Autumn as a Mommy

Tonight we got a glimpse of Autumn's parenting style...

Mickey Mouse!

We gave Autumn a piece of toast and after a few minutes of eating she yells "Mickey Mouse" and holds up her bread. She had eaten it in a way that left a Mickey Mouse shape. Wonder who she'll create tomorrow?

Autumn's "Senior Portrait"

Jim took this photo and thought it looked like a senior photo pose...

Mickey's House!

Autumn woke up from her nap and must have heard an airplane flying over the house...I came in and she said "airpane gone to Mickey's House". Pop taught her that all "airpanes" go to Mickey Mouse's house and I guess she remembered that when she heard the plane.

Sleep!

Evan has decided that he wants to sleep during the day...he was going to bed between 2-3am and then it jumped to 5am and this morning it was 9:30am. Come on, little one, give Mama and Dada a break or no Christmas presents for you!

Birdie

Tonight Autumn had a blast with a piece of tissue paper and a paper towel roll. She ripped the tissue paper into a million different pieces and shoved them in the paper towel roll, took them out, and put them back in for a straight hour. But the best part was when she arranged the tissue paper bits in a circle on a plate and then put her bird in the middle and came and showed me the "bird nest" and told me the "bird eat bird seed - teet, teet, teet" (she can't say "tweet"). I was impressed!

Third Choice

Autumn woke up from her nap and first called for Elmo to come get her out of her crib. When he didn't come she called for Baby Evan. And when he didn't come either, she called for Mama. Glad I'm the third choice, especially when preceeded by a silly red muppet! Minus one Christmas present for her!

Big boy!

Evan went for a well-visit today and he's a whopping 10lbs 7oz! That's a big praise since we've been having so many issues with breastfeeding and lack of weight gain in the prior weeks! He's in the 50th percentile for weight and head circumference and the 75th for height - the same as Autumn has been! How is it that our kids are in the "taller" range?

St. Nick's Day

Biddy and Grammy brought us our St. Nick's Day stockings. Autumn was most interested in the candy and smooshed Mama's coconut cream filled candy and ate half of the other one...here she's eying up Dada's chocolate! Evan's thinking "I get my half of the coconut cream candy later"!

More Snow Fun!

We went up to Biddy's house to play in the snow. Autumn loved just sitting in the snow and eating it.

Snow Fun!

Autumn went out to play in the snow tonight...she loved it (she threw a fit when Jim tried to carry her in!). She likes to eat it and hand it to us but didn't like when Jim tried to make a small snowman. The flakes were so big...you can see the shadows from them in the photos.

Autumn's funnies...

Today we were watching Jacques Pepin and she says "There's Pop" - Pop does like to cook?? Then we were watching My Friends Tigger and Pooh and discovered she can't say "skunk"...it comes out "snack"...quite different than a snack!!!

Stop!

I was singing the theme song to one of the shows we watch on PBS and Autumn yelled "Mama, stop!"...she's finally noticing that I can't sing - the unconditional admiration is ending!

Just Hanging Out...