Our January

Well, certainly the highlight of our January was Macey Jo's 1st birthday! However, we did do other things. But what's a good blog post without pictures of it? As I reviewed the pictures on my camera I discovered most of them are of my sweetie eating sweets!

Homemade cookies are always on the menu at our house. And how good can a cookie possibly be without a glass (or sippy cup) of cold milk? This big girl now drinks milk!

This is what happens when you give a 12 month old a spoonful of peanut butter and Nutella. (Yeah, that's right.)

I think she was eating M&M's in this one. Whatever it was- she is happy!

A good portion of my children's photos when they are young are taken in this high chair. I wish it made a better backdrop...

Well, we don't always load our kids up with sugar, sometimes we do play games!

This is the "Hook" game. Creighton's new obsession. He asks to play it every day. And he has learned how to properly ask questions when he wants something... For example: "Mom, can we play the Hook game? Is it a yes or a no?" He doesn't like when I respond with a "Well, maybe later, I am doing the dishes right now." He just wants you to give it to him straight!

Daddy also took Creighton to the Dollar Store and they bought a piggy bank for Creighton to put all of his "pennies" in. He has quite a bit of change (and loves to pick up any coin he sees and put it in his pocket). They are all pennies however, don't try to tell him otherwise. But he is learning that the toys at the mall require quarters and not pennies...

 Creighton likes to create one large toy from many smaller ones and gives them very practical names like, "the remote control car puller with necklace".

 We love Ariel car.  But rarely is this how it is actually played with.

Normally Macey Jo sits on it backwards and uses her bum to push the buttons and make music.

We love music around here. Creighton is always asking us to dance. Likely that if a video was ever made of me dancing our family could win the grand prize on America's Funniest Home Videos.

 

Creighton likes to make his sister "hiding places" or "pillow houses" or whatever name he decides to come up with which means "take all of the pillows off of the couches, plus the blankets from the bed and create a huge mess in the living room for us to play on". I convinced him one day to pull out the Jake pirate ship from Christmas-past and it would be a good hiding place for sister.

 

Sometimes we take a break from eating sugar and playing do something extraordinary... like sit in the hospital waiting room and wait for our baby cousin to be born!

My sister Whitney had a baby boy, Renner, on January 16th. It was a very special day because it isn't just Renner's birthday, but my mom's too! She was a happy grandma on her birthday! I'm afraid that our birthday gift of a book just didn't really quite measure up to the gift she got from my sister...

Our new little cousin, in the words of Creighton, "is so cute!" But right now he isn't old enough to play with us, so we like when other cousins that can play come to visit!

cousin Tyler

But we may not see Tyler too often if we can't teach Macey Jo to give him some space! She just loves to be in his "bubble". This visit she was de-pantsing him as his parents tried to lift him up high where she couldn't reach him. But Macey Jo is persistent and always get what she wants...

like when she is wrestling her big brother. She really makes him work hard for a win!

 

Oh, February! I love the month of love! Valentine bows have been worn for weeks now with our red and pink outfits! Valentine treats have already been made and cards bought! (And the decorations have been up since the 1st of January...)

Bye-bye January... HELLO February!!

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