Thursday, January 19, 2017

Life Lately

Once Christmas season is over we are ready to move on directly to Spring. Elle has already asked if we can decorate for Easter. :)

Here is how we are spending our time this winter. 

Elle got Go Fish for Christmas and had so much fun staying up late one night playing round after round with Eric and I. 


Then showing me all the cool kicks and moves she can do. :) 



A couple days after Christmas when our house finally got healthy we took the kids to see Moana. This picture is terrible but I had to document Ollie's first time at the theatre. He LOVED it!

We have been listening to the Moana soundtrack in the car nonstop. 


The Russell's :)
  


Jumping in muddy puddles before heading into Target. 


Once inside Target I bought 3 new Christmas trees...for a combined total of $12!
Mary bought 4!

Our house is going to be oh so festive next Christmas!
Eric thinks I've lost my mind.


One of Ollie's favorite Christmas gifts, he LOVES his new Toy Story "guys".

He is starting to say new words everyday...he can now say "Buzz" and "Woody"


Since we missed the Hylton Christmas we celebrated with Grandma Chris one day. 


This boy loves to brush his teeth.  Any time we are in the bathroom he goes to his toothbrush drawer and gets it out and starts brushing. 



Some Saturday morning coloring. 
Elle is drinking her milk out of my "I Love Lucy"coffee mug. Like mother like daughter!


One night we ordered pizza and rented Finding Dory.  I was all about watching the movie...


and the kids were all about climbing on Eric, asking for horsey rides and to be swung in the air.


I ADORE the age Ollie is at right now. He is talking more, gives tons of hugs and kisses, pretends to sneeze ("ahh ahh choooo") and instead of calling donuts don dons he calls them non nons.

He will grab my hand, lead my to the pantry and say, "non non"


We had Elle's parent/teacher conference and girlfriend is doing so great in school!! We are working on her letter and number recognition so hopefully by the end of the school year we will have have a good handful that she recognizes. 


Ollie makes this face sometimes and it always reminds me of the movie Clifford.



Taking her doll Ashlynn for a walk around the neighborhood.  Elle loved doing this so much!


This was our first go at Lego building and even though the 2 direction pamphlets made it seem daunting we had a lot of fun!


Hot cocoa for night 2 of Lego building!


These two love playing in the dining room.  They knock all the chairs down and play under the table.  They call it their cave. 


Popcorn party!


So Ollie is obsessed with the book "Little Penguin Has the Hiccups"one night at dinner I got the hiccups and he kept saying "1...2...3...ROAR" to try to cure me of my hiccups...which is exactly what they do in the book.


Jumping on my bed and wrestling each other before bed is one of their favorite things.  And I'm always the crazy lady telling them to stop because I'm scared one of them will fall off the bed and break their arm. 

But how cute is this picture I snapped in the middle of the craziness.  These two love each other SOOO much!



Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Merry Mulligan Christmas!

Due to the Hylton family and Will being out with the stomach bug over Christmas we postponed our normal Christmas night celebration to New Years Eve. We all went to Mom and Dad's house to celebrate, open presents and have dinner.

Eric worked the night before so I left a smidge earlier than him so he could get some more sleep and the kids and I ran to the grocery store before heading to my parents house. We were all at my parents house waiting for Eric to arrive and we kept the kids occupied from the mound of presents by trying to get a picture of the 4 of them. 

Look at Ollie hugging Henry! He loves him some Hensy!



Best we could get.  And even T-Babe, the oldest of all the babies managed to sneak into the picture. :) 


This boy kept going over to the stockings and stealing candy canes. I have no idea how much candy he consumed this night but it was a lot. 



This year we tried to somewhat take turns with the kids opening presents so we could all actually see what they were opening. 



By chance this was the first present Ollie opened and it consumed all of his attention for the rest of present opening.



Will is a magnet for these babes.  They all love playing with him!


Ollie wanted to help MawMaw open this present.


After presents it is stocking time!


Henry was nice enough to let Elle try on one of his superhero outfits. 


These two, the best of friends but can fight and bicker like crazy!


Little missy passed out after presents (hallelujah, a nap was much needed) and she actually slept through us eating dinner.  I didn't dare wake her, she needed her rest. :) 


So Ollie enjoyed having his highchair pushed up to the table at Sissy's dinner spot. 


After dinner we opened their tub of clothes for each kid, they played and tried on new clothes, opened toys, colored and we were home and in bed before 10pm. 


As we were laying in bed I got a text from Mary with pictures of the boys baby dolls I got them. They both had tucked them in for bed. :)