L-U-K-E

Rebekah drew and cut out these letters for her brother to “decorate.”  She has always been a gift giver, but in this situation we were more impressed with her fine motor skills.  Look how proportional the letters are in width and height.  {It was important to Rebekah to be in the pictures, by the way.  Please note the cute baby in the background, too.}  By the end, you can see all the decorating Rebekah and Luke did together- it was really sweet to see them work together.  Hard to imagine Lizzie getting in on this one day!

The Many {Sour} Faces of Luke

Since infancy, Luke has had some pretty amazing scowls and grimaces.  He is a delightful little boy, but his grumpiness cracks us up {most of the time}.  Here is a sampling from Christmas morning.  He wasn’t even in a bad mood- Josh caught these candidly.

 

Lighting Up Aberdeen!

My mom, the kids, and I headed out to see the Christmas lights get turned on in city centre- there are rows of them strung between the two sides of the street and tonight was the night they lit them up, complete with a fairly bizarre parade {including snow plows and random dancing figures, both religious and not at all}.  Sweet Lizzie girl was such a trooper- she rode in my sling and drained a bottle while we were walking!  She is such a good baby!

The pictures are really dark and not great from poor lighting, etc, but here they are:

The Terrific Trio!

My sister-in-law, Becky, asked me to get a picture of our 3 kids together.  This is the best I could do…as well as a few others from today.  :)

Early Christmas with Mamama

We celebrated an early Christmas with my mom last weekend.  She brought all of us some really fun gifts- new clothes, shoes, jewelry, games, toys, etc.  It was fun to watch the kids open their gifts and enjoy them so much.  Sweet Lizzie nursed and slept the entire time, but she got a new winter coat and a cozy winter suit, too.  Even Aunt Becky and Uncle Billy sent gifts for the kids, which was such a fun surprise.