Christmas

First things first, because it looks like I missed the month of November here are few pictures from school and Thanksgiving!

These were taken at school. Yes, we do get a lot of questions asking if they are sisters, lol.

Wish we could get them to stand this still for pictures.
We MUST SHARE!!

No doubt about it Astoria LOVES her Pops. Anytime he's around she's got close tabs on him. She loves to get up in the chair with him and just sit. Sometimes longer than she's ever sat with me.

Yep, she's going to be a lefty!

Coming and going. The girl is NEVER still.

DECEMBER

In December we went to our first live show. The girls are in love with Yo Gabba Gabba! They danced the ENTIRE show! I know there is no educational value and the show is a little creepy but Astoria is all about the music of any show she watches. Even on Elmo's world she'll sit and listen to the songs, but once they are over she's up and moving. Oh, and Elmo Live comes in March, we'll be there :)

Nana made their amazing outfits and Astoria, when asked where Foofa was, knew exactly where she was, on the front of her shirt.

Christmas was a blast this year. Astoria totally understood what it meant to unwrap gifts and of course know that they were hers (or in her terms "MINE"). Next year I have a feeling Santa will be a little bit more understood. The first time visiting Santa this year was horrific. The next time she saw Santa her and Olivia 'talked' to him from afar. The next time her and Olivia went and sat on his lap like he was an old friend (of course this would be the day we were wearing NOTING cute and Christmasy). Most of her Christmas gifts revolved around Elmo. She has quite a bond with 'Melmo' at the moment. She also received a play kitchen, lots of bath paints, music CDs, and a few baby dolls.

The rest are just really cute random pictures from December :)

Yeah, we're still working on this biting thing.

We went to Aunt Paula's church and decorated gingerbread houses.

Concentrating really hard.

We visited Santa's Village in Richardson and saw lots of pretty lights.

Getting around with my monkey on my back.

Got a bike from Nonnie, Grandpa, and Uncle Scott. We are currently riding in the house, by spring I have a feeling she'll have it down.

At Nana's house there is always something fun to do...here they are playing in 'snow' from a box. She loves to be naked and seems to always be missing a shoe!

Helping Nana.

Making cookies with sprinkles (once again using that left hand!).

And what are cookies without a bit of icing?

Astoria still isn't really into dolls but Olivia loves all baby dolls. So when Olivia found one of Astoria's Christmas gifts, a doll with a 'packpack', aka backpack, and put it on Astoria needed one to match. Thanks to Aunt Meredith we found a solution.

Elmo microwave from Aunt Meredith.

She really doesn't like to sit still at all... and to be held, well that doesn't work out too well either.

Ball from Pops. She loved this thing!

Olivia's hippos...eveyone's a winner!

Christmas a Granny's is always fun. She donned the name Cindy Loo Hoo for the evening.
The gift that will last for years to come...A KITCHEN!!

A tea set, she knew exactly what to do and even made drinking noises as she drank from the cup.

All of the cousins!

Hmmm...

Even through all of the bickering, hair pulling, biting, hitting, and shouting, in the end they do truly love one another.

Thank you all for making our Christmas so wonderful!

October in Review

It's amazing how fast a month has gone by yet again. I look back and wish I'd blogged more but instead you get a whole month in review, maybe in November I'll be better! Enjoy!

We did a photo shoot and got some good pictures of the girls in their costumes in the beginning of the month.

For as much as you guys fight you also love one another.

You finally figured out if you moved the stool Granny made you over to the sink you could wash the dishes, you've been 'helping' ever since.

Cowgirl day at school.

Nana and Pops came down and we headed off to the Arboretum wearing shorts in the middle of October, crazy.

Cousin Love

Nana and Pops

Pops whispering something.

Nana chasing you, what we did most of the time at the Arboretum.

Hugging the BIG pumpkin.

Sweet pigtails

Pops and his girls

Us.

Aunt Mere found a bounce house on Craigslist. You and Olivia have bounced everyday since we've had it. The laughter coming out of that bounce house is amazing!

Does it get any better than this?

Nana decided you guys needed to make Halloween cookies.

You liked the sprinkles best.

Haunt the Dallas Zoo, feeding the giraffes.

Aunt Mere getting a little too close.

Olivia danced with the vampire and you decided you needed to be center stage as well.

On Halloween we went to Firewheel Mall. They had ponies there to ride. You liked the ride but refused to touch the horse.

Nonnie and you

Petting the goats.

Picking a duck at the duck pond.

Checking out your candy loot. You wanted to take everything out of your bag. By the end of the night however you knew you were supposed to open your bag to the people and a few times you even said 'thank you'.

Nana, Olivia, and you

Looking at the Halloween cemetery.

It's been an amazing month and I cannot wait to see what November brings!