Brianna was practically the perfect balance of super excited but not crazy about Christmas. She put her ornament on her countdown tree every day and was excited when it was finally Christmas Eve, and then promptly slept until after 8:30 on Christmas morning. Perfect!
As soon as she came down stairs, she wanted to see what Santa put in her stocking.
One of the items left by Santa was some play lipstick…gee, thanks Santa! She swears she only gets it on her lips. Here is her first attempt:
Sometime later in the day after who knows how many applications…
After her third or fourth attempt, Jason started cracking Joker jokes, especially when she pouted when we pointed a camera at her (why so serious??).
Only after she went through her stocking, and only after various bribes/threats would she stand next to her ornament tree and smile (here she is holding the hippopotamus she asked Santa to bring her).
After a quick breakfast, she started opening her presents. Let’s just say she is much faster than she used to be. BUT she was also content to open only about half before starting to play with some before we took Tatie Kat to the airport.
With her new sleeping bag…
and guitar…
and bilibo…
Sweet picture with Tatie Kat before leaving for the airport.
When we got back, she said she wanted to wait until after he nap to open more presents, but then changed her mind and declared she would open that big one in the loft before her nap. I did not see her face as I was helping her pull off the wrapping “bag,” but I heard her little squeal when she saw the kitchen!
Jason took most of the pics, so hopefully I will have some more to share once we get them off his camera. She had a great day!
I haven’t posted anything for more than 3 weeks – I am not even sure where the time went. We have all been so busy! Jason finished up a game at work (translation: he has been slammed), I have been finishing up several applications in the wake of the personnel changes at work (translation: I have been slammed), and then there is Christmas and all the business that goes with it. I haven’t taken many pictures at all, so I don’t have much to share, but here are a couple of cute ones.
Here’s B with her new Reindeer glasses (which she thinks are very silly!).
We do not have any pictures of B with Santa. She is fascinated by Santa, and particularly by her elf (“Football”), but when it comes time to actually sit on Santa’s lap (or basically get anywhere near Santa), she is a no go. So, we settled for some jammy pictures in front of the tree.
She is very excited there are only two days left!!!
When is Jenn due?
January 30th, 2012
What is the gender?
Girl
What will the name be?
(queue the crickets)
Hmmmmm. Well, … Um, …
We haven’t made much progress on this front.
Here is another ultrasound for Baby 2.
In this image, the fetal age is 10 weeks (so, Jenn was 12 weeks pregnant).
This “official” blog announcement is long overdue, and anyone who actually reads this blog surely knows this already. But, better late than never, right?
Jenn is pregnant again (really pregnant, at this point), and we will be welcoming Baby 2 sometime around the end of January.
Here are some early-pregnancy ultrasounds, from earlier this year.
This first image was taken on June 8, 2011. Jenn is roughly “6 weeks pregnant”. I put that in quotes because of the whole “the first two weeks of your pregnancy, you aren’t actually pregnant yet” thing, which really bugs me. Can’t we all just switch to fetal age like sensible people? But I digress.
Anyway, the fetal age in the image below is roughly 4 weeks.
Not much going on yet.
And then, here is the “peanut” picture. This image was taken on June 23, 2011. Fetal age here is about 6 weeks (so Jenn was 8 weeks pregnant).
I know – I am late with the Thanksgiving post. Sue me. 
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with Tatie Kat coming for the entire weekend, and B’s buddy Hawke and his parents coming for Thanksgiving dinner. After all the hustle and bustle with the “big dinner” was over, we decided to basically relax, decorate for Christmas, relax some more, and make gingerbread boys/girls! B helped with every phase – I love how she has flour on her cheek and her tongue is sticking out while she pours the flour into the mixer.
After the dough chilled during her nap, it was time to roll out the dough and cut the cookies!
Rolling out her dough…
Measuring the thickness of her dough…
Cutting the cookies…
The mess was sooo worth the fun she seemed to be having!
After the cookies baked and cooled, we moved onto decorating them. She dictated that all smiley faces were girls and all angry faces were boys. I have NO idea why.
She had a blast, and I can’t wait to make more Christmas cookies with her!
