Life with the Normans: January 2013

Monday, January 28, 2013

Last Few Days as 3!!

We are trying to enjoy our time as just our family of 3, but also super excited about becoming a family of 4!! Sunday, I found on Pinterest an idea about numbering balloons 1-10 and hiding them around the house. I decided to take it a step further and attached an activity to each one and Sarah Anne went around the house finding the balloons in the correct order and then complete the activity as she went. So she got to practice her numbers and we got to do fun things as a family. Here are the balloons/activities #1-10.

Balloon #1

Balloon #2 - Play Operation

LET'S PLAY!!

Balloon #3 - Play Snap

Super focused!

Balloon #4 - Make a card/letter for Baby Becca...

It says, "Baby Becca, I love you. You are almost here. Love, Sarah Anne"

Balloon #5 - Eat 3 hearts (we like candy)

Balloon #6 - Dance

Getting down with Daddy....

Like this Daddy!!

Silly gooses!

Balloon #7 - Read a book

Reading with my girl!

Balloon #8 - Make Cookies

YUMMY!!!!

Balloon #9 - Play Go Fish

And apparently take a picture of Daddy!

And Balloon #10 - Play Candy Land (Can you tell we enjoy playing games?)

We have enjoyed these last few days and have tried to make them special. Of course Sarah Anne decided to get sick and has an ear infection in both ears, but we are thankful we caught it so that she can come enjoy time with her baby sister!! Our lives will all change on Wednesday, but we look forward to what God has in store for us as we add sweet Rebecca Anne to our lives!!

Friday, January 25, 2013

Christmas 2012

Ok, we should be all caught up after this post. We were VERY excited to actually be able to celebrate Christmas. Sarah Anne got the flu the week before, which turned into pneumonia, in which her lung function was 6 points away from putting her in the hospital. NOT A FUN TIME. The poor baby was up from midnight Friday night until 6:00 pm Saturday at which point after 3 antibiotics and breathing treatments she knocked out. Thankfully by Christmas Eve she was all better and had been fever free over 48 hours so we were able to move on with our plans. My family had already planned on coming to our house so that worked well. Our church does an AMAZING job with the children's Christmas Eve service and we were honored to be the family they chose to light the Advent candle. Sarah Anne LOVED watching the 6th graders perform the story of Jesus' birth and also singing along with the Christmas carols. It was PERFECT and was topped off by seeing her buddies and some animals.

Lighting the candle.

SO EXCITED about the glow lights.

WE FOUND MOLLY!!!!

Singing Silent Night and holding her light.

The 3 Amigos

They looked at us and said, oh I've got her!! So sweet holding hands though!!

Opening her big pod phone from Bubby!!

Thanks Bubby!!

Amy Monster, let me show you how this works!!

What are we supposed to do now?

Santa likes Mountain Dew with his cookies

OPENING PRESENTS!!!

A trash can for Daddy, here Daddy I will put you in it!!

Mimi's silly chicken!!

Playing Candy Land #1 out of #1,203,459 now.

Waving to the people on the Disney Parade!

Cooking with Nanny!!

Let me try this icing before I put it on the cookie.

Decorating cookies with Bubby, aprons are expected!!!

Merry Christmas 2012!!

Birthday Party for Jesus

This is a tradition that my parents did with my sister and I and I love continuing it with our girls!! We played games, read the story of Jesus' birth, the kids brought "presents" to give to Jesus that they in turn gave to each other, and of course we had cupcakes and sang Happy Birthday to Jesus! It was really neat.

On the ornament hunt!!

Examining ornaments!!

Getting ready to open presents!

Making the Nativity.

Sweet Molly!! Look how much difference a year makes....

2011 Birthday Party for Jesus

Examining the presents.

I love my sweet baby!!! She has gotten so much bigger...

2011

Christmas Prep 2012

So since we are way behind I am trying to slowly go back and update what we did for Christmas! This is a lot of random things, but it is us getting ready for Christmas, going to the Zoo Lights, and going to our friend's house to celebrate Christmas with breakfast for dinner and our pj's! It was a LOT of fun although apparently I didn't take a ton of pictures. Here is what we have....