Christmas Card

 

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!  We love you!

Merry Madagascar

Sitting on Santa's lap at our ward Christmas party:

Christmas jammies:

Mimi and Papa came up last weekend and we went to the Gaylord Texan to see the lights and 2 million pounds of Merry Madagascar Ice!  

You know you're jealous of the sweet Ice! jackets:

Papa was a good sport for holding Colton.  The little guy exploded just as we went in and I couldn't do anything about it.  And, no, 11 degree weather didn't freeze the stink.  Between the cold and the smell we lasted for 15-20 minutes in there.  It was really cool though.  Pun intended:

The ice slide:

The hotel also had indoor snow tubing.  Autrey, Dylan, and I did that while Mimi and Papa stayed with the sleeping Santa:

You know you're a Texan when all the best winter activities are done indoors.

3 year old and 6 month updates

Guess who's eating veggies?  These pictures were from the 1st 2 times trying peas.  You'd think I was feeding him acid with these awful faces, but he ate everything I gave him:

 2 short videos of Colton's reactions to the peas:

 

Alice Kellar, my best friend at church, and her family moved to Arkansas this week.  We didn't cry too much when we said good-bye after our last play date, but the next time Dylan asks to go play with Maiya, Derek, and Sylvie I might lose it.  We will miss them so much:

Over to play and have dinner:

Dylan 3 year old update:

*Height: 40 1/2 in, 97%
  Weight: 38 lb, 97%
  Blood pressure: 100/66 (just a bit higher than mine)

*He is wearing size 3 and 4 clothes (because of length) and size 10 shoes.

*He knows his name, our 'real' names, age, birthday, address, and hair color.  I haven't taught him his eye color because they aren't really a true blue anymore.  Kind of bluish, grayish, hazel and I'm not sure which to go with.

*He went #2 facing the right way at G-ma's house today.  Hope we can keep it up.

*Dylan picked up some lint off the floor and said, "It's from daddy's belly button."  It wasn't...this time.

*Me: "Are you Captain Hook?"
  D: "No. Cap'n Dylan."
  Me: "Oh, right."
  D: "But G-pa said Marshall Dylan."

*Aut: "Are you a democrat?"
  D: "No.  I'm a big boy."

*"I'm going to Kristen's house.  She has 2 babies in her belly.  They're going to play with me."

*While getting dressed he'll say, "Let's see if the clothes fit" or "These clothes are too small.  They go to Jackson."

*"I want to go to Mimi's house."  We are lucky enough to see Mimi and Papa often, but we haven't been to Houston in so long I think he's referring to one of the rentals we've stayed at recently.

* Dylan: "I made Maggie and Sylvie sad."
   Autrey: "What?  Maggie's not here."
   Dylan: "She needs to come find me."

*"I want some more reindeer food please, mom." Carrots are really cool this time of year.

*Dylan got a reindeer Pez dispenser.  He named it Pez.

*Me: "Colton, we don't bite mama!"
  Dylan: "He's just learning to bite you.  It's ok mama."
  Dylan to Colton: "We don't bite mama or I will spank your bottom." Hmmmmm...

*After a long time in the tub: "Wash my hands.  Get the wrinkles off.  I look like Nana."  (Don't worry.  Nana has a great sense of humor.)  After a few hours he looked down and said, "They're back to normal!"

*Dylan went to the park with Autrey.  Dylan tried to jump over Autrey's head and his foot caught on Autrey's shoulder.  Dylan face planted on the wood chips.  I asked what happened to his face and he simply said, "I didn't make it."

*He loves to eat truck-shaped turkey and cheese sandwiches.  I love my cookie cutters.  He also likes 'ants on a log' as a snack.

*He has a good grasp of his colors.  The only ones he occasionally slips up on are gray, yellow (he will say orange or y-y-blue), and pink ("shiny." It's my fault because I will say "I love your shiny shirt, Maggie" or "Look at Sylvie's shiny shoes.")

*He should have been a parrot for Halloween.  He repeats everyone and sometimes it sounds like he is making fun of strangers.  I told him not to repeat what everyone's saying.  After our talk I repeated a question he asked me to make sure I knew what he wanted, to which he told me, "Don't say that.  That's not very nice."  Touche'.

*When he sings along with new songs he mumbles then yells the last word of a phrase.

*We don't get any channels on our tv so he doesn't understand commercials.  When he has been at vacation rental houses, as soon as one comes on he asks to watch his show again as if we turned it off.

*"Egg Milk" = Eggnog.  He is his father's son and loves it.

*He will lay on top of Colton on the floor to give him a hug and when I tell him to be soft he will say, "I just want to love on him."

Colton 6 month update:

* Head: 16.9 in, 25% (Dylan was 44 cm, 50%)
   Height: 26 1/4in, 50% (Dylan was 26.5, 50%)
   Weight: 14lb 13oz, 10% (Dylan was 15 lb 3 oz, 10-25%)

*He just moved up to 6 month clothes and is about ready for size 2 shoes.

*Colton rolls both ways.

*He grabs his toes.

*A few times he transferred an object to his other hand.

*He tripod sits and is getting more stable.  He sits in his Bumbo a lot, but has wiggled his way out of it once.

*He is handsy and grabs everything, including hair and jewelry.

*He loves oatmeal and rice cereal.  He has also eaten veggies - peas, carrots, squash, green beans, sweet potatoes.

*Not only is he jabbering, but also squealing and growling.

*He is ticklish and laughs a lot.  Dylan and Colton crack each other up.

*Colton will go to family or strangers, but he gets fussy sometimes when I put him on the floor and briefly walk out of sight (ie throwing something away out in the garage or putting clothes away in the closet).

*He makes the "b" and "g" sound and has made the "m" sound sound a few times.

If I had wun mealyun dollerz...

I love my in-laws.  So funny.  I could only love them more if this was real: