santa baby

what I thought would be a semi-traumatic experience for our son actually went smoothly! you see, I was t-e-r-r-i-f-i-e-d of santa claus as a child. there is many a picture of me screaming at the top of my lungs and reaching desperately for my mom. miles, on the other hand, must take after his daddy on this one. see for yourself...

after visiting with santa, we made some cookies. this was helen's FIRST time baking cookies! geesh...where did we fail this girl?!? she enjoyed it and miles thought it was pretty fun too. I'm sure he'll be more of a fan next year when he can EAT cookies!!

our three babies

awwww!

and now a little sneak peek behind-the-scenes...

trimming the tree

fa-la-la-la-la...la-la-la-la! sorry...got carried away with the christmas caroling. I have been listening to nothing but christmas music for the last week and a half and will do so until well after new years. which, I might add, is kyle's LEAST favorite thing about the holiday season. anyway - the tree is up (finally) and mr. miles was able to put his first decorations on it. last christmas, my mom & dad gave us a sweet fluffy blue stocking for the baby (blue...who knew!?) and beth & seth gave "baby K" a cute snowman ornament. this year he's added to his collection and is already up to FIVE ornaments! I have oodles of them as it was tradition to receive a new ornament every year from both sets of grandparents. I feel fortunate to have wonderful memories of seeing my own decorations on the tree year after year. kyle and I are looking forward to making this a tradition for our family now too! miles is still in the "potted plant" stage (a.k.a. not yet on the move) - so the tree is safe from baby curiousity. he likes to look at the lights and feel the "needles" (I admit...we are fake tree folks). I should also point out that miles LOVES the christmas music too! [that's 2-1 if you're keeping score!!]

due to our lack of space, we bought a SLIM 7 ft tree and I spent 2 hrs making it "pre-lit"

early morning...so innocent

check out the ornament stash for the 6 month old!

helping mommy

inspecting with daddy

carrots

YUMMY! miles is experimenting with foods these days and decided carrots are delish. I am attempting to make most of the baby food, so I peeled, steamed, and pureed a big bag of carrots. I froze them in ice cube trays and voila! we have a zip-loc freezer bag full of carrot cubes. I'm sure I'll be fighting back the dinner guests :) the frozen carrot cubes also come in handy when using the mesh feeder. it's a little mesh bag on a handle that we can put whole food into and he can munch away. that was a BIG hit! on another note...rice cereal has not been going over so well, so we switched to oatmeal and miles is pretty pumped about that.

excuse me...what is THIS?
never mind...that was YUMMY...thank you!
how does this thing work?

a HA!