Melts your Heart!

This is the moment every parent waits for, that FIRST SMILE! That smile turns your little baby into a person. It is the first glimpse into the personality that will develop as he grows and it melts your heart and brings tears to the eyes.

Hague House Dinner

Every year around the holidays the girls (and spouses) from the house on Hague get together for a little holiday dinner. All of us lived at some point at the Hague house during our St.Thomas years. The Linder-Stenzel family has hosted our dinner the last few years at their house in St.Paul. This year was extra special since every one of us had had a baby in the last year or was currently pregnant!

(Jess, Maddy, Sarah, Sarah, Rachel & Jess)

Christmas and so much more...

Off to church we went on Christmas Eve. This was our first adventure out of the house with the whole family. So here they are all 3 kids piled into the back of the car. This would never work in Trevor's car so we will soon be a mini van family.

After church we took a few pictures, opened a few presents and watched a Christmas movie. The whole day was relaxing and even though we missed being around the rest of the family it was nice to have a quite day at home.

Olivia got this outfit from the Juliens for Christmas and the kids love playing in the kitchen.

The Murrays invited us over to share in their spaghetti dinner for New Year's Eve. We decided it is nice to have friends to get together with that don't feel the need to stay up to watch the ball drop. We had a great night filled with good food and good friends!

Welcoming Jameson Robert Knight

Jameson Robert Knight

12/14/2011 at 6:47pm

8lbs. 7oz and 22 inches long

When I headed to the doctor on Wednesday for my weekly Ultrasound and appointment with the doctor I was not expecting directions to head right to the hospital for an induction due to the drop in fluid levels since the previous week. So poor Trevor gets a phone call at work from me telling him to meet me at Southdale. They started the induction at 12:00 and slowly increased the meds, I got my epidural around 3:30, started pushing at 6:30 and we had our little boy out by 6:47.

Trevor got to announce the gender and his response was ...

"Holy Crap it's a Boy"

My parents brought the kids about an hour later to meet their new baby brother. Ben could not contain himself he was so excited!

Grandma and Grandpa "across the street" came, Emily and Katherine were there and Grandma and Grandpy Knight joined that night as well.
The kids came to visit again the next night and although Olivia was not sure what to think the first night she was so excited to hold her new baby brother on night 2.

Jameson looked pretty rough the first few days. He had swollen eyes from the drops they put in and a baby rash that the doc said was "impressive" that covered his whole body.

This is what the first few days at home were like... lots of lying around watching movies and relaxing.

Proud Daddy!

No surprise to us Ben has been loving every moment with Jameson. He can't wait for Mommy to bring Jameson to school so he can show all his friends.

Welcome to the Family Jameson!

She is 2 Years Old!

Olivia's Birthday started out with a Bang! Olivia came down with Croup on Friday night. After Trevor and I spent 2 hours lying in bed listening to her breath we decided to head to Southdale's ER. We got there at 3:45 in the morning. The poor girl had x-rays, meds and a shot but after that she was doing much better. We got home around 6:30 and she slept until almost 11:00. After some sleep and the drugs from the hospital she was ready to party.

There were so many generous gifts from family and friends. Her big brother was of course a huge help in opening them all.

She got these sunglasses from Grandma and Grandpy and she thought she was pretty hot stuff.
Happy Birthday Sweet Girl! Can't wait to see what the next year has in store for you.

Naughty or Nice?

Thanksgiving weekend we went to see Santa at Tonkadale Nursery. He is the BEST Santa. You don't have to wait in line and you actually get more than 30 seconds to talk to Santa. Olivia was a little afraid so poor Santa ended up with the WHOLE Knight family on his lap.

When the line slowed down Ben and Cullen had a little extra time with Santa.

Wonder what worldly advice Santa is sharing with these young minds?

Santa also wanted a picture with the newest member of the Knight family.

"Mo Candy"

"Mo Candy" has become Olivia's favorite new saying. Poor girl got her mom's sweet tooth. Halloween weekend has not helped this problem.

Saturday Ben and Trevor went to the cabin to help with fall clean up and Olivia and I had the day to ourselves. She had her first experience with the large leaf piles I was raking and she LOVED it. She just kept running through the piles squealing with delight. Even the neighbors stop to see what all the fuss was about.

She also wanted to spend some time with her pumpkins and then when we moved to the back yard she kept saying "bye bye pumpkin, bye bye pumpkin"

We thought we were going to need one of those chair swings for her but she would have nothing to do with that. She loves the big swing and just sit there saying "Mo Underdog, Mo Underdog"

Sunday night we carved pumpkins and just like every other year Al and Jess provided us with one BIG pumpkin! Ben could not reach the bottom to get the guts out and Trevor could barely lift it even once it was carved.

Thanks Al for another great Pumpkin!

Halloween finally arrived and the kids had a great time painting the little pumpkin.

Trick or Treat time!

This year Ben told us he wanted to be SpiderMan. This was the first year he really had an opinion about his costume. Olivia did not care so much and she was the cutest monkey I have ever seen!

We ran into Adam, Molly, Will and Addie on the street as they were heading to our house. Will was ready to fight some fires!

We went to more houses this year than ever before. Ben was really getting into the Trick or Treating and I am afraid next year he will not let us skip a single house!