Christmas part 2

Santa brought presents at the kids party and Danica and Whitney got an Easy Bake Oven. They have loved it!!! Now that Danica can read all I have to do is make sure they don't dump water all over the place.

Just a sampling of the many presents people got us this year. Don't you like the bow?

I think this was Dave's favorite present - he is now insisting that next year all his presents go under his tree.

Grandma sent beautiful dresses for the girls.

Dallin was quite pleased with his Mickey Mouse collection he got. This is just one of them.

Whitney wouldn't put this one down. She was having a blast drawing the pictures.

Since we didn't have time before Christmas, we decorated our Gingerbread houses the day after Christmas. My sister was visiting and we had a great time. Danica had help putting her house together, but then she decorated it all herself. She was very pleased with her work.

The finished product:

my house. and my sister's house

This is Danica's house. She did a great job!!

christmas part 1

Our holiday festivities started with all the Christmas Parties. Dave and I went to his work party, then we went to our ward party, and then to another work party for the kids. Here's some pics of the kids with Santa at our ward party. They all had a blast. No crying this year.

Danica wants a bedroom set for her dollhouse


Whitney wants a Cinderlla doll

and we still don't know what Dallin wanted.

Then we decorated the tree. These are the only pictures I have because I spent most of the night cleaning up broken glass. Never put a tree with glass ornaments on a tile floor. YIKES

Whitney got to put the angel on the top this year. As you can see she has shoes on because of all the broken glass. But we still had fun decorating the tree. Whitney kept putting all the ornaments in the same spot so Dave and I had to do "crowd control" later that night.

Dallin update

Hi all,

This post is more for me to mull over the situation. but feel free to comment as you please.

Dallin had his one month check this week, and according to his doctor he is very healthy, hydrated, etc. etc. etc. The only problem is that is is only 7 pounds. Yes - his birth weight.

The shortened story is that he was born at 7 lbs, one week later was 6 lb 9 oz. at two weeks he was 6 pounds 10 oz and now at 5 weeks is back to 7 pounds.

He has grown an inch in length, sleeps well at night as long as he is in our bed (he likes the company I guess, or it may just be more comfortable than the pack-n-play)

Anyway, there are many similarities between Danica and Dallin except that Dallin is perfectly happy.

The othe difference is that he won't take a bottle after he's done nursing. Which is why the doctor thinks he is getting enough. We go back next week to weigh him again to see if he just has been taking a while to increase my milk supply since it took him three weeks to figure out how to eat efficiently.

Thanks for listening, any advice, tips etc for increasing milk would be great.

She's 3

It's hard to believe that 3 years have passed since this little firecracker entered our lives. She's had to have things her way since the begining. In fact, she decided to come during Dave's finals. He missed his class presentation and then an hour or two after she was born he bolted to take two finals.

She went from this little bundle to this wild child.

She ended up having a TinkerBell birthday although we didn't really plan it that way. She actually wanted a pink princess cake, but this is what I could do in the half hour I had to decorate her cake. Dave and Danica picked out her presents and got her all TinkerBell toys, and then he aunt gave her tinkerbell hair things and jewlery. (I forgot to rotate this picture - sorry)

Getting ready to blow out the candles.

Happy Birthday Whitney!!