Two: January 2015

With Christmas here we were lucky enough to spend a lot of time with friends in Colorado and family visiting us. Dom and I got to go to the Ball "ball" this year as his work party. It was at the Denver museum of Nature and Science which was fun to be at without kids since we got to actually look around more. They had food and drinks and music and we had a good time going out while Uncle Erick watched the sleeping kids.

Logan also had a Christmas party for his preschool at the rec center. They created ginger bread houses and then lined up to sing songs. Logan was not wanting to line up to sing but once the songs started he sang along and had a good time whether you could see that on his face or not ;)

showing off his half eaten gingerbread house :)

Daddy and Fiona

Time for Christmas carols

Merry Christmas!

Our first Christmas festivity was the "low key" Christmas party at the Valania's with the Dilley's. We wore ugly Christmas sweaters and had fun doing a white elephant gift exchange between the adults and one between the kids then we all celebrated with some games and flip cup, like we were in college again ;) We got to go to another get together with our neighbors who all have kids around Logan's age. We brought cookies over to Brad and Kristin's and the Tobins came and all the kids had fun playing together. It's nice to have so many nice families in our neighborhood! The day before Logan's last day of school before Christmas break the poor guy got sick and was throwing up...all over the couch, bleck. Luckily it was only a 24 hour bug because he was feeling better the next day but did end up missing school. Fiona got a touch of the bug too but she wasn't throwing up so that was good, just lots of blowouts, still no fun. Everyone was feeling better when Granny Mo got into town, hurray! We had fun spending time with her while she was staying with us a few days.

Ugly Christmas Sweaters

white elephant gifts!

These cute kids!

Christmas Eve rolled around and we went to mass and Fiona did great, she had fun waving at the people around us and laughing while Logan played with her. On Christmas morning Logan woke up and we let him play in our room for a little while to give Fiona more time to sleep before we woke her up and went downstairs with Granny Mo to see what Santa left. Logan got a Baymax action figure and a Boba Fett Rocket Launcher from Santa, just what he asked for. Fiona got a busy ball popper toy and she thought it was great. They both enjoyed their presents from Santa and we had a lot more to go! Uncle Erick came over and we all got to open the rest of the presents. Logan enjoyed opening his presents nice and slow like a Lewis ;) Fiona wasn't so much into the unwrapping or the toys themselves as much as she enjoyed crawling around to find the little pieces of wrapping paper that were left on the floor. The kids were very spoiled by their grandparents this year and got lots of awesome toys. We made our appetizers and had fun playing with new toys then the Valania's came over for a little while. All the kids had fun playing in the play pen with the balls Fiona got for Christmas and everyone enjoyed the ball pit. Fiona got two new walkers and she did great using them, she was happy to walk around the house. She also figured out on Christmas how to go up the set of two stairs that separate the rooms downstairs. Now it's the going down that we need to work on :) I can't remember now if it snowed on Christmas, I think it started later in the day and snowed through the night and for a few more days after. We had lots of snow and a fun white wintry holiday.

Fiona's first Christmas!

Our handsome Logan!

All dressed up for Christmas Eve Mass

Christmas morning, Thanks Santa!

Santa brought Logan this Baymax toy

crawling through the presents

little bits of paper, Fiona's favorite part of Christmas ;)

Still happy to get anything Star Wars!

Santa, Baby

The best gift!

Logan got mommy a trip with him to Elitch gardens when it gets warmer out!

testing out the ball pit

mmm thanks for the meatballs Granny Mo!

Cousins and Christmas Jammies

Granny Mo makes me smile :)

The day after Christmas Auntie Panda came and stayed with us. We had fun going to the aquarium together, Fiona's first time and Logan's "favorite part of the Christmas break" according to him. Fiona enjoyed watching the fish and she would grunt at them the entire time. Mimi and Papa came the 30th and stayed with us as well. The kids got to have a second Christmas opening all the presents from them and the kids enjoyed the process and the gifts just as much! Lucky ducks! We had a good time playing and relaxing with Mimi while Papa and Dominic worked on house projects, the fireplace got re-tiled, a new kitchen sink was installed and the coat closet in the living room was magically turned into the beginning of a small office nook. They did a great job with everything, my husband is so handy :) Fiona has two of her own walkers but had fun playing with Mimi's too, just like baby Logan used to! She had fun teasing Papa and playing keep away with him. We had a good time with everyone and were so happy that we got to see all of our family over the holidays! It was a fun and busy two weeks!

Never too cold for Ice Cream at Sweet Cow :)

Aquarium

Checking out the fish and scuba divers

at the shark tank...

helping Papa open his presents

testing out Mimi's walker

Mimi and Papa!

And for one more comparison shot between Fiona and Logan's first Christmas'. Fiona actually fits in these Christmas jammies Logan has on for his first Christmas, but we went with her own girly version for her first Christmas morning.

Logan's First Christmas 3 months old, 2010. Fiona's First Christmas 10 months old, 2014

Wow there were so many changes this month and a lot going on too, very exciting! We had a great Christmas and were lucky to get to see most of our family in Colorado this year! That, of course, gets its own post! As for Fiona she got better at crawling and learned how to go up the set of two stairs that separate our rooms downstairs. No going down yet though, she does just try to keep on crawling over the edge like she won't tumble down them but we will work on that ;) She was doing a funny thing for a little while too where she'd crawl then straighten her back legs as if she wanted to just stand up but that's as far as she would get. She got some walkers for Christmas and is working on getting around with them, she is doing well! She is seeming so much more grown up these days! She is 17.2 lbs and still 26.5 inches long. She's had a crazy appetite lately, girl is wolfing down food, she doesn't always chew though so she ends up with a mouthful and little chipmunk cheeks! She's found a new love for greek yogurt and meatballs. But really she's a carbs girl. She gets excited to see cheerios :) To help out with all that eating she finally got her front middle tooth on the right side and the one to the right of it on January 11. I can see the middle and left tooth to match on the other side coming also but they haven't broken through quite yet. Other things Fiona has started to enjoy are lift the flap books, touch and feel books which she has always enjoyed but she really loves Pat the Zoo. She enjoys looking at the balloons in the grocery store, they hypnotize her. As always her brother is her favorite entertainment and she loves laughing at him, just seeing him always brings a smile to her face. She's had fun watching Logan and daddy play football and wrestling together. When she gets excited she starts waving her hands up and down and makes an oooo oooo sound, you can see it in her face that she likes what she sees haha. Fiona has been babbling more and more lately, she's got the baba, gaga and yaya sounds down now. Some silly things Fiona has fun doing these days are finding stickers or tape on things and spending all the time in the world picking at it until she gets it off. Well now I know a cheap way to keep her busy ;) She also loves stinky socks... yes the old worn socks that the boys take off and leave on the floor, she will crawl excitedly to them and pick them up like it's a prize, and yes sometimes that prize ends up in her mouth ew. She also has fun playing peek a boo, pretending to talk on my phone- she will lift it, or anything that could be a phone, up to her ear and smile. And if you ask her how big she is she will lift her hands over her head as you say So Big. She is such a doll lately and she is still always just so happy and easy going! It's been fun as she is growing up to see her little personality start to develop. She is keeping us busy and always making us smile!

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