The Hess Family: December 2007

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Christmas traditions

One of our favorite Christmas traditions is reading all of our children's Christmas books. Cade and Cassidy loved reading their Snowmen at Night and Snowmen at Christmas books tonight (by Caralyn Buehner). Hillary's favorite Christmas book this year is I Believe In Santa Claus, byDiane G. Adamson.

Clean for Christmas

Yoda got a much needed bath! He's very proud of his new clean look! He's doing some fun tricks with Warren. We all enjoy him looking fluffy again and less mangey!

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Cade Sniffing out a dirty diaper

When we suspect Luke is stinky- we have Cade investigate- although today Luke wasn't being very cooperative for him! Cade was chasing him around the house trying to get a good peek!

Scared of Santa

Cade was the only one of our kids brave enough to speak to Santa this year. Cassidy looked like a deer in headlights when asked what she wanted for Christmas. She was completely speechless! Luke wouldn't even LOOK at Santa! Cade made sure Santa knew he wanted a Spiderman toy and grabbed a candy cane and was on his way!

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Lady Liberty

Cassidy's been learning about the Statue of Liberty. They did a class play about it. She LOVES to recite it at home! Here's Cassidy "Enlightening the World!" Do you see a resemblance?

Scrunchie Smiles

Cade's got Luke doing the scrunchie face smile for pictures now! Now we have two goofy guys in our photos!

Fun with Gabby

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Luke's discovered the television

Luke loves to be just like his older brother, Cade. He'll even sit and watch TV to be like him now. He doesn't sit very long- but he enjoys hanging out to watch Tigger and Pooh. His favorite thing about the television is turning it on and off over and over to drive Mom crazy. He especially likes the holiday music channel, and starts dancing as soon as he flips the television on.