praise: auburn and landon both slept well last night. which means-so did i.
prayer: auburn seems to have an infection of some type. dr. appt. today at 2:15.
playfulness:
my brother came over to help me paint landon's room. that was a big help. kids are thoroughly enjoying having their own rooms to play in. they had a hard time adjusting to sleeping in separate rooms, but are doing much better with it now.
both kids love to play on landon's bunk bed. we've moved his matress to the top and will be creating a "reading center" underneath for him.
we celebrated Christmas on the 18th at my parents'. kids loved their gifts. here's a few pics.
auburn received the doll from my brother and his girlfriend, amanda. she still loves it as much as the picture shows-plays with it every day.
when we got home, the kids opened a few more gifts. my parents had bought landon some gifts at herrods when they were in london, but didn't want his cousins to see it since they were opening gifts later. so, we brought them home to open. we also let auburn open her gift from my grandparents since it went with her doll.
one of landon's gifts was a puzzle car track. you can rearrange the pieces to make different tracks and a little car travels the track. landon decided that mr. incredible needed to jump all over the track while the car was moving.
auburn loved her cradle from my grandparents.
here's a pic of auburn in her new sweater (also from my grandparents). i let her pick out her outfit and she picked the purple sweater.
this is one of my favorite pics of auburn. she looks beautiful in this new outfit. notice the gloves. she and landon received new mittens in their stockings, and they both insisted on putting them on when they opened them.
we celebrated christmas with mom smith and jon on the 24th. landon was awed by the presents under the tree when he came out.
of course, candy is always a big hit with landon. especially a wonka bar (from grandma smith). landon loves watching the old charlie and the chocolate factory.
auburn received two new jumpers from grandma smith. she immediately tried to put her pink one on.
landon received clothes and mcdonalds food toys from my grandparents. he plays with the food all of the time.
we got auburn a baby doll carriage. landon discovered that you could ride in it. unfortunately for him, we told him he was too big. auburn loved the rides.
one of landon's stocking items was an old maid game. landon, dave and uncle jon were very cute sitting at landon's new table playing the game.
the first time dave and landon played in the snow-they made a large tunnel/fort. after many days of it melting, they decided they needed to go out and destroy it.
they then played in the remains. landon enjoyed throwing snowballs up in the air.
this ball was almost too big for landon to pick up, and he didn't get it very far in the air.
i guess you could call their next creation a totem pole. if you look closely at the top, it kind of looks like an eagle.
this creation didn't last long either.
auburn cried almost the entire time he was outside. she still doesn't have any boots that fit. i need to go get her some.
that's all for pictures right now. if i remember some of the funny things landon has said recently, i'll post them. i've gotten out of the habit of writing them down-as a result, i never remember them.
have a great day!
