Saturday, December 11, 2010

Random pictures

Annika playing with Aunt Katie. She was being so cute so I grabbed the camera and of course didn't catch a cute picture again. Sigh...but she is still cute.

Caleb is also incredibly good looking.

So one day I went in and Annika had dressed herself in this:

Then Caleb thought it was hilarious and wanted to wear a shirt on his legs too. I have a fabulous video of him dancing around in a shirt on his legs and would love to post it, but at the end the shirt slips just a little too much to post online. It was just too much of a plumbers crack...Also, Annika has quite the little personality. She's independent and opinionated. She has so many cute clothes. Seriously I just want to dress her up in every outfit she owns and take her picture. However, she has serious preferences and that whole mommy play dress up with her baby doll girl is not going over with Annika and she insists on picking out her clothes. Occasionally I can persuade her that certain things don't match or certain things do...but sometimes we get the outfit like the one she's running around in in the superman video. By the way, Caleb also loved that outfit and said he wanted to buy one like it. I said they don't make outfits like that for boys and he was really disappointed over it.

Annika really likes to help now and I need to be on top of it and establish habits like clearing your place when you eat when she is so eager to help. She can pick up toys very well, help set and clear the table, wash her hands, put her dirty clothes in the laundry room and probably a few other things.


Sunday, December 5, 2010

Decorating for Christmas

Caleb loves plugging in the lights and one night we just played in the dark with a string of lights and the kids were being so cute.








Thursday, December 2, 2010

Thanks Grandma Evie!

Grandma Evie sent us a wonderful Christmas gift--the Illustrated LDS Christmas Songbook and ornaments that were just right for Caleb and Annika to put together. I was so impressed at the way Caleb did it all by himself. He looked at the picture and figured it out! I started out helping him then went to help Annika and he did it himself and didn't want more help. Annika couldn't leave her sticky things on and just wanted to put them on and take them off again. Way fun. Thank you so much Grandma Evie! The ornaments are hung prominently on the tree and the book is on the piano.