Christmas

 Christmas 2021

We'll start with our Awkward family photos. I just love that we have this wonderful space to hang our stockings. Someday we may have a mantle, but this works great for now.  

Notice how half of us are in pajamas and half in church clothes, haha! 

Anyway, we did those pictures a couple weeks before Christmas. The week of Christmas was busy with our floors being installed and we needed to rearrange our furniture. Most of our furniture and our fridge were in our living room which was a little crazy but it turned out kind of fun to have our table by the tree for games and puzzles and may become a future tradition.  

Max got home from work Christmas eve morning. and rested for awhile. We then spent the day doing some games and getting our house back in order.

Miles ended up having a fever. We had put the baby to bed and sat with our 3 older boys on the couch and chatted with them, Edwin fell asleep in Max's arms and Miles (our little fever boy) fell asleep in my arms. It was just calm and fun. (Minus the sick part) 

Also, notice the fridge behind Max, once the floors were installed we had put a new fridge in and at some point, late on Christmas Eve night, Max and I moved that fridge to the basement. haha. Christmas Magic. 

We made sure the living room was all ready. 

And the elves even vacuumed. 

We had some excited boys on Christmas morning. and Thankfully Miles was feeling a whole lot better. 

The morning started with an intense laser tag battle. 

Edwin's game face. 

So that was a lot of fun. 

Then we checked out our stockings. And ate some breakfast, which was cream of wheat, I was limited because we still didn't have an oven. I usually like to stick a breakfast casserole in while the boys are checking out their stockings. 

Walter liked shoving candy (still with the wrapper) into his mouth. 

After breakfast we spent time slowly opening gifts we had picked out for each other. 

Can you guess this kids favorite animal? (Each boy got a mug of their favorite animal, along with some special hot cocoa) 

And some more scenes of the day. 

My little brothers sent a large package of nerf guns so we could have family battles. haha! They all tore open that package together. 

Anyway, nap time came for Walter so Max and I decided to nap as well since we were up all night moving furniture and what not...so boys watched Encanto for the first time. (We have yet to put our TV up and so far we haven't really missed it in the year we've lived here.) 

Later that day, Max's uncles were hosting a Christmas dinner, and since Miles had been sick I stayed home with him. Miles loved the one-on-one time. We played games did some laser tag, ate dinner (he finally had a little appetite) and I watched Encanto for the first time (Miles' second) He kept saying how he wasn't glad he was sick but he was so glad we got to have time to play together and it was really just so special. 

The rest of the boys came home and it was a good night!

It was so special to not only spend Christmas in our new home but to spend it in a home where I have celebrated many Christmases, throughout my whole life. 

Walter is 1!

December 1, 2021

Walter turned one! Here are his photos. 

Never had a baby able to walk for their one-year-old photos. 

He tolerates swings for a short period of time. 

I have been so pleasantly surprised with how much Walter's big brother's love him. I was expecting a little more jealousy or frustration but they just think he is the greatest, and Walter is obsessed with his brothers. 

We were enjoying the early sunset of a late fall day. 

Walter totally fell and hit his face shortly after we arrived at the park. 

Always spider man

We stayed until it was nearly dark. and enjoyed every bit of it, except for the time Walter smashed his face.

For his birthday we had some simple celebrations. The big boys had been looking forward to filling his crib with balloons so we definitely did that. 

Edwin had a preschool field trip to Whole Foods so that is part of how the celebration went down. 

In the evening, Walter opened a couple gifts and we got to eat cupcakes and have Uncle Austin over whose birthday is 1 week after Walter's. 

Scored this thing for free from the BUY nothing groups so we will be happy to pass it on when he's done with it. 

And we had cupcakes with blue frosting as that is apparently the tradition with all our boy's first piece of cake. 

HE really enjoyed the cupcake, more than any of our other boys on their first birthday. It's probably because we had more sugar than the others prior to his first birthday. 

A couple days later we had a family party to celebrate Walter and Austin and we were supposed to be celebrating getting our new oven which took another 7 months to arrive. 

Edgar, showing Walter how his new toy works. He was a good teacher. 

The cousins also brought Charlie his birthday gift so Grace and Charlie had a good time with legos. 

Walter got all tuckered out.

And Red Grandma had been excited to come see our house so it was fun to celebrate with her too!

And that was the celebration of our little Walter Noah!