What we do when Daddy's gone

This last week Nathaniel was in Arizona all week long.  I missed him a lot but this time I did a lot better than when he was in Denver.  Adam Kyle and I had a lot of fun.  we went shopping, went out to lunch, visited family and played together a lot.

 Kyle discovered a funny new way to laugh.

 Mom bought some new clothes with her Christmas money

 Adam

 And Kyle both enjoyed walking around the mall with me.

Adam even tried out dressing himself a couple times, although his undershirt is on backwards and he was missing pants, I was pretty impressed.  He also tried to put Kyle's socks on him to help out :) We are happy to have Daddy back

Cookies!

I have been noticing that the more time I spend with Adam, and the less I ignore him (no matter the reason), the happier he is and easier he is to parent.  Nathaniel has noticed this too.  So last Sunday when we were looking for something sweet to eat we decided to involve Adam.  Adam has a play kitchen and a set of cookie cutters and felt cookie dough/ cookies.  What a great idea to make these cookies for real!

Adam helped Dad put all the ingredients in and he even held the mixer!

Here he is pushing his cookie cutters into the dough (great job at finding the recipe Dad! so tasty and no eggs to worry about!)

 And this is his reaction to tasting the frosting after he frosted a cookie.  I love this one.  He really was so happy to be spending time with Mom and Dad.  We will have to do things like this more often!

Crafty

When we went back to Nathaniel's home for Thanksgiving a surprise project was waiting for me.  With my sisters and Mother-in-law I sanded, painted, traced and cut paper, modge podged, accented and accessorized these three little letters.

Then Christmas morning I got these four letters.  I still don't think I am a very creative person but I am happy with how these turned out. I still have one more letter project, but it will have to wait until I am done with my classes.

Thanks mom for the projects! I really enjoyed spending time doing this with you all! I love having these decorating my home.

rollin' rollin' rollin'

Maybe I should have done something to change this but Kyle has never really spent much time on the floor.  It was just too risky.  When Adam was tiny, he practically lived on the floor but now because he is a very active two-year-old Kyle usually sits on the couch, or his swing, or his bumbo, or in the arms of an adult, far away from the stomps and jumps of his monkey brother. That being said, Kyle was able to roll from front to back almost as soon as I started tummy time with him ( supervised for just a couple minutes, he really didn't like tummy time).  I try to get him on the floor every once in a while and he seems to like it but it surprised me today when he rolled over from back to front.  And then rolled over a couple more times!  He was getting pretty tired by the time I took this video so he was whining a bit, but you get the point.  Way to go Kyle!