Santa

Last Friday we headed out to the Lights At the Zoo. I love going with the girls, seeing their faces with all the decorations is priceless. While we were there we came across Santa! I didn't know he would be there and since we didn't get to see him at PJ's this was perfect. Callie was so excited to finally get a meeting with St. Nick. We discussed what she would say- "Two Teddy bears, one for me and one for my sister." This is what she has wanted now for a while from him and I really have no idea why. So, it was our turn to see him, Chloe starts screaming (which I knew she would) and Callie walks up, gets in his lap, and puts her hands up to her face because she is so shy! I could see where they talked for a bit but no idea what was actually said. After her time was up she ran to us all excited and said she did tell Santa about the Teddy bears. Santa has it easy this year with our crowd, not sure about in the future, but I think he'll take it for now. :)

PJ’s with Santa

One of our favorite things to kick of the Holiday season is to go to PJ’s with Santa.  We went again this year with high expectations, however, left not knowing if we’ll go back next year.  I’m not a big crowd person, especially with the girls, and this place was crowded.  Also, having little curious hands with expensive merchandise in arms length stresses me out!  I digress…  We walked in and immediately hit up the little gym booth.  The girls loved it!

It took some coaxing to get them out the Little Gym area, so balloons were just that thing!

Love this silly girl!

We walked in to see Santa, however, the line was an 1 1/2hrs LONG! Yikes…. So we settled on Cocky instead, which as you can tell Callie didn’t mind one bit!

We did some arts and crafts

and cookies with a book. 

Then headed home.  Might just take Callie next year, might be a little more manageable… might.

Happy Birthday Jesus

The last day of school before Christmas break, Callie’s class through Jesus a birthday party!  Everyone was in the birthday spirit and happily wore their hats (even Callie!). 

We then sang Happy Birthday to Jesus…

and dug right into cake and goldfish! 

The sugar rush didn’t take long to hit everyone and before you know it giggles and icing were on everyone's faces!

I love being able to come in and see their faces everyday and especially during these fun times!  Can’t wait until our next party

Happy 3rd Birthday Callie!

(Yes, this is two months behind, but I couldn’t not post this!)

We officially have a three year old in the house, our Big Sister turned three!  If she could, Mac would like to really be 4, that’s all she talks about “When I turn four I get gum!”  So turning three for Callie just meant that she was that much closer to four and gum.  For me, sentimental mom, it meant one year older, one year further from the day she was born. 

First Day

Callie is very into reading, singing, dancing, and playing puzzles.  She would also probably watch TV all day every day if I let her, I’m assuming this is a normal three year old thing though- right?!

  One

Callie LOVES her sister, and for that I am so thankful for.  Now that Chloe is starting to walk, she and Callie play very well together.  I don’t think they are far away from sharing a room, Mac is constantly asking for “Kowey” to sleep in her room or vice versa.  She does, however, love the moments when it’s just all about her.  I love it too.  Whenever I can have a moment with just one of my girls, to give her that one on one attention, it’s awesome.  Two

She is really loving school.  When I drop her off in the morning she gets really embarrassed if I stay longer than just dropping her book bag off.  She has only sat in time out once, for taking a toy, but usually comes home with a happy face on her daily report card.  

Mac also really loves dance class and all her little friends in it.  It’s also great when I have a friend in the lobby to converse with while we wait on our little ballerinas!

She’s a daddy’s girl through and through.  He has hung the moon in her eyes, and I never want that to go away.  She’s his little helper, making sure his belts on correctly before he leaves for work, a sous chef when he’s grilling, and makes sure he eats a good dinner at night.  Callie also listens to her daddy better than anyone else.  She knows he means business, I wish it worked that well with me!

Callie loves “mommy’s and daddy’s” schools, not knowing that most of the world must like one or the other.  We’ve worked hard for that, hoping that you’ll grow up to appreciate that USC and Clemson are two great schools- not bitter terrible rivals.

We’re working on her sense of style, we’ll maybe I should say letting her express herself every once in a while with her clothing.  She’d love to wear every color at once, and not exactly in a good way if you know what I mean.  This momma has a hard time some days doing this.  She’s also over wearing bows most days, which breaks my heart because I think they are so cute on her.  Callie does love headbands which is an okay compromise, just trying to keep those curls out of the face!

Unlike Chloe, Callie is not stingy with the hugs and kisses with us.  She is very shy though with strangers and new situations.  We’ve learned to talk about what we are about to do and see way in advance with her and then she does great.

When I think back to all that' we’ve done over the last three years, I feel so blessed at how wonderful it’s been to have this sweet amazing girl on this journey with us.  I can only imagine what the next three years are going to look like and I cannot wait to see this little girl turn into a real big girl! 

Happy Birthday Callie Mac- We Love You!  

Three!

Chloe

Our sweet little ball of fire! She's keeping us busy from sun-up to sun-down

Haircut

It was way past time to get Macs hair cut. However, after the WWE smackdown episode that was her last hair cut, I wasn't looking forward to it. This time I thought we would go with someone that had been a couple times (James) and to Hair Doodles- a kid friendly haircutter. We also decided to get fro-yo before hand to put everyone in a happy mood! All that said it was a success and Mac got a cute cut with no tears!! She's already asking when we can go back, thank goodness. Thanks for the recommendation Helfers! :)

Christmas Pictures!

Last week we had the girls pictures taken by Stacey Quattlebaum with Natural Wonders Photography.  It started out for Callie’s 3 year portraits, then I thought, why not get Christmas pictures done at the same time!?  I’m so glad I did that, because they turned out great and I didn’t have to get frustrated with the girls because they weren’t doing it “just right.”  Here are my favorites, but you can see all of them on her website!

So excited that it’s time to celebrate Christmas with these two!