Snow Days

We went outside twice yesterday, none today. It takes too long to get all the clothes on, then it seems the kids are pretty miserable pretty fast. Oh well. Henry liked the "sledding" on a trashcan top pulled by Brent. No hills here.

Day Away

A picture from Thanksgiving. Just got back from my night away Christmas present from Brent. It was awesome and refreshing.

December

Christmas party

Felicity shows off gloves that she put on by herself! (It only took her about 5 minutes).

On cold days, we sometimes play in the garage. Felicity can ride her bike now, and Henry can ride the power wheels (as you can see, he can press the button pretty well).

Exploring

Henry has amazed me these last two days. He goes through a big box of letters and picks out the 2 lower case "t"s and carries them arround. It is pretty amazing that he can find them and identify them and match them. Then he will say "t" over and over again. He also signs over 10 words now: fish, elephant, cat, moon, fan, light, bird, bye and some I am forgetting. And he still says duck, dad, mama, and dog. He loves to be outside. While I am raking, he makes a beeline for wherever I am raking and tries to walk though the pile of leaves. He gets upset with me if I stop reading to him when we are reading.

Group Shots at Thanksgiving

Decorating our Christmas Tree.

Slide

Henry would do the slide 100 times if I kept putting him at the top. He needs to learn to climb the ladder. He is doing better at it now, and doesn't usually topple over at the bottom like in this video.

Painting

Look Who is Walking

Henry started walking on Wednesday, November 10th, 2010.

Henry One Year Appointment

So Henry had his 1 year appointment today. The readings are: 19 pounds 7 ounces (7th percentile), 29.25 inches (32nd percentile), 45.3 cm head circ. (20th percentile). The doctor wasn't concerned about his weight though. She seemed to think he was just a very active boy. His iron was slightly low-was told to get some vitamin with iron. Was also told to get some specific moisterizer for some eczema on his ankles. While I was trying to buy it at the store today he grabbed it off the shelf and the jar exploded. Great!

Henry's Birthday

Henry got a pumpkin cookie with a candle on it-no cake, poor child. There was just so much candy floating around for Halloween, I didn't want cake in the house too. We celebrated with Jing (exchange student) and our friend Keita. Henry loves the duck toy he got since it quacks and he loves ducks.

Halloween

Thanks J+C for the cool outfit for Henry. I have been calling him "Hamburger Henry" for days now. He didn't mind the outfit. It is really warm too, so we have used it as pajamas. It fits Felicity too. Felicity was her favorite princess, Snow White.

Thank You!

Thank you Boston Family for the yummy fruit and birthday wishes for my two favorite boys! It was so exciting to get it and it is being thoroughly enjoyed! The chocolate ghosts were Felicity's and Henry's favorite.

Gymnastics

We had a trial Gymnastics class Monday. Felicity liked it and had fun, but didn't love it, so I don't know that I will take her back. She did like it better than karate though. The pictures aren't very good, but she is the one on the bar with her legs straight out.

Portraits

Here are some of our recent portraits. There are two more of Felicity and Henry individually, but they are similar. Those who would like some (aka mom-mom), let me know which ones and what sizes you would like. Do you like the dress?

Spinning

Henry demonstrates his spin move which he excells at especially when trying to keep something away from his sister. Felicity demonstrates how she usually needs exactly what Henry has.

Entertainment

Felicity is Henry's dinner show quite frequently.

Hay Ride and Pumpkins

Farm Day

Going to the farm this year reminded me of last year when I took Felicity and gave birth to Henry a few days later. It was nice not to be pregnant this year. We had two tickets for Felicity and and her cousin to ride the pony, but then her cousin decided he didn't want to ride the pony. So mom had the great idea to let Henry ride. He was very quiet and still on the ride, but not scared or excited. It was pretty cute though.

Yard Boating

We got 16 inches of rain in 2 days last week. Our neighbors about 6 houses down floated their rowboat in their yard, and we all went for a ride with all the neighborhood kids. Kids were jumping off and swimming. It was pretty interesting, and fun!

Playing dolls

A cute video of my girls playing dolls.

Jing

Here are some pictures of Jing, the Chinese high school foreign exchange student staying with us for the year. Felicity loves her and we are all enjoying her. She is pretty busy with school, but has dinner with us every night and then has some time to do some fun things with us on the weekends.

Crawling and Eating

Not the best picture (or haircut-a two minute job by me...), but I wanted Mom-mom to see her in her new outfit. Thank you! She loves it and I do too.

Henry has been crawling several weeks now, and here is proof. He has a very unique 3-legged crawl though. It is cute. He can get where he wants to very quickly.
Henry thinks his sister is absolutely hilarious, and often smiles so big his eyes close, like in this video.

Above: Felicity decided to make the coffee table her pretend bed and got all her animals and dolls to come to sleep with her. Unfortunately, she didn't actually go to sleep. Henry is in the background doing what he does best-exploring. He started clapping this week. It is so cute!
Below: Here is Brent on his first day of school! He is wearing the ECU color purple. His first day went well!

Whenever the kids actually are wearing the same color, I always feel like I should take a picture since outfits and clothes are dirtied changed so much, it doesn't happen for long.

Dogs and Food

This was a breakfast...

Henry usually likes to look at dogs, although he has looked a little scared a few times.

This is often how Henry eats-flapping his arms as if to say, "I like it, feed me faster." In general, he is a good eater. He still doesn't self feed though. Looking forward to that. Thanks for feeding him so much when you were here, Hannah.