Stages of a Kiss

How many steps are there when you give or receive a kiss in your house?There used to be 2 steps in our house, a kiss, and then patting it in. This started because Jayce would periodically receive a kiss, and then wipe it off, giggling, knowing that this would entice us to come back and give him more kisses. We started patting them in, so that they would stick, and not be able to be wiped off. We've done this for months.But in the past month, Jayce...

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Seven Months and Sitting

Seven sweet months, my dear.Sweetie, you still aren't sleeping.  I remember at 3 months when I was like, "You are still waking once a night for a night time feeding, we've got to get you sleeping through the night!"Once a night!!  (Insert me laughing, deliriously.)Since October, you are usually up 3 or more times a night.  First it was teething, then a road trip "that messed up your schedule"-or so we tell ourselves, then a sinus infection,...

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Christmas Evening

After our leisurely morning of opening gifts, we showered and headed to John and Michelle's for dinner.The food was delicious. Afterwards, everyone traded off playing "big game hunt" or something like that. Basically a deer hunting game for the Wii. Mom was also playing a card game with Chloe at the time, hence the Mickey ears.Chelsea and I took an obligatory arms length shot, reviewed it, both declared, "Eww," but kept it anyway.We got home,...

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Christmas Morning Catch Up

I do realize that it has been nearly a month since Christmas.  But we have had a surge of craziness around here.  Sick kids, sick husband, second Christmas, traveling out of town, traveling out of country, Chelsea coming in town, birthdays and overall busyness.  As of this week, life will settle back down for a little bit and I'll be catching up on here.I know I say that a lot, but really, I will.These photos are from our Christmas...

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