Crazy Christmas Season...

This Christmas season was crazy as always but this year felt a little more nuts with the late Thanksgiving. Every year the Christmas season starts with our visit to Tonkadale Nursery the weekend after Thanksgiving to visit Santa. Santa is so good with the kids! He takes time with everyone, goofs around a little with the kids and invites the whole family for the pictures. We learned a few years back that if Trevor and I just start in the picture with the kids we avoid a lot of tears.

 

Then we went to the very last Hollidazzle parade with the Moseleys. It was not near as cold as two years ago. The kids did great and loved all the music and lights.

 

This year Ben got to be a Wise Man in his little Christmas show at church. He was so excited to carry his gift of Myrrh.

 

Olivia and Jameson also had a little Holiday Concert.

 

Then it was finally time for Christmas. We started our celebration early with the Alms the Sunday before Christmas. We had a nice dinner followed by gifts and dessert.

 

 Jameson has Grandpa's new gloves on and is wearing Daddy's new hunting boots on his feet.

 Then it was down to Fairmont to spend Christmas Eve with the Eisenmingers. Olivia got to put the Baby Jesus in the manger this year.

 

Even though the Christmas Season gets a little crazy it is always filled with lots of Friends, Family, Love and Laughter. Here's to a great 2013!

Jameson turns 2

Our Little Guy is 2! It is crazy how much he has grown up in the last couple months. He is talking all the time (even when no one is listening). He gives lots of hugs and kisses now, asks us to "snuggle for 2 minutes" at bed time, pushes and shoves his siblings when they don't leave him alone and has a new obsession with gloves (anyone's gloves)!

 

 He received lot of gloves for his birthday and he rotates which pair he likes to wear each day.

Happy Birthday Buddy!

She is 4!!

Our little girl has turned 4!! I cannot believe how fast she has grown up. She is sweet, cuddly, funny, curious, stubborn and sassy as ever and we just cannot get enough of her! Jeff took some picture of the family this fall and Olivia definitely stole the show. Here is a little glimpse of her personality at 4.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This year Olivia had her first party with a few close friends. The party included the Moseleys, Modrows, Murrays and Juliens. The kids had a great time decorating their aprons and chef hats, making pizzas and having cake and ice cream. We were not sure how Olivia would do because she does not like a lot of attention on her in large groups of people but she did great. The party was a success!

 Happy Birthday Sweetie!

New Beds

It has been a big week for the boys in the Knight household.  Trevor built bunk beds for Ben's room. They turned out just perfect and Ben has now moved into his new bed. There are a few details to finish like the rail for the top bunk and a ladder to get to that top bunk but Ben is loving his new bed.

 

 Bunk beds in Ben's room meant it was time to move our little guy to a big boy bed. We moved our other two at about this age and it seemed to work well so we figured why delay? So down came the crib and yes I cried! The crib has been up in that room for over 6 years and it was bitter sweet to see it come down. Jameson is doing okay, he sometimes has a hard time falling asleep in the new bed. Once he is asleep has been sleeping all night and staying in the bed in the morning until we come to get him.

Halloween

Thursday Morning I took Olivia and Jameson to school for their Halloween festivities. Julie was also there to help with Stephanie's classroom and Jameson stuck to her like glue. 

 Princess Olivia

 Like every year for the past 8 years the Brandhorst family came over for pizza, beer and trick or treating. Jess and I stayed home to hand out candy and Trevor and Al took Princess Olivia, Spiderman, firefighter Jameson and Pirate John out to collect candy.

Thanks Brandhorsts for another great Halloween

New shoes

So Jameson's feet are growing at a different rate than Ben's did. Jameson's feet are right between the sizes of shoes that we already have so I had to get him some new ones. He was so excited that he would not take them off. One night I went in his room to check on him and I came out asking Trevor why Jameson was not wearing his PJ pants. Trevor responded with a simple "did you look under the blanket?" So when I returned to the room and removed his blanket this is what I found. No further explanation needed!

A New School Year

We are a month into the school year and Ben is doing great. His teacher is Ms.Erstad and she seems like a great teacher with more patience than I could ever dream to have. Ben has some new friends that he talks about often (Max, from his t-ball team, Phillip, Austin, Benjamin L and Brynlynn).

 

 The hardest part for Ben thus far has been walking to school on his own. The first few days I walked him all the way to his classroom. After that we started backing off little by little. First it was just to the front door, then the corner by the school and then just to the crossing guard at the end of our street. Now Ben and Olivia run down the street, Olivia waits for me and Ben is off to school before I can even get all the way down the street with Jameson. I have learned quickly to get my hug and kiss in the driveway before we leave.

Sometimes when I ask was he learned I get the typical "nothing" but then he surprises me with little comments like in the car when he says "mom, when I and A are by themselves they are words" One month into school and he is already starting to read...words he knows are I, am, Little and The. Crazy what these Kindergarteners do these days.