First Smiles

Isaac is developing beautifully and already showing a new side of his personality. I had to post a few close ups of our handsome little boy showing off his grin. Watch out ladies he may steal your heart already!

Lights with Daddy

This past weekend we laid low due to little runny noses and lack of sleep, but we still were able to get outside a little and enjoy the nice weather. Vivi helped daddy hang the outside lights and then came inside and cleaned up the kitchen. Later that night we went to an outdoor nativity play at my parents church. Vivi enjoyed seeing all the animals up close and getting to hold Baby Jesus.

Happy Birthday Jesus

We attempted our first outing sans Daddy to go to a Happy Birthday Jesus Party at the Moffits. Friends from our church organized a little party with cake, a craft, and playtime. It was a sweet time and I'm glad we made it out. We also got to show off some new matching sweaters mommy purchased on-line. Check out a few pics. Thanks for organzing such a fun time Natalie and Toma!

Decorating the Trees

Yes that is decorating the tree's' plural. We have our family tree in the living room but we also had too much fun after Vivi arrived 2 1/2 years ago and got her her own tree. Fortunately, we got it in white so we could add color with ornaments and decorations. We decked that tree out in pink last year but this year we had to add some blue touches for Baby Isaac. Enjoy the slideshow of us decorating both trees. Hope you are having fun getting ready for Christmas too!

I Want Candy

Around our house these days candy has become a new bribery. We have had some left over from Halloween (which we barely even celebrated), Vivi's birthday, and now Christmas is upon us. I wanted to post a couple of shots of Vivi with candy time including playing candyland with daddy, enjoying a lollipop while decorating, and putting the candy canes on the tree. Another candy associated thing, Vivi has taken a new liking to dancing to the song- Lollipop. We had gotten this for her birthday last year, and now she is loving it!

First girl date

I decided to try and start a tradition with Vivi. Now that she has a new sibling that takes a lot of time from mommy and I wanted to have a special time that was just for Vivi and I- our girl date! I decided we would try to once a week or maybe every other week have a breakfast out just the two of us. This past weekend I took her to Chickfila to get the tradition going. Vivi and I enjoyed our chicken biscuits and some time in the indoor playground.

Going Green

The Dons are going green! Not exactly...as you'll see we all wore green one day to prove it's not a total lie. We did come up with one really cool "green" idea though. Actually, our Nana came up with it and helped in the creation. We decided to take boxes from our pantry- think crackers, biscuits, etc. and paint them and create different cars from the "Cars" movie. This is Vivi's favorite movie and we thought it would be a fun project to keep her busy during these first few weeks with Isaac. I think Nana and I ended up getting into it more than Vivi but she LOVED doing the painting. Here is a shot of our green family and more of Vivi creating cars with Nana and the finished project.