Blogging, plus 4...

Having a newborn in the house has been eye-opening! Taking care of a newborn isn't hard (in the traditional sense of the word), but it is time consuming. Mike just took Caleb from me right now so that I could have both hands to type and finally get a blog post up!

The kids are all adjusting so well to having Caleb in the house. Even Lilia shows absolutely no jealousy issues and is only excited about "my brudder!" and worries when she doesn't know where he is.

Caleb is almost 3 weeks old and is having longer awake periods everyday and is opening his eyes bigger and bigger each day. I just know this 1st year is going to go by so quickly!!
Sofie's favorite past time is to hold her new baby brother.
Just because I haven't been posting doesn't mean that there isn't anything to post about! We have had some great things to do this Christmas season and have been enjoying this holiday.

This weekend my family battled the snow and the blistering cold and drove up hear for our family Christmas. Thank you so much, all of you. It meant so much to see all my family sitting in MY living room and enjoying each other's company.

We opened presents and ate lots of food. It snowed a lot here on Saturday and you could hear at least one person singing at all times, "Oh the weather outside is frightful, but inside it's so delightful..."

We had a house full of babies this year! My nephew Eli was here. It was so special to finally hold the little (I mean BIG) guy and see how beautiful he is. This is my brother, Joe, babysitting two of his nephews. He was quite good at it!

Lilia was enthralled with her presents! She is at the age where everything she does is cute. Opening presents, modeling her new hat, and yes, even....

having a meltdown when it was her nap time. :)

Sofie got a horse for her American Girl doll that she is going to get for Christmas. This is the least surprised anyone has ever been for Christmas. She's known that she was going to get this doll since this summer. I guess what her doll lacts in surprise, it makes up for in patience.

John scored with two things he can never have too much of. Thomas the Train sets and Lego's.

The only toy I've seen boys and grown men consistently bond over is Lego's. You never outgrow them.
Eli, in true 5 1/2 mo. form, wanted to eat the wrapping paper. He caught sight of that camouflage wrapping paper and thought it looked like the yummiest thing he'd ever seen. He didn't react to any other wrapping paper like that, just the camo paper.