Baby Want A Cracker?

At nearly 5 and 1/2 months, Willow is just about ready for solids. We're holding off longer than we did with Mila. Willow just seems a little more babyish at this point than her sister did...or maybe it's just us wanting to keep her that way.

We did let her try one of Mila's old favorites:

 Baby Mum Mum crackers.

She was pretty into them

and freaked out each time she dropped one...

which was often since she hasn't quite 

figured out how to use her hands to feed herself.

 Don't worry, sweet girl. 

Just a few more weeks and we will be using this bowl 

for food and not to entertain big sister (and ourselves) 

with funny photo ops. 

Phone Photos

After looking through the many pictures we take on our phones, I thought I'd share a few recent gems. They aren't always crisp, the light usually isn't great, and it would appear I never get the girls out of their pjs (I do, I swear!), but they are tiny moments of our day together. 

Little Miss loves to steal Mommy's 

slipper boots.

When Mommy needs a place to set Willow

down in the bathroom,

 her baby tub works just fine!

Mila kissing (eating?) 

her little sisters toes as 

she works on tummy time.

Willow is loving her exersaucer these days.

Mila thinks it is HI-LARIOUS

to put on Mommy's rain boots.

She calls them her "loco-legs".

It's a little dry in here...

Oops. Yeah...

not sure what exactly happened here.

Our Family Christmas 2013

We had a wonderful Christmas this year, 

our first as a family of four.

We opened our stockings on Saturday the 21st 

because we were heading to Michigan the next day.

Mila LOVES stocking stuffers

and pretty much ran the show.

 She opened Willow's stocking stuffers too.

 Her favorite stocking stuffer was definitely this

 little measuring tape.

She freaked out when she opened it and called it,

her "very own stretch!" 

Here she is measuring the door,

but she also told Mommy and Daddy 

to lay down so she could measure us.

She also really liked the chocolate "gold doubloons"

and a purple and orange whisk.

Willow was her usual sweet self.

This was the first year we left milk & cookies for Santa

(and snacks for the reindeer!)

Mila insisted we leave a note for Santa telling him

there was no eating on the couch, 

a new house rule she has taken very seriously.

In the morning, she opened her presents

 under the tree including those from her 

Uncle Brent, Aunt Crystal and cousin Hannah's 

family and from Grandma Lynn.

Santa left her two special presents as well:

A Jake and the Neverland Pirates guitar

and--her favorite gift of all--

 a Fur Real Friends Monkey 

named Cuddles.