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December- From my Phone

We started off December with finding out we were going to have another nephew!

I really love when our house is decorated for Christmas

 

Chloe potty trained herself- and yes, it’s been as awesome as it sounds

We celebrated Christmas bright and early with the Granger Owings family at the Capital City Club.  Thankful that these two were on their best behavior!

Some mornings it’s great to have an iPad

Callie wrote out her entire Christmas list thanks to her LeapFrog speller

Me and the girls attended an auction with G-Kat and Papa.  We bid on some fun things!

Visiting Circa and spotted Sally the Salamander

the annual EAGC Christmas Dinner with my ‘sister’

Elf Jack had some late night fun while the girls weren’t there :)

Me and the girls had several daddy-less dinners, retail hours during Christmas is crazy

Annual bake day- We make more and more each year!

Sleeping beauties

Chloe LOVES Doc, and he loves her food droppings.  Chloe insisted Doc ride with us to pick up Callie from school, he does NOT like car rides

matching outfits, holding hands, shopping in Target- can it get much better than that?!

An early Christmas present for the ‘adults’ in this house- new appliances!!

The girls were fighting a snotty nose and cough for a while so I took them in right before Christmas.  Thankful I did- both got on antibiotics!

Searched high and low for a gingerbread house and finally got two for the girls to decorate

Cousin fun!

December wore us out.  We had no schedule, rarely a nap in our bed, but had a LOT of fun!

Sick visit

Being sick right before Christmas is no fun.  Chloe was on antibiotics already for an ear infection, however I didn’t think it was working.  Callie was having a nasty cough also, so before Christmas got here I took both the girls in to get a check up.  Apparently everyone else in Columbia had the same idea, cause they were all there too.  We made the most of our hour long visit…

we read lots of books

lots of silly faces

and checked our eye sight

after the girls were finally seen, we headed to the pharmacy to pick up BOTH of their new prescriptions.  Gotta love a bug that over stays their welcome…

Our Christmas Card

This year I had a vision of what I wanted our card to look like and it about drove me crazy trying to make it happen!  The first day we went to take pictures it was FREEZING, so the girls were complaining the whole time and I didn’t love any of the pictures.

Then the second trip to try and take them they were putting up the Christmas tree at the State House and I was afraid I’d get those huge white trucks in the picture, which in the end you wouldn’t have been able to see.  So, the third and final trip we got one that would work, out of a bunch of out-takes!

We even had a few onlookers, maybe making sure I didn’t let my kids run out into Main St….

I love the way it turned out and that it shows the girls personalities off!

Potty Training, or not

Chloe has decided that she no longer wears diapers.  She literally woke up and now refuses to wear a diaper.  We totally skipped the potty training part of the whole process.  I have no idea if that is even normal, but it’s working!  She tells me when she needs to go potty and has only had a couple of accidents since her decision.  When she sets her mind to something, world you better watch out because she means to see if through!  We are now a house that doesn’t have any diapers (except at night) and that feels odd to be honest.  Four years of changing a little one’s diaper every day to not has been a nice change of pace.

Way to go Chloe, you make this momma proud!

First day diaper free

Levi’s little….

When Levi was just over 3 months old, Kelsey and DR found out that they were going to have another baby!  It was finally time to find out what they were having and Kelsey asked if I could watch Levi for them while they went to the Dr. to find out.  The day before though we took a poll to see what everyone thought they would have, Callie and I guessed girl, Chloe and Vaughn guessed boy.

So that morning came and Levi went with us to school while they went to the Dr.  Callie loved having him ‘take’ her to school!

A little later Kelsey came buy to pick Levi up and told me what they were having…

a BOY!

How fun!!  Even though I guessed girl, a boy couldn’t be more perfect!

A little while later they settled on his name, Jude August Granger.  He’ll be affectionately called JAG by his Aunt Erin :)  Cannot wait to meet sweet JAG in early May!

November from my phone

The girls have really enjoyed sharing a room, however getting them to be sleeping angels take a little longer than it used to

I tried a new recipe from Pinterest, and it was YUMMY- Lasagna Soup

love our morning snuggles!

squeaky clean

Callie got her school pictures back 1. It’s my favorite so far 2. She’s just beautiful 3. She looks so much older that my heart hurts a little every time I look at it, in a good way

I broke down and we listened to our first Christmas song, Mariah Carey Christmas gets me every time!

no nap in bed = late afternoon cat nap on the couch

Hers and Hers rain boots

color blocking at it’s finest

Welcome to Moe’s!  Gotta love a kids eat free lunch date with this lady

only to follow up with a “I’m not going to nap so I’m going to throw my self on the floor and cry for two hours” nap time

Right before Thanksgiving we had some of our friends from Nashville come into, love catching up with them!

Thanksgiving laziness at it’s finest with the Granger boys

House Divided!  (Go Tigers!)

Before the game started, we were still friends

He made up for my loss, his victory, by treating us girls to OHOP

getting our tree!

my favorite pictures: Me, Callie, and Chloe with my dad when we were all 1 reading Forbes magazine

Christmas decorations exploded in our house

I ordered/bought Callie a pair of pants for the first time in probably a year.  She said she liked them, now if she’ll wear them….

Levi got to come with us to school one morning while his mommy and daddy went to find out if he was having a brother or sister!