesn't mind when Mylie is all over her. She is growing so big...
She weighs 13 lbs and 6 oz. 46% and she 24 1/2 inches 71% She is perfect!

...MIA...

So we have been totally missing in action. On the 8th Chris left for a week business trip, I kept myself busy with the girls so the time would go faster. The day he got home, Mylie and I came down with either food poisioning...or the stomach flu. It was awful and we were up most the night. So we recovered for a couple days while Chris took care of us all and then the next day he came down with the much dreaded SWINE!!! He was quarantined in the basement for 5 FULL days to stay away from the girls. The most Mylie saw of her dad was through the window while we were playing outside. So now we are all healthy and feeling quite a bit better. It was a pretty rough 2 weeks. In the middle of all this, our little bro Corey came home from his mission in the Baltics. Chris and Mylie were able to go see him at the airport, but I was still recovering from sickness so I didn't get to go. :( But we are so happy to have him home....My little buddy!

{halloween}

we had a great halloween this year. it was very low key and those are the best kind. friday we headed to fishbowl to see daddy and trick-or-treat his offices. they just recently redecorated the place and it was fun to see all the changes. saturday, chris and i relaxed and cleaned the house and then we got the kiddos ready and took them to karlie & dave's to see the fitch cousies, then to grammy's trunk-or-treat, then we went to visit some of my high school friends, and then we went to hang out with our friends. we ate, played wii, and just had a great night. thanks for all the fun guys!

Mylie my cute Tinkerbell

Shay the ladybug

Fishing at Fishbowl

Tahnee & Lyza the Ballerina

This is how Shay felt at the end of the night

Savy, My's, Colsty, Bosty & Shay

Cute Bosty with Shay