My Favorite

I'm so not ready for another baby, but I really loved being pregnant and the birthing process. How fun to meet your beautiful new babe for the first time. I just found this picture and it makes me so happy, although I look huge!

Evie

Evie is getting so big! She started nursery and Asher is now in sunbeams with me. The nursery leader commented on how opposite they are, and it’s true. She is just content and quiet and independent. She won’t really talk. I’ve noticed a few attempts. Like when she wants to brush her teeth she says “shh” for brush, and the other day I heard “goo” when geese where flying over our house.  She just learned how to jump. She loves it. She just bounces until she finally lifts her feet off the ground. She is in love with Baby Einstein. But it has to be the one with all the animals. She knows all the animal sounds and would watch it over and over if I’d let her. She has the greatest cheese smile whenever I tell her to look at me, even if it’s just to clean her face.
She just got her first haircut! Kristi did a beautiful job! It's an adorable bob. I don't have very good after pictures so you'll just have to believe me!

She also loves to read. She'd rather look at a book than play with any toy.

She is our adorable girl!

Asher

He’s the cutest boy “I’ve never seen!” This is how he expresses when things are really great. He still has the strongest personality ever! He insists on wearing my boots. They go up to his knees and he wears them EVERYWHERE! I finally ended up buying new boots for myself because they are so stinky and gross! This is only part of his permanent wardrobe. He will only wear 3 specific shirts. Nothing important about these shirts, they’re just the ones he wants. So he has a full closet of things he won’t even try on. He also will only wear shorts. I have to convince him to put pants on whenever we leave the house. It is very cute to only see about an inch of leg between his boots and his shorts, but it’s just not the season for his new trend. On the rare occasion he will put underwear on, he still insists they’re backwards. He wears gloves all day long- and why shouldn't’t he, he’s probably freezing with his shorts and t-shirt.  It’s awesome! He loves chicken. Everything good is "like chicken". A few months ago, before the boot obsession obviously, he was trying on shoes at the store and I asked him how they felt, and he replied, "feels like chicken".  I knew he loved them.  He is currently obsessed with garbage cans. Every where he goes he wants to know if they have a garbage can and what color it is and if it has wheels (?).
We built a snowman the other day. He put an extra glob of snow on the snowman's chest. I asked if that was his heart and he informed me it was not, but another part of the anatomy. He was quite upset when I wouldn't let him finish adding parts to this, apparently transgender snowman.
He also occasionally has an imaginary pet chicken. He likes me to invite the "little yellow chicken" to dinner and ask if he wants pajamas on. He's defiantly not lacking personality.

Happy belated....

Okay, I missed Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. I didn't even send Christmas cards this year! So let me just give glimpses of the holidays.

Halloween was great. Evie was a beautiful fairy/ ballerina, (I don't know what she really was just a tutu and wings, whatever that adds up to), and Asher was the meanest pirate ever. Thanksgiving was terrific. Kiel came from Oregon and we split the day between Cindy's and Klare's. I wish all my family could've been here. Maybe another year.
Christmas was so fun. The kids are such a great age for the excitement of Santa. All Asher wanted was a "way big gun to shoot bugs and monsters." So when Asher woke up he saw all the gifts then said oh-no and ran to the front door. He poked his head out and said "Maybe Santa had to go to everybody else's house and then will come back and give me a way big gun." Once he found his way big gun, he picked it up shot it a few times, and hasn't really picked it up since. I don't know if he imagined it so much better or if it was just the idea of the gun he like, but he doesn't really care about it and hasn't asked for a different one. Evie loved her princess slippers and wants to wear them always. It was a great Christmas! Our camera is broken... again, so I don't have any pictures of Christmas- way sad.