Christmas!!

We had a really fun Christmas this year. McKinley was so excited since we've had the presents under the tree for the last few weeks. She LOVES to sing and has been singing "Santa Clause is Coming to Town", "Jingle Bells", "Up on the House Top" and various other Christmas songs.

We've had our nativities out and explained that Christmas was about Jesus' birth. She loves birthdays, so that was exciting for her too.

She had tons of fun taking some treats around to neighbors and loved giving people Christmas presents.

We opened up presents with my parents Christmas Eve and that really got McKinley excited for the morning. Grandma and Grandpa gave us a Zoo pass that she is stoked about and should be fun all summer long! The girls got pillow pets, toys, clothes and books. Robbie and I got a Blu Ray player. It was a fun way to spend Christmas Eve.

Robbie and I stayed up and got presents ready that night and Christmas morning McKinley couldn't wait to get down stairs and tear into the gifts. Molly slept through most of Christmas. Later Christmas day we went to Robbie's parents house and opened more fun presents. McKinley can't get enough of the blanket Nana made for her doll! I absolutely love my new cookware and Robbie got the money to sign up for his half Iron Man, so he's on cloud nine as well! We are so lucky to have such fun and great Grandparents for our kids (and parents for us:) ).

Over it was a really fun Christmas, here are some fun pictures!

McKinley only asked Santa for a doll and blue crayon, and what do you know...Santa gave her a doll and whole box of crayons, not just the blue one!

Here Molly is reading her book from Mom and Dad.

She finally woke up just in time for her ball popper.

McKinley got a kitchen from Mom and Dad (really we got it for both of them, but let's face it, Molly is a ways off from actually playing with it). She loved it and immediately went to work making us food.

One Month Old!

Molly is now one month old...well 2 weeks ago anyway! I can't believe it, the time has gone by so fast. She is a pretty easy baby, doesn't really cry much or anything. She's kind of a party animal around 3 am, but it's getting better. She's also very patient with her big sister...McKinley just can't get enough of her! She's a tall (90%) and skinny baby (25%) according to her stats. She has her daddy's chin, her mommy's long arms and we're just waiting to see if her eyes stay blue. Here is my cute little munchkin:

Everybody sees McKinley's blond hair and Molly's dark hair and comments on how different they are. They have similarities, but are definitely different. Here are baby pics of both of them...yep, McKinley was born with dark hair too, we'll have to see what Molly's hair does!

It's been a really nice month. I've been able to do things for Molly that I wasn"t able to do for McKinley because of my bi-lateral femoral neuropathy and it's been awesome! I think maybe it even healed a little of heart ache I had from when McKinley was so little and I wasn't able to take care of her. You have no idea how nice it was to hear Molly's little cry in the middle of the night and be able to get up and go get her, to me it feels like a lmiracle. I didn't do a Thanksgiving post, but on my list of things I'm grateful for this is up at the top!