It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas!

Wow, is it really Christmas Eve already?  The last 6 months have felt like a whirlwind...between welcoming Colin into our lives, selling our house, moving in with my parents, and both Danny and I being beyond busy at work, the second part of 2013 is a big blur.  However, aside from the craziness with work, I don't think either of us would change anything about this year.  We are extremely excited to see what 2014 has in store for us.  

Since the last blog post, we've made a few trips to Hamilton to visit Danny's family.  We celebrated Thanksgiving with Mike's girlfriend, Marisa's family.  We've found ways to keep Cadence entertained since the weather in Ohio has been rather brutal.  We took Cadence to see her first movie in the movie theater, Frozen...she loved it!  Danny and I have been contacting painters and contractors so that we can start gathering quotes on renovating our new house.  The previous owners will be out this Friday!  Danny and my dad are planning on going up to the house this weekend to start ripping out carpet and taking down walls!  We've also been busy preparing for Christmas!

After people kept suggesting it, I finally let Danny cut Colin's hair.  I had just assumed it would all fall out like Cadence's did.  He had this Donald Trump thing going on, so we gave him a little trim.  He was still too little to go to a salon to get it done, so we did it ourselves at home!

The Before

The After...much better

6 Months Old

The artist at work

 Cadence had a lot of fun at the movies!  She loves the movie, Frozen.  She wouldn't stand next to the movie display of Olof the snowman for a picture, though.  Oh yeah, and the seats kept folding in on her because she is light as a feather!

He's getting so big!  He's getting really good at sitting up by himself!

The last time we got a decent amount of snow, it was too cold to go out and play...so we brought some snow inside!  We used food coloring to make it a little more fun...and messy.  Cadence was pretending to make ice cream. 

Crafting with Mamaw, Aunt Annie, and the cousins after Thanksgiving!

Cadence had fun decorating cookies this year (she got pretty bored with the gingerbread house last year)...she went a little overboard with the sprinkles, but it was great watching her have so much fun.  

The letter "C" for Cadence, of course

The 3-4 year old classes at her "school" performed, "Jingle Bells" this year at the Christmas Program.  She did so well!  If you notice in the pictures below, she's the only kid NOT standing on the bleachers.  Apparently, some of the kids were going nuts during rehearsals and freaked Cadence out.  

We celebrated Christmas early with Danny's family since we will be at the new house all weekend after Christmas.  We all got a lot of great gifts and had fun visiting with everyone.  By Sunday evening, the kids were completely worn out!

She was a big fan of her Sophia the First toy from the Napiers!

The girls were having a TON of fun with Gracie's Frozen dress-up clothes and Cadence's tent!

Danny had a couple free nights left, so we stayed the night at a hotel.  Cadence had fun eating a snack in bed!

7 Months Old!

Mom got a really cute pic of the kids together one Friday.

Halloween

Is it really November already?  Crazy!  Since the last blog post, we put an offer on a house!  It's in Sunbury, about 20 minutes from where we are now (if you take back roads), or about 10 minutes further up I-71.  We're excited!  The current owners counter offered and then so did we...and they accepted!  We are still working out the final details and will close at the end of this month.  We will get possession of the house mid-December.  That's all I'll write for the time being...don't want to jinx anything!

 Our 5 Month cutie!  He's getting to be such a big boy!  He still really has no interest in rolling over and HATES being on his belly.  He just started blowing raspberries and it's so easy to make him laugh!  We have his 6 month doctors appointment later this month; I'm curious to see how much he weighs.  He's already wearing 9 month sized clothes because he's so long!

Cadence was more interested in carving pumpkins this year.  In hindsight, we would've had her draw a face on the pumpkin and we would've carved it for her, but she just watched for a little while.  She was totally grossed out by the seeds and wanted no part in helping clean them out!

Even "Brudder" was part of the festivities.

Danny carved an elephant for Cadence...she was a big fan.

Halloween outfits from Mamaw and Papaw!

For about 2 months leading up to Halloween, Cadence wanted to be Fiona from Shrek.  Then she changed her mind and wanted to be Sofia the First.  I felt it was more fitting since she pretty much lives in her tiara and tutus.

Duh, Colin was an elephant for Halloween.  I think he wore the costume for about 5 minutes.  He was so sleepy and hungry when he got home from daycare that he had a bottle and went to bed!  The costume was a little big, but cute nonetheless!

We had another dreary Halloween...at least it wasn't too chilly!  We hit up about 7 houses and Cadence was done.  Since the street wasn't too busy with trick-or-treaters, the houses we went to unloaded all of their candy to Cadence!  She had a lot of fun!

Taking inventory with Daddy

Cafeteria Carousel Horse

I think I've mentioned it before that Cadence is a little OCD when it comes to the carousel horse in the cafeteria at school.  9 times out of 10, we HAVE to stop by and see the horse before we leave school.  I originally blamed my mom for this, not knowing that it was OK for kids to sit on it.  I was told that one of Cadence's favorite past teachers let her do it one day.  Now it's pretty much a necessity.  Enjoy the montage of carousel horse pictures collected by my mom and me!