The begining of december

As usual our december was crazy! We started the month with Grandma angee's birthday. I made a pineapple upside down cake and we played games... Caleb managed to eat all the cherries off the cake before we got around to cutting it. Here was his sly face...

My big christmas princess

This was caleb's first real encounter with snow. It was barely enough to shovel (and if our house wasn't north facing I probably wouldn't have) He liked it at first but then it got bitter cold and he started screaming!! He refused to wear gloves and insisted on touching the snow so he did get pretty cold. Needless to say we haven't been out in it much since. (not that we really have gotten any snow...)

Caleb has recently learned that it is fun to hide and then jump out and say "boo, i ssssscare ewe" Its been a very fun game to play and he is always looking for a good place to hid,

 

The laundry basket... Nope

Mommy's cutrians! (classic standby)

Boo

I sssscare ewe mommy!

Caleb also decided that he is interested in the potty and will tell us when he poops, so far we haven't done anything on the toilet yet but i'm not pushing! He recently LOVES trains and santa is strongly considering that he got the wrong gifts this year.. oh well more on the christmas update later. He is also talking up a storm and has learned, little spider, i am a child of god, tinkle star and most of the abc song. His favorite book is brown bear and the dr seus B book.

 

Madi is very sad that school is out for winter break but is looking forward to her birthday party and chirstmas. She shares her birthday with her friend Syndie and they had a fun tea party lunch at school to celebrate. Madi is excelling in school and making us strongly consider her options for next year. (her preschool teacher says that if we can't get her into kindergarten for the next school year we need to keep her out of preschool because she is already bored...maybe homeschooling would be a good option who knows...) She is reading very well now and has mastered all the pre-reading, level 1 and level 2 books.(again santas mistake he got all level 2 books thinking that he was being smart and was going to get her something to challenge her...) She is currently working on the level 3 "mini chapter books" Her writing is also getting better and she was able to write out our family christmas cards to grandparents! She loves playing with her brother and has become a very good helper with him.

Thanksgiving

We had our annual Haynie family Thanksgiving at Tom and Kathys. This year it was great to share the holiday with my parents, Ashley, Pam, Gordon, and Pams mom.

Proof that they were all there (no one wanted their pictures taken...)

The boys playing with balloons

Grandpa was showing the girls how to hand feed the birds peanuts.

All the yummy food prepers

We always have a gorgeous table set up

This year Kathy took out all her mothers old china to use. It was beautiful.

These girls love their baby cousin Nona

The 'kids" table. All the siblings and their kids sat here and enjoyed a crazy fun meal.

My veggie turkey. I also made some beautiful looking pies but I didn't get any picture of them.

The kiddos in their thanksgiving best

This kids favorite toy, a balloon!

Love my adorable kiddos

Trouble!

 Caleb has learned to use his stool for EVERYTHING. One day when I wouldn't pick him up he brought his stool to my feet, stood on it, and tried to climb me... Anyway here his is trying to get some juice boxes I put on top of the fridge. When the stool didn't work he grabbed sissy to help.

1 o'clock church is HARD!! After church we are trying to get dinner ready and both kids are usually so tired that we also have to keep them entertained and awake. Caleb found a cookie cutter and my beans and was having a great time "making" pumpkins.

santa breakfast

We met santa for breakfast again this year. It was a lot of fun and we even got a special one on one with Santa when we passed him going into the mall. (he was a really good santa and stopped to talk to the kids even though he was in a hurry to get to his sleigh)

Suprisingly Caleb was not afraid at all. He had a fun time

The disney dance party after santa arrived

 

My little santa bears

Madi won first place in the dance competition

One of santa's helpers came to live with us. He jumped into my purse while we were at santa's welcome breakfast. Here is Caleb discovering our friend Misletoe

Candy Cane limbo

Silly siblings

My kids LOVE the limelight and they are ALWAYS competing for the spotlight.  They will stop at nothing to get eachother to laugh. Caleb now will always copy what Madi does and then the 2 of them will laugh hysterically at what ever the incident was.

Enjoying Halloween suckers

Here Madi was putting Caleb "to bed" while they were playing house. (a favorite activity lately) He was willingly allowing her to take off his shoes and socks.

This is a grumpy night. I think the picture is hilariouse because they make the same faces and even their feet are alike.

Madi telling Caleb all about the 'first snow' and why Bailee loves it so much

I have no clue how this started but Madi will sit in the bathroom and they will pass books under the door all while screaming and laughing. They are crazy what can I say? But at least I know where they are and can make dinner in peace...

Again, really there isn't much to say about this. Caleb is just a goof, I really don't know where he learns these things. And of course Madi has to show her pizza as well. And yes they were eating pizza for breakfast! These kids will eat pizza for every meal every day of the week if I would let them.

This is also a common scene while eating at the table. Bailee drooling, staring, waiting for Caleb to feed her. (which he always does when shes around. I think he feels bad for her or something)

wait for it....wait for it...