We've had a very busy and very fun Christmas break - as is probably obvious from my lack of posts! Our festivities began the Sunday before Christmas with Malachi participating in the children's choir and bell choir at church. He practiced his songs a lot while in the car and I'm pretty sure I could hear his voice in the crowd!
That same day after church we had the Litter family Christmas party at Grandma Litter's. We were missing quite a few people but still had a great time, complete with the traditional "walk-through," (Aunt Tweed sets up a video camera and tapes each of the families walking through one by one) and program. This year we each had an ornament that had a verse or saying written on it that we read and then put on Grandma's tree. Malachi even read his own this year!
GranMols has her hands full with these two!
Grammy Litter with her "September babies," Audrey and Jonas.
All the great-grandchildren that were present: Adeline, Audrey, Liza, Elliott, Jonas, Malachi, Walker, Grace and Oliver. Isn't it funny how our definition of a "good" picture changes when it involves lots of kids?!
Be sure to keep checking back this week - I'm promising the rest of our Christmas festivities!
In the midst of all the holiday bustle, our littlest guy turned 3 months old! Jonas is such a sweet and easygoing baby. I don't know how much he currently weighs, but he's definitely eating well and growing - he's getting a little chubby! He's sleeping pretty well, usually only waking once for a middle of the night snack, and still naps various times during the day. He smiles easily and often and is starting to giggle more and more each day. Baby giggles are my absolute favorite sound in the whole world and I tear up each time one escapes...and then I try to get him to laugh more and more! He is mesmerized by his big brothers and they are usually the ones most often rewarded with smiles and laughs. Elliott is still pretty rough with him (I've recently caught him trying to shove a stick down Jonas' throat and sitting on top of Jonas, riding him like a horse), and Malachi still does his best to protect him. Even with all this chaos that is our home, Jonas rarely cries and seems content to just take it all in!
Christmas morning this year was so much fun! Malachi was definitely excited anticipating Santa and because of that Elliott was excited too. The boys actually slept in more than normal (until almost 8:00!) and even woke us up before tearing into their stockings and presents.
Thank you Yaya and 'Buelo, Bruce, Sigi, Kevin and Kayla, Grandpa Gene and Grandma Alice, Aunt Jessica, Uncle Mike, Austin and Whitney for all the gifts we received while in Tennessee.
The girls also continued our tradition of exchanging scarves - who doesn't love a new scarf?!
Another morning Granddad treated all of us to some bowling. Malachi and Elliott were very excited about bowling and even had their own lane with bumpers.
We also spent a lot of time just hanging out and playing. The boys were very excited that Aunt Sigi still had lots of Kevin's toys. The Hotwheel tracks were a huge hit - which worked out pretty well since that is what Yaya and 'Buelo and Santa got the boys for Christmas!
