December

Poor Allan sprained his ankle playing basketball. He was on crutches for a few days and is now gimping around. The doctor said it will be quite a while before he's back to normal. :(

Ava's preschool had a preschool parent day in December. It was so fun to go and see what she does in school! We made Christmas tree's,

bracelets,

Christmas ornaments, and they sang "Silent Night" and did the sign language for it. Little A has been practicing the sign language for it at home, and even taught it to me! She was too nervous to do it at school though. She stayed up with her class the whole time, but then cried and cried afterward. It was so sad. She was so brave though! Also, it was so noisy she asked me if we could leave after only being there for about 10 minutes. Poor baby. Overall it was a really fun time though!

This is what happens when Mama makes cookies. We also were having a home study the next day. I cleaned FOREVER that night. UG.

A sister makes a great pillow! Ha!

My cute little Christmas beauties!

We had a fun Christmas Eve at Nana and Pops house. Little A was so happy she got to play in the snow with Daddy and cousins.

There was delicious food and lots, and lots of presents!

Baby L got stuck in the basket so she didn't get lost in all the wrapping paper.

They were VERY excited about their new toys.

So excited that when we got home Little A had a melt down about the presents in the car. We had to bring them inside and down to her room to help her calm down and go to sleep.

The next morning we woke up at 8am (yay!) to Little A playing with her new toys, ha! When we came down we got Baby L out of the crib so she could play too.

After a good play we went upstairs to see what Santa brought. They were thrilled with their toys and played all day long. Baby L got really mad at us anytime we interrupted her play. Their favorites were the Little People bus and plane, and their Doll House.

Allan got me an instant pot, a keyboard for our tablet, and a piano book. The girls got me some treats. They got Allan a ring toss game for our camping trips. I got him some camping gear and tools he wanted. 

Little A and I got to go on a sledding date. We had a blast!

Daddy took the girls outside to play in the snow while I cleaned up a bit. Baby L is not a fan so she didn't last long.

Once she was back inside Little A got Daddy to throw her in the snow banks, lol! It's her favorite thing other than eating the snow!

We got to visit Great Gram, Grandad, and Grandma H for New Years. The girls had a really good time. They both really loved the dogs, as usual.

Snuggling Grandma H.

Little A enjoyed playing in the snow with her cousin J.

Snuggling Grandad.

Reading Christmas stories by the Christmas tree.

Daddy had some good time off over Christmas and we really enjoyed it! He took advantage of his time off to spend some good quality time with the girls!

Christmas party at the dance studio.

This is how we do laundry....  Baby L has started saying more words. She says Mama, Dada, A's name, Moo, Boo, Vroom, signs milk, tired, eat, more, all done, and occasionally says sentences. For example she helps dress herself. We tell her to put one arm in, she does, then we tell her to put the other arm in and she says "I did it." Lol! It's too funny.

Matchy, matchy sisters! Little A loves to match! Baby L started crawling 4 days before Christmas! I was so excited that I cried a little! Our house got a bit messy while we were trying to get things ready. There were toys EVERYWHERE! She couldn't get around army crawling so she just got up on her knees instead, lol! If I'd known that was what it was going to take I would have stopped cleaning my house months ago, ha! In all seriousness though, we started seeing a PT at the hospital (who is also our neighbor). He has been helping her crawl up a small set of stairs and on the treadmill and I think that is what helped her to figure it out.

This is how Baby L goes to sleep. In other words. She doesn't. Poor baby. Now that we know she's a safe sleeper we're trying to remedy this. You can see how it's going.

One night Allan gave baby L a blessing to help her start sleeping through the night. Little A heard that he was giving L a blessing, so she asked him to give her one too. She thought for a second and then asked him to give her a blessing for a dry spot on her lip that has been bugging her. He gave her the blessing and she apparently felt the Spirit because when it was over she got a little emotional and gave him a long, tight hug. It was such a special moment.