Sunday, December 15, 2013

Friends' Christmas

The girls all came over for a little Christmas gathering and brought their families this year.  It was a fun, crazy time with two toddlers running around the house all night.  No longer can we sit down, sip our wine, and talk about what's going on in our lives at that time.  It's interrupted with diaper changes, food throwing, and crying because someone took their toy.  Holy cow...our lives have changed so much!  But I love my girlfriends so much.  They keep me sane and give me an outlet when I need some time away from busy life of being a working mom. 

 
Umm excuse me...you have your own veggie sticks

Loved having everyone together...the only one we were missing was Megan's boyfriend, Zach

Angie, Leigh, Laura (and baby Bentsen due to arrive in April), Jamie, Megan

The boys spent most of the night in the toy room

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

19 and 20 months

I realize that I forgot to do a 19 month post so I'm going to cheat and do 19 and 20 months together.  Mark and I went from saying "I could take this age forever" to "Holy Crap, I want to pull my hair out." Elliott started to comprehend more things which was really fun for a while.  But as his comprehension grew so did his frustrations when he didn't get his way.  Maybe this is just the terrible two's early?  On top of that we went through an almost 8 week sleep regression which brought about 2 hour stints of being wide awake in the middle of the night.  YIKES!  But, the light is at the end of the tunnel.  Elliott is now over the sleep regression and now that he's getting more sleep the whining has subsided, at least a little. :) 

Aside from all that, Elliott continues to amaze us every day.  His list of words continues to grow.  He now says mom, dad, ball, up, hot, bottle, baby, duh-ah (tractor, or really just any vehicle), more, hat, apple, doh (go), no, wow, duck, and bat. We also found out this week that Elliott can point out most of the objects in his color book when asked.  This really amazed us because just last week he wouldn't even point to the basketball on the page.   

Love to read!

Eating a whole 6 inch sub. Yes, the whole 6 inches!

One of many wrestling matches with cousin Addison

Story time with some of my coworker's kids