Fun Pics from January

One morning, Eric woke up before Joe and I did, turned on the movie "Cars", situated himself on the couch with a blanket and a toy, and stuffed as many Nilla Wafers into his mouth as possible until we woke up and caught him.

Everyone always has cute pictures of their babies falling asleep in their highchairs...my kids have never done it!  Until now...

Joe felt sorry for her and let her snuggle with him on the couch :)

This also happened before we knew the kids were awake...

San Francisco Zoo.  This was Wendy's first time actually noticing things so we took her out of the stroller for a while.  The penguins are always a favorite.

Grizzly bear...

Eric also appreciated the water fall in this exhibit...

The zoo has a playground.

Eric inspecting my teeth with a little mouth mirror with a light on it...

Definite cookie monster....possible future dentist?

NEWSFLASH:

Wendy walks!!!!!! Woohoo!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olIweIDM2zI&feature=share

New Years in Oak-town

We are constantly grateful that our families live close to each other so we can split our holiday breaks with both of them every year.  After we spent Christmas with my family, we headed on up to Joe's family to spend the next week including New Years with them.  We had such a fun time! Eric was pretty sick the whole week with croup.  Poor little boy, he was such a trooper and was so sweet and tried to have fun.  This caused us to have a pretty relaxed week...thank you Grandma and Grandpa Keyes for being so patient with us!

Luckily Eric didn't spread his sickness to Wendy even though they were in close quarters and even sneaking sippy cups to each other.  Such a blessing!  So of course, Grandma Keyes put Wendy to work. Her job was the dishes and she loved it. :)

Not very flattering picture but it was a time when Eric wasn't lethargic.  He sure loved playing with all of Uncle Dallin's fun toys.

From time to time Wendy felt a little home-sick so we got creative with ways to occupy her.

With the kids feeling so tired and Eric being sick, we thought it best to not take them out into the cold to watch the fireworks where they would just complain and get sicker.  From time to time Eric would come out to the window and enjoy the cool fireworks.  Otherwise, they were very happy snuggling in our bed and watching Cars 2.  This is from when I checked on them.  Neither of them moved an inch. (peeking through the door. :))

Thanks Keyes Family for conforming to our needs and vegging with us!  We had a great time just hanging around with you!

Christmas in B-town

We spent Christmas with my family this year and it was so much fun.  LIke usual, there were times when the kids got a little homesick so we had to do things like watch Wendy's all time favorite movie Tangled with her favorite blanky.

Dancing.

Eric did so well and loved all of Grandma and Grandpa's fun toys.

Fell asleep and slouched over.

Christmas morning being embarrassed my his mom's enthusiasm.

Loot.

Wendy found the good stuff.  Not only is it chocolate but it's chocolate fro Eric's stocking.  Way better.

Sneaky girl.  She must be our child.  She likes martinelli's.

Caught in the act of playing in Grandma and Grandpa's fancy living room in a glass table with their Christmas decorations.

They are blocks after-all.

Tis the Season

Yup, this is our Christmas tree this year.  First of all, we needed an advent calendar, and second, we will be gone for half the month.  Hence - our fun Christmas tree!  We love it.

We're excited for Christmas!

I have to document the first time in a very long time when Eric and Wendy are in arms reach of each other and aren't at each other's throats. :)

We are constantly amazed by how snuggly Wendy is.  Seriously.  It's so nice.  Btw, Grandpa Pitcher, she also loves when we stroke her back.