Happy Birthday Little Mya!

Our little Mya turned 1, on January 20th.  Yep, I'm way behind, I know it. 

Mya is our most cuddly baby.  She gives great hugs, and actually puts her arms around you and squeezes.  She loves to be held, and has to see everything that is going on.  Mya loves her older sisters, for a while, until they get in her way or start mauling her.  She started walking between Randy and me at 11 months, but really walking on her own a couple of weeks ago.  She got her first tooth 4 days before her birthday, and popped out 3 more within the 2 weeks after that. Mya is mischievous, loves to tease, make silly faces, and dig in dirt.  Mya is also a terrible sleeper and has kept me awake for over a year now.  She has been found unrolling toilet paper and splashing in the toilet water multiple times.  Despite that gross fact, we love her!  Happy Birthday Baby!

Tis the Season, part 2

 Sorry, this is taking me so long to post....   Ok, So, this is the rest of what happened over Christmas.

Santa Came, of course.

 Kenadi and Emma have been wanting umbrellas forever.  I don't know why this obsession with umbrellas, but we finally gave them theirs.  I don't think they've had a chance to use them yet, but they love them.

 Grandma and Grandpa Jensen always give the girls beautiful Christmas dresses.

 They love being fancy. Well, I don't think Mya cares for it, but the older two do.

 Mya found the rest of the cookies that Santa forgot to eat, and she finished them off for us.

 Kenadi got the full Rapunzel get-up, and carried around this pan for the day too.  I thought it was funny that she even picked out my cast iron pan.  She knew the difference.  I made her trade out for a lighter pan just in case it got dropped on someones head or toes.

Mya loved her little builder balls that she opened from Grandma and Grandpa Simonson first.  She didn't want to look at anything else after that.

 There were lots of play times with the train set.  I think all of the girls like playing trains or cars to some degree, but Emma is so infatuated with trains and cars, that mostly this was to placate her.

Kenadi got to be the bed model for all of the girls' new quilts made for them by Nana (supported by Papa =) ).  These are their first quilts that fit their twin beds completely.  Sad, but true.  Don't worry though, up until now they've been using Randy's and my old blankets from college, so they haven't been cold.

 We had a nice trip to the Science museum.

 Lots of nice sunny days.  It has not really felt like winter this season.

 We did have a few cold days though.

 We did our yearly tradition of going to the Kingfisher lights, and riding on their cute train.

Tis the Season! (Part 1)

Here are a few things we've done this season:

a trip to the cabin and a nice hike in the woods

 Decorated our trees

 Most of the decorations ended up on one branch

 Took a few family pictures

 Decorated gingerbread cookies

 Saw Baby Jesus at Journey to Bethlehem

 Raked leaves

 Made a gingerbread house from scratch (never again!  we will now buy the kits)

Spent many days and nights at our church's creche

To be continued...

All these things I made

I had this great idea to make everyone's gifts this year and shop less.  Well, I did shop a little less, but I stressed myself out making everything in the last 2 weeks before Christmas.  So, next year I will be either buying everything, or making it all year.  Here are some pictures of my hard work.  Evidence of late, late nights with little sleep.

 Emma's monkey

 Monogramed blankets.  These were really easy, I should have done more of this.

 Mya's blanket.  Well, this one was started before she was born, and I finally decided to finish it for Christmas.  

 I made a pair of these for all of our moms, and my sister who's name I had.

 Kenadi's bed canopy.  (Where did all of her blankets go?)

 Bike Seat cover for Randy, and a leg strap for his pants when he's riding.

Whew!  I think that's it.

Overheard:

  Emma loves to sing while she's playing, walking, sleeping, eating, well...  you get the picture.  So, while she was playing in the living room one day I heard her sing, "Pa rum pum pum pum! Rum pum pum pum! Poker face!"  I hate to admit it, but Poker Face by Lady Ga Ga is her favorite song, and she even knows it's by Lady Ga Ga.  I can only link her even knowing the song from that dance video game we played at our friend's house last Christmas, since we don't even listen to it ourselves.
  Anyway, I have lots more to post and I will do it soon, but I thought I'd give you a little snack before I pull out the big post.  It's been a while!   Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!