It's been a bit busy here the past few weeks. It has been a very good, but very full month of December. Today has been one of those rare stay at home all day kinds of days. So what have we been up to this month? Lots of Christmas activities - town events, church events, and family time. Last Saturday (the 8th) we hosted a Christmas gathering at our house for our church family. My parents came down that day for a quick visit, hung out with the kids, helped us prepare for our party, and spent a little time fellowshipping with our church family. Yesterday was our church's children's program during the morning service. In the evening we hosted a family movie night. It was a great day spent with the body of believers here in Wahoo!
The boys have enjoyed watching some Christmas movies - Charlie Brown's Christmas, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Word World Christmas. And, they have enjoyed eating Christmas cookies, coloring Christmas pages, reading Christmas books, and playing with the Little People Nativity set. Silas has been making baby Jesus spend quite a bit of time sleeping on a pirate ship lately! Jonah is now done with preschool until the new year. And, last week was our final BSF until then as well.
This sweet girl is 3 months old as of yesterday. She had her first cold over the past two weeks. I ended up taking her into the doctor last week because I wanted to make sure her lungs sounded ok since she was breathing a little funny at times. Thankfully, she was fine. It seems as if really thick mucus in her upper airway was the cause. Even though she did not eat well at all during her cold, she must be getting plenty to eat. She weighed 14 lbs, 14 oz at her appointment. Lydia wears mostly 3-6 and 6 month clothes as well as some 6-9 months! She is still waking up once at night. I usually put her down around 8:30 pm. Then, she wakes up around 2:30 or 3:00am. She gets up for the day anywhere from 6:00-8:00am. Both boys were consistently sleeping 10-11 hours at night at this age. I would love it if she would get to that point, too. However, I do cherish our middle of the night feedings. She often wakes up squealing and squeaking happily and will smile and talk like crazy at 3:00 am. Maybe she appreciates her one-on-one attention?! Just this week Lydia has been able to sit in the Bumbo seat. It has been a great thing for all of us. She has always liked to sit upright, which until now has meant that she wanted to be held most of the time. Now, she happily sits in the Bumbo for 15-20 minutes at a time. The boys love it as they can bring her lots of toys to play with. And, Lydia LOVES watching her brothers. She smiles away at them and her eyes will follow them in and out of rooms until she can't see them anymore. Lydia is such a sweet blessing to us!
Another exciting part of this month is that Jonah won the preschool age division coloring contest through the Chamber of Commerce. This is his coloring sheet. One of his prizes was a box of 64 crayons. He has liked having so many new colors! Also, the same day he found out about winning the coloring contest, the town newspaper called to say that he received the honorable mention in his age division for their drawing contest in which he had to draw his favorite Christmas scene. The newspaper will print it in the paper this week. Maybe we have a little artist on our hands?!?!
We are looking forward to celebrating Christmas here at home on Saturday before heading to Minnesota on Sunday after church to be with our family. Merry Christmas, everyone!
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