Monday, December 29, 2008

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope your holiday was nice and relaxing. We had a good day. I know that I should have a lot to write about since it's been a while since my last post, but I think I'm having writer's block today so I'll let the pictures do the talking.
This is Will's Christmas program at his school. I hope this photo captures the chaos that is a toddler Christmas program. If Will looks like he just got punched in the face, it's because he had pink-eye that day. Yes, I'm the parent who brings their kid with pink-eye to the Christmas program anyway. In my defense, he had been on the antibiotic for long enough that he was no longer contagious. The kids sang Jingle Bells, We Wish You a Merry Christmas and a couple non-holiday songs. For his part, Will cheerfully jangled his bell and sang a word or two.
Here's a picture of our Christmas tree on Christmas Eve before the madness started. As you can see, this room still does not have any furniture. We have sofas ordered and hope that they'll arrive in the next few weeks. In the meantime, it serves as a great exercise room for Will and the dogs.
Christmas morning around 11:00 a.m. We started opening presents pretty early (as is tradition in the Hansen family) so we were finished up and ready for naps before lunchtime. Will crawled under there by himself and probably would have fallen asleep if I hadn't interrupted.

Here's a rare non-Will photograph. My mom made Bailey (my sister's pug) a sweater for Christmas. Not only is it a sweater, but it's a killer whale sweater, notice the fin? She's very creative.

The rest of the weekend was fairly uneventful. Glenn did some man stuff and Will and I hit the after-Christmas sales with Vicky. We had a lot of fun buying some clothes for the new baby girl. We immersed ourselves in pink jammies, pants with ruffles on the fanny area and little tiny shirts in pink and brown and all sorts of girly colors. Glenn and I pulled out the baby name book again last night in the hopes of settling on a name for this new arrival. We ruled out several hundred names but still haven't decided on anything.
Hope you are enjoying this quiet week.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Every girl is crazy about a sharp-dressed man

Will still loves my shoes and boots in this case. Hats are another favorite. He looks like such a big boy in this picture - I can hardly stand it. Stay tuned later in the week for his picture with Santa (!!) and his Christmas program, which is tonight. Yes, even 20-month olds get their own Christmas programs.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Healthy family!

Okay, I've probably just jinxed us with that title but as of today, we are all healthy. Will recovered from pneumonia and is doing great! We put up our Christmas tree this weekend and he is really interested in it. He loves to move the ornaments around or list everything that's on the tree (woof woof, meow, ball, football!, ball, ball, ball, ball - you get the picture). His vocabulary is really starting to grow and every once in a while he throws out a new word and it takes us a few minutes to figure out what he's saying. He told me "gragow!" for about 15 minutes before I finally realized that he was asking for a cracker. I'm a little slow on the uptake. I don't have any pictures of the tree yet, but here's my #1 helper assisting with the tree stand. He's also mastered the word "NO" and uses it freely for a variety of situations. Toddlers = fun.

Finally, I took a picture of the new house. We are all moved in and starting to make the place our own. Still waiting on furniture for the living room. Right now it's a big empty space that's great for toddlers to throw balls, ride bikes and race back and forth. I'm also hesistant to get any furniture for it but he'll survive. We had a nice snow last week so everything looks all clean.

In Feb. baby news, we had another ultrasound last week and saw that we are definitely having a girl - no doubt about it this time. It's exciting and I've had to really restrain myself from buying lots and lots of cute little onesies and holiday dresses (for next year). If I'm not careful, I will singlehandedly be responsible for turning our economy around, at least on the retail level.

Back next time with more holiday pictures and hopefully a shot of Santa and Will. Wish us luck!