Little Mama

Norah walks around the house usually carrying a baby, a stuffed animal, a ball or all three! I love watching her play when she thinks no one's watching. She talks to her babies and, even reads to them!

A lion, a lamb, and 2 sing-a-ma-jigs out for a stroll with Norah!


I love this picture of Norah! It's like she's marching up to the Starbucks counter to buy her usual latte! Ha

8 Weeks!

Our little guy is already 8 weeks old! He's growing fast and already filling out his 3-6 month clothes. He does pretty good sleeping at night but, we have yet to establish consistency in nighttime feedings. One night he'll sleep til 4, the next til 1:45, then the next til 3:30... he keeps us on our toes I guess! During the day he eats every 3 hours like clockwork; he REFUSES to miss one single feeding!:) He smiles whenever we talk to him and loves playing under his play arch.

Just looking at these two pictures of Henry, makes me want to go wake him up so I can kiss his chubby cheeks!

Sunday Funday!

Yesterday was such a great day to spend inside bumming around the house. It was so cold and blizzarding outside. Although, I can't complain... our family in ND had a high of -3. Sorry guys....

These pictures of Joel and Norah melt my heart! They love to dance to Christmas music and laugh like crazy




Henry didn't care much for dancing yesterday but, he's usually my dance partner!

I am still baffled at what a big baby Henry is! He has his two-month checkup on Friday and I'm so curious to find out how much he weighs!

Also, Norah turned 17 months on Friday and she decided that she now longer needs a paci! We had been having to throw away pacis because she was biting through them and when we bought her new ones, she rejected them. I am so proud of her.... I was getting really worried when we realized she could bite through them. I worried that she'd bite the nipple completely off and choke on it. We weren't going to take pacis away from her until after Christmas but, she an early bird I guess! We thought pacis were Norah's comfort when falling asleep but, she's still going to bed with no problems.
Hopefully this picture from last Monday will be the last picture you'll see of Norah with a paci!

Have a great Monday!!

Henry and Joel

Probably talking about snowboarding and such!

Mornings with Norah

When Henry takes a morning nap, I get to enjoy breakfast with Norah. I love going to get her out of her crib in the mornings. She's all smiles when she sees me open her door. Her rountine involves hollering in a language that sounds like mandarin and throwing her blankies out of her cib. Once she's finished all that, she puts her arms out so I can help her out. I make her a waffle and get her a sippy of apple juice while she wanders around the house aimlessly until she hears me call her to breakfast. She then comes running over to her highchair and we enjoy a peaceful breakfast together.

You can see in these pictures that Norah enjoys moments of quiet these days!

Slight Disagreement!

I felt like I was glancing ahead to the future.....

It was just after Norah had finished eating her lunch. She ran over to Henry's swing, stopping it with her little potbelly. First, Henry looked at her and smiled.... afterall, this boy loves his big sis. Then, he realized she was giving him a smug look like she wanted him to get out of HIS OWN swing so she could let her sing-a-ma-jig have a turn. No way, Henry said in the form of his very own "stink-eye," which he clearly inherited from me. Pretty soon, both kids were screaming at each other and from the sound of it, Henry's death scream won the battle. Norah would end up pushing her pink sing-a-ma-jig around in her doll stroller and Henry would enjoy a relaxing nap in his swing.

Christmas Tree

Sunday we went to a local Christmas tree farm and got our tree. It was such a fun experience; they just gave us a saw and we wondered all over the field until we found the "Skalet Family Christmas Tree." Henry slept the whole time and Norah wondered all around looking for that perfect 6 foot tree. Once we found it, Joel cut it down and carried it to the main isle, and stood proudly next to his pine while we waited for a guy to come load it on the trailer. Joel and a guy who worked at the farm tied the tree to the top of the car while Norah and I enjoyed some hot apple cider in the little holiday shop. Sounds fair to me.....

I of COURSE forgot my camera at home so we just got a couple pics from Joel's phone of the whole experience. Sorry there aren't more pictures of the kids, I guess Joel and I felt like the kids on Sunday! We were both first-timers and so excited to go find our tree... I think we are going to make it a tradition




Norah's watching Joel take the tree off the car! She was so excited when the tree was finally in the house.




We had such a great weekend and WOW, what a great time of year! We'll get more pics of the tree once we finish decorating it. Last year Norah was a little too young to get excited about snow and lights and Christmas music but, this year she points and squeals and hollers out whenever she sees anything Christmas related. She loves dancing to Christmas music (which we listen to pretty much all day, everyday). Her joyful heart is truly a blessing to us.

Henry's Smiling & Norah's Talking!

I forgot to mention in my last posts but, there's some breaking news from our house! Henry has started smiling when we talk to him! We're positive it is NOT gas.:) He has a couple smiles that he sports. One is a big wide open mouth, double chin, eyes almost completely closed smile then, he's got an oh so sweet little smirk which melts my heart every single time.

Norah's been impressing us with all the words she's recently learned and is currently learning to say; cheese, shoes, juice, belly, hair, ear, baby, ball, book, Henry, Jesus, nose, paci, music, done and outside. She also found her belly button... and she loves pulling her shirt up to show it off!
Here are a few pictures from Saturday morning. You can even see Henry's cute smirk in a couple of them.


Please excuse my appearance in these pictures and also the dirty diaper in the background! We were just getting ready for the day.




Have a great Tuesday!

Christmas Card?

After we tried taking a couple pictures of the kids and this turned out to be on of the best, we thought we better warn everyone that our Christmas card may be *interesting* this year. We hope you get a chuckle out of it!

LOVE.

We love these kids more than we could've ever imagined. Seeing them together has Joel and myself smiling ear to ear.




I don't know if Henry's retaliating from all the times Norah's tried to sit on him but, after they were done "snuggling" I found about 5 strands of Norah's hair in his hand!

Random

Here are a couple more pictures from this past week.

Norah climbed in all by herself! We figured if we kept the tray down she wouldn't be able to get in but, she climbed in from the side.
Henry's now 5 weeks old!


The laughter of Norah when Joel pushes her in this stroller is most contagious!

Henry has been awesome lately! Last night he slept from 10-4 then from 4:30-8. Praise the LORD for two easy-going kiddos! I have no idea how we'd manage otherwise...