The Classic Santa Picture

I must say I am REALLY thankful the photographer was on the ball and snapped this picture before Wyatt ran away from Santa! I tried to get Wyatt up on Santa's knee one more time but he would have nothing to do with that! (Yes, I did laugh, but not outloud).

Natalee and Andrew were happy to have their own little moment with Santa.

Baby Turns 2

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For Wyatt's birthday, I baked up some yummy cookies. I think he liked them as a present.

The Puppy the boys picked out was a hit.

This truck was also a favourite.

Eating cake. To quote Wyatt, "Mmmmmmmm!"

Cool, fire! No, he didn't blow out his candles or burn his fingers. :)

This the The Cake! (No, I did not make this). Pretty neat, heh?

The picture does not really do it justice.

A Few of My Favourite Things

Wyatt making me laugh...(he had me put a diaper on his stuffed frog, whose belly is much larger than his)

My Girly-girl.

My boyz.

Christmas fruit cake - after.
The making of Christmas cake on Remembrance Day. Definitely one of my favourite things.

I like it that my oldest son still needs his Buddy. Even getting up at 2 a.m. the other night to get Buddy from the dryer because my son was loudly complaining in his bed because he couldn't sleep without him. :)

Hiking in the snow.

Working out. :)

I also like it that Natalee can now put on her own socks, that Caleb read 198 pages of the new "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" in one day (leaving him only 8 pages to read before I was even out of bed the next morning), that Joshua is the best source of entertainment for his siblings, and I also like it when Andrew says at 7 p.m. "I'm tired, can we go to bed now?" And that Wyatt now falls asleep without any problems these days, even though he can now open his door. It's like he had to figure out how to open his door before he could learn to fall asleep without playing the "chase me back to bed" game. And that 13 years ago (November 10th), Mike proposed and I said "yes."

Thing Five

Wyatt loves the fluffy white dandelions.

Giant baby. He's almost 2!

A clown puppy. With his wierd oldest brother in the back.

A clown puppy playing.

AJB Inc.

I asked Andrew to take a picture of my haircut a few weeks ago...this is his camera work.

Natalee really really likes playing with Andrew. They play so amazingly well together in the afternoons and I think Natalee is sad when the bigger boys come home since that means Andrew doesn't spend as much time with her.

Obviously a budding photographer. :)

His paperbag scarecrow craft.

Andrew and Natalee really enjoyed dressing up in Halloween costumes.

Andrew was most proud of decorating THIS cookie.

Halloween 2010

Caleb, skeleton; Andrew, pirate; Natalee, pumpkin; Wyatt, puppy; Joshua...bad guy?

Cookies we decorated.

And cookies we ate. :)

Our jack-o-lanterns.

BTS 2010

How many more years before people will be asking if they're triplets???

Left to Right:

Caleb, grade 4

Andrew, Kindergarten

Joshua, grade 3

End of Summer 2010

Enjoying the last of the watermelon.
Soccer ball jack knife. :)

Parade in the rain.

This is the house I grew up in. It did not look like this 20 years ago!

Visited the cemetery.

Natalee made her first ER visit one Sunday morning. It was just a stye. They sent her home with two different topical antibiotics. She was so brave!

Boys on the couch, Saturday morning.

Caleb...cutting onions, with goggles on. :)

Natalee helping to prep the apples.

Ummmm, I think YOU'RE exhausted!

Wyatt Loves Apples

Joshua and Andrew love apples too, especially when they can pick them, but Wyatt has just discoverd his love of apples. Wyatt just picked him up off of the ground and ate them, two at a time. We find him wandering around the house snacking on apples these days, it's really quite cute. Finding half-eaten apples lying around under the couch...not so cute. Not sure what's up with blogger and pictures on this post...