chapstick

Natalie got some chapstick for her birthday. She was pretty good with it until today. She told me that her chapstick broke. Tim went to see what she did and she had put chapstick on all of her dolls. Apparently she thought they all had chapped lips. But she told me the boy doll had a rash.... ??

The girls

Over Christmas break a couple of college roommates, along with husbands and kids, got together. Erin & her husband are from Spokane WA so its been a while since we have seen her. This was the first time she met Amaya and Ryenn, Tara and Josh's newest addition.

Amaya and Ryenn are only 4 weeks apart and very similar in size. :) Missing in this picture is Dylan and Kyler.

No kids for Erin yet, but she looks like she is ready for a couple!
Amaya and Ryenn, so cute!

Amaya is 5 months!

Here are a couple of pictures I took yesterday of Miss Amaya.

The scale that she is on is a scale that is past to each new baby on Tim's side of the family. I love it that now have her weight in the picture because I am realizing that I can not keep all my kids weights straight at certain ages which I thought I would be able to.

Conversation

Here is a conversation that Dylan and Natalie were having while I am sitting by the computer. I was trying to type as fast as possible because I didnt want to miss anything. It may seem like I'm missing a few things, but this is truely how it went.

Natalie-

Mom, did you know that God cares for all of us and he is going to take us home?

Dylan-

Yea, I know that! But he is going to take us to heaven, not his home!

I told them they were both right, then it continued....

Dylan-

Why is Jesus God's son?

God didn't have a wife? Then what did he have?

But mom, why is it God's son when Mary had him? God couldn't have him because he had no wife? Why did the angel ask Mary to name her baby "Jesus"?

Natalie-

Did you know Joseph was Jesus' dad? and Mary was his mom.

Dylan-

Heaven is on a cloud, Natalie! (yelling at her, typical brother)

Does Jesus and God have a machine that brings us up there?

Natalie-

No Dylan! God has a long scarf that we have to climb so we can go up to heaven.

Dylan-

Maybe they have to bring one person up at a time to heaven.

Did you know that Jesus and God have the same kinds of power?

I wish I knew the answers because they were getting a little mad at me that I wasnt giving them enough answers.

christmas morning

Natalie holding her "socken" waiting to see whats inside!

Dylan cant wait to see either!

There is no baby that enjoys being kissed on the cheek more than Amaya. She leans into it and just smiles and sometimes giggles.

We considered this year our "year off" for Amaya. We didnt get her much but we thought it would be sad if she looked back when she is older and noticed that she didnt get any presents, so we had to include this picture.

Dylan's big gift was a collection of Nerf guns, (or was this Tim's big gift? ) it came with 4 guns and we are consistently reminding him that he cant shoot Natalie when she isn't playing. Typical big brother.

Natalie's big gift was a So Chic Style salon. She has been asking for this since october and of course it was the hardest toy to find! Tim actually went to 2 Toys R Us at 6 am on a saturday and finally got it! It was the last one. To hear Tim's side of the story of when he got it is hilarious. There was actually a point on his way from one store to the other that he was going sideways down the road and heading into oncoming traffic. That was the point when he said if she doesnt get it, oh well. BUT he ended up getting it, so he deserves the "dad of the year" award.

I got a pair of these sockem boppers for both Tim and Dylan. As you can see here, they create quite the static. Her hair was ridiculous that day after this.

Overall a GREAT Christmas!

Oh, by the way, one of Natalie's gift was that she is going to be taking ballet class, so we gave her the shoes and outfit for Christmas. Right after she opened the present she striped down and put it on. She wore it for 2 days straight! I even put her Christmas dress over top of the outfit before we went to church. No one even knew and she didnt throw a fit!! It worked out perfectly.