winter

Well Lyla is now crawling, it's been about a month now. It all happend in 1 day. She went from sitting like a lump on a log, to given er everywhere, climbing over stuff, standing on everything!! It's great...I have a ton of fun with her.

standing
climbing

crawling

I've been a skating machine!! Mom takes us every week to preschool skating and Dad takes me on the back rink that he made.

practice practice, Dad's got out the drills

helping mom paint the basement

Lyla thought somthing was really funny on her way to the tub

sledding

taking a break for a snack. We have to push the stroller to the pad to skate then we can take the sled out on the ice for Lyla!! What a winter.

aren't I cute

matchers

Christmas 2011

We had a great Christmas... this year everyone was healthy!!! Last year we were all sick, and I ended up in the hospital for 6 nights, it was awful. So this year was a blast. Lots of family time, and hangin out enjoying the beautiful weather. We decided to stay at home for the 2 weeks of holidays since sleeping in hotels and eating in restaurants and the dreaded shopping are a little stressful these days.

We went to a tree farm near Steinbach to get our tree this year, had a sleigh ride, warmed up by the fire and had some snacks.

Decorating the tree with Dad. Mom and I had a lot of fun decorating the rest of the house and listening to christmas music all the time... Lyla missed out on a lot in December. She was working on so many teeth, she was pretty cranky and slept a lot. Some nights she was sleeping by 6:00!

My first preschool christmas concert. I was a little shy, as most of my class were 4 year old boys!!

I sat in my chair, mouthed the words and kinda did the actions. It was cute though!!

Lyla and I in Christmas jammies and santa hats

Lyla's first Christmas

Our first stop, Christmas with Grandpa Frank, Auntie Lana, Uncle Rolly, Ginny & Nate. Aren't we cute in our matching outfits!!

Lyla eating the paper

Opening my leap pad!!!

So over the holidays mom tried to take a lot of pics. 1 out of 100 where we are both looking. Here's a funny 1, with my crazy expressions and hand gestures!!

and another...in our fancy dresses ready to watch the church program

Lyla

Mommy and Lyla

The 4 of us.. Oak, Me, Bella & Lyla

All of us

Opening presents from Oak and Bella

Christmas morning...we were all a little tired

Halle gave Lyla one of her old baby toys instead of buying a ton of new ones. Looks like it was a hit!!

All 4 of us again..Christmas at Grandma Carilee and Grandpa Glenns

Opening presents from Grandma Bev & Grandpa Ron. I finally got my easy bake oven!

A beautiful Christmas smile

Lyla is a little serious as we head out to the last gathering, New Years day christmas with the Peters'

Daddy and his girls

having fun

In December we went to see Disney 3 Princesses. Mom, Dad, Lyla, Auntie Hollie, Bella and I all went. It was great, Bella and I loved it. Probably gonna need to go to Disney on Ice now.

Bella and I, we even got to dress up as princesses.

Cinderella

smiling and dancing in my seat the whole time

Lyla, our little bunny

We had snow for a few days back in November, we're so glad we took advantage of it. The weather has been great and we've been able to be outside a lot, there just isn't a lot to do. Can't wait till we can play in the snow and go sledding!!

Our first princess snowman at our new house!!

Lyla's first snow... lovin it

Christmas baking.. I helped mom make everything

Mommy and Lyla

Canad Inns for Mom's birthday. We had a great time at the waterpark.

waterbabes

Lyla's first swim in a hotel. She swam outside in summer but we hadn't been to a hotel with her yet. She really liked it, she sat in the jumper in the water and the rest of us got to swim.