My Hoi Polloi

lyla says to me (yells to me is more accurate): "i won tanny mom. peez. PEEZ. PEEZ!"

can i just say, even though she is yelling at me to get her candy, it is really hard to say no to her when she says please like that. so i give in and give her candy. her response:

" oh danks, mom."

followed by this smile. no wonder i never win.

my sister and i braved the crowds at the mall the other day to do a little shopping and to let the kids ride the train and sit on santa's lap. it turned out to be a pretty bearable outing though so we were happy.

when we first got off the escalator to see santa, lyla saw him, ran over to this fence, climbed on and yelled, "hiiiieeee, satta. hiiiiiieeeee." she was pretty excited!

for only getting one chance to take a picture of all 3 kids, i think it turned out pretty good.

kaleb's preschool teacher does a christmas program every year at a retirement home near the preschool. it was so fun to watch all these little kids sing the songs that they have been learning for the past couple months.

they each got to choose a santa hat or reindeer ears to wear for the program.

we love watching kaleb do all these new fun things. he is getting way too old.

grant's latest trick is sitting up. finally he can do it by himself and stay there for a few minutes...and then of course he falls over and yells at me until i sit him back up again or hold him. i love watching babies sit up: i sit and stare at grant just wondering where he got his perfect posture. i like to this he got it from me (***as i sit here typing with a slouched, aching back***)!

i got my hair colored. it turned out much darker than we (my stylist and i) expected it to but i think i might love it. this is close to my real hair color (which gets darker each time i have a baby) so hopefully it will be less maintenance on the color. what do you think?

i also learned that my hair is finally long enough that i can do it curly without looking like shirley temple. yay!

p.s. i hate taking pictures of myself. ughh!

today we woke up to snow...do you think someone is a little excited about it?? (i know i am!!)

they just stood there and watched for a good 15 minutes.

kaleb and corey were putting up lights on the house this last week. i peeked my head out the front door to see how it was going. i couldn't see kaleb so i asked corey where he was...corey just gave me a funny look....

i said, "if my son is on the roof you are dead!"

again, the same funny look from corey.

i go out and see this:

he was just sitting up there handing light bulbs and connectors to his dad. even though it was not so safe, it was the most fun kaleb had all week. too funny!

this little dude is already six months old. he is at such a fun stage. so happy (when he is being held) and so much fun and he is starting to be so mobile...it makes me a little nervous. he had his 6 months check up this week and, just like kaleb, he is getting taller and skinnier. he is up to 17.5 pounds and that seems so heavy to me! we all love having him around!!

notice the drool and the red face. it is almost like he has wind burn from all the drool that comes out of this kid. but he is so cute!

can't wait to see how much he changes in another 6 months!!