Holidays 2011

So who would have known that having a second child would be so much work?  It's not all just giggles and tax breaks.

I promised some Christmas pics and never say I don't follow through, maybe not within an acceptable time frame...

To recap, Spence came home with us mid-November.

 Besides the lack of sleep and the fact that he cried a lot, we started prepping for Christmas.  Annie helped decorate the tree for the first time.  All non-breakable ornaments were on the bottom half, so it made for an interesting looking tree.  Eventually I added candy canes and after she was taught how to break them open, they were quickly put away.

During the tree decorating episode, Spencer decided to sit that one out.  Maybe next year.

We didn't push it, but we try to continually have the two kiddos be near each other.  We hope this will generate some closeness as they grow up.  Crystal isn't convinced but I think this may help if they ever want to be some crime fighting duo.  However I will need to approve Annie's costume, since these aren't father-approved.

Some regression may have occurred initially, but we are (mostly) past that now.  Now we are right in the midst of the 'interesting' twos.

Every year Christmas cookies are made.  Annie wanted to help, so we allowed her to put sprinkles on some cookies.  And by cookies I mean two, since she applied one sprinkle at a time.

Christmas day was fun, this is probably the last year we'll need to wake her up to start opening presents.  And yes, Santa came and was AWESOME!

The cliche shot, but true nonetheless.