Moving On

Well, we are back home now and enjoying the new routine we've established. D had four days off for Thanksgiving and then worked the 5pm-11pm shift all last week, so we had A LOT of quality family time that we weren't used to, but thoroughly enjoyed. This week he's working late four out of five nights, so when family time ended, it really ended!

Lylah is an amazing little girl and continues to amaze us with her gentle personality and her many grunts, groans, and stretches. This little one is sleeping through the night already (for a few weeks now), but has creeped up to sleeping NINE hours at a time! Enjoying it while it lasts :)

Micah is such a great big brother. He has a special place in his heart for her and enjoys kissing her and hugging her. He's always asking where she is if she's not in sight. She loves watching him play and move about, so all is good in sibling world. Micah's vocabulary has exploded and I'm always asking him to repeat what he said not because I didn't hear him, but because I didn't know he knew those words and how to use them in that context! His newest thing is to put the stool that Dad built him under any and every lightswitch so he can flip it on. I'm constantly shutting off lights in rooms that aren't in use!

We're all enjoying this time of year and had a lot of fun setting up our Christmas tree Friday morning. Micah was beside himself with excitement and really couldn't contain himself throughout the entire process! I'm in the market for a little tree for him so he'll stop touching all the stuff on our tree! I've put Christmas books and his Fisher Price Nativity Set under the tree, so he's having a good time with those...when he's not touching the ornaments!

Thanksgiving was a bit different this year in that we went up to David's sister's home about a half an hour away for dinner and then went to Mom and Dad's for dessert later in the day. Micah LOVED playing with Ari and all of her toys. He's constantly asking to go see Ari's house. We had all slept in that morning, until after 9 I think, so M didn't get his usual nap and did quite well. In the car on the way to Mom and Dad's, I was telling David that I guess M didn't need a nap after all and turned around to point out how wide awake he was...except that he was sound asleep in his carseat! And Lylah was asleep in her carseat, too! So we had a nice, quite, adult-conversation-filled ride. I almost wished the ride was longer! Of course when we got to Mom and Dad's, there was no more sleep to be had for either of them. Here are so pictures from the day: