TV

Well, I finally did it. Now that Lydia is two she can watch tv (though she has a different times-at friend's houses, with her dad watching nature shows, the Olympics, etc). But this is the first time I have sat her down at our home to watch a show for her. She likes it and now seeing me do this wants to watch it now.......but it was nice to get the dinner done with no distractions.

Lydia's Two!

Lydia turned two on Thanksgiving! Because we were traveling we had several different parties (lots of cake!) One at our sweet neighbors, one when Grandpa and Nana came to visit and one on Thanksgiving at Caleb's families' after we ate turkey.

Visit to Santa

We went to visit Santa in the mall with my Mom. Last year Lydia screamed. This year even though we talked about it and now she tells us all about Santa, when it was actually time to sit on his lap she would have none of it. But she stood beside him (my arm is in her back to keep her from backing up). Gloria, who just woke up for the picture, did great! Santa was kinda grumpy, it was hot in the mall and the register was broken so we didn't get a professional picture and then they closed down after us. Probably a lot of disappointed people, but we had a great day.

Smile

Gloria is a regular smiler now but this is the first one we caught on camera!

Too cute!

Sisters! matching world shirts and blue jeans.

Friend trip

Caleb had a conference in Ft Worth so we stay with Carrie and family and Alisa came to visit too. Big kids-Luke, Lydia and Michael and babies-Claire and Gloria. Luke & Lydia enjoyed pushing each other and taking the other's toys :) Michael didn't want to pose in the bathtub. Only two of the five kids got injuries-neither were mine and only one was inflicted by Lydia.

Halloween

We had a good time handing out candy at our home and Lydia trick or treated at two neighbors. She was an Omani princess (a traditional outfit that a friend's mom gave my mom when they came to visit us). Gloria had a pumpkin onesie and black cat accessories. There is also cousin Jonathan who was a skunk (I don't think he was too impressed) that we saw at my parents house, it was a great photo shoot.