For our last Side by Side meeting of the semester, we met to decorate Christmas cookies. Thanks to Kayla for organizing and making dozens and dozens of delicious sugar cookies! The last few years I have thought a LOT about the traditions I want my family to have, and I think in the end I landed in trying to make the most of the everyday-seemingly-small moments, and taking every opportunity to make or do festive things, but not at the expense of peace and rest in our family (and I think this threshold looks different for every family, and even in different seasons within that family)! So this year, I made a wish list instead of a to-do list (much less pressure for this recovering perfectionist mama), and decorating cookies with James was on it. So glad for this opportunity to do it with Side by Side!
Casey had a work meeting and no childcare available one morning, so Ezra came to hang with us on a morning nature walk. #BFFs
Because of our Christmas tree moving into the space in front of our front window in the living room, this toddler table got booted out into the kitchen. At first I was really annoyed by the space it took up in the middle of the kitchen, but now I sort of love it in there! The boys have a great place to eat, snack or work (the hard work of coloring with markers or cutting paper) while I work in the kitchen (which is a lot these days - not only meals (in fact, rarely meals, ha) but a lot of baking and experimenting... and I'm loving it!). The table may end up staying in there for good.
Some painting to pass the time on a rainy day. This was Samuel's 1st time finger painting (he didn't love it because he couldn't eat the paint).
Spending some time at the Museum of Life and Science on another rainy day... Snakes!
We've all had some sort of cruddy virus for about 10 days. Poor little Sam doesn't handle colds well. He gets wheezy and a croup-y type cough that is just pitiful. At the peak of the cold, he was sleeping almost 20 hours a day between night time and naps. I think we've almost kicked it, though!
Captured this most beautiful sunrise one morning. When James sees a sunrise or sunset, I tell him that God painted the sky for him, and "LOOK! He even chose your favorite color."
Some photos from James' 3 year check up - they did vision and hearing testing and James thought they were super fun games! He did pretty great at following instructions and they were even able to get reliable results (our sweet nurse said that often they start at 3 years, but kids aren't able to understand or follow directions). Proud mama :)
Lots of fun around here lately (if we could just kick this cold...)!
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