Mizzou football game

MU vs. KSU game 11/13/10- it was so cold! Thanks to Mike and Christie for the blanket donation!

Tristan pics

If not swaddled, Tristan sometimes sticks his hands straight out while sleeping, like a little mini-Frankenstein.

Grandpa Don and Joyce visit

Grandpa Don and Joyce were able to come back and visit for a few days around the time of Tristan's baptism. We had a fun time and I think they really enjoyed seeing the boys!

Tristan's Baptism

November 6th, 2010- Everyone was being entertained by Jordon during the ceremony and wondering if he or Grover would end up falling into the baptismal fountain.

End of the Year!

What a slacker I've become with no posts! We'll see how many updates we can get in by the end of the night. A few recent highlights...

Jordon's been saying lately with brushing his teeth "I wanna do it the hard way". That's my threat to him when in the past he tried to refuse brushing and I would sit him on my lap and pretty much force him down to do it. Well, apparently now that's the way he likes to brush his teeth. Go figure.

I was so proud of him the other day when Don brought him home from daycare and repeated what the teachers said about him. There is a kid in his class who is not exactly easy to deal with- he takes toys from others, and has actually bitten Jordon before hard enough to leave marks on his hand. Apparently the kid has had it hard at home and so that's why he's got some behavioral issues. Anyway, Don likes to check in and make sure Jordon's not getting whipped up on by the kid, so he occasionally will ask how things are going with him. The teachers said the other day that Jordon is a great kid, and shows this other little boy more compassion than any of the other kids in the class. Yeah, that's what I like to hear. He gets that from his Mamo. If he hits back, that comes from Dada.

Yesterday was an awesome day with being in the 60s on December 30th!! We took the boys for a walk around the neighborhood that night. Really strange to be out for a walk looking at Christmas lights in warm weather, but we enjoyed it!

Welcome Karli!

Cousin Karli was born 10/26, a week late, and weighed 7 lbs, 14 oz, 20 and 1/4 inches long. She's not too fond of her ladybug Halloween costume. Here is a picture of "Aunt Sarzah", the baby whisperer with Karli and Tristan. It's fun to compare the babies with being only 27 days apart!

Halloween

Jordon was a member of the Lightning McQueen pit crew for Halloween. We spent part of the day at Tim and Lauren's visiting new cousin Karli, then home for trick or treating. He busted out the zipper of his costume just as we were leaving to go trick or treating. We visited the "Halloween house"-- a house in our neighborhood that has the entire yard and house decorated with tombstones, zombies, and other scary stuff. Jordon was scared of the place at times and didn't want to get too close, but always wanted to drive by and see "Halloween house" for as long as the decorations were up. It's funny what kids hold on to from what they are told by parents-- when we would walk by the house on walks in the neighborhood, we would tell Jordon there was nothing to be scared about, so that Halloween night, he walked down the street from one house to the next yelling "There's nothing to be scared about" when he would see halloween decorations. It's funny too how one day he's all of a sudden scared of something that hasn't scared him before. Example- I had a pumpkin in our living room that plugs in and lights up. It was in the same spot for at least a week. One day Jordon decided he was scared of it and wanted it moved. I moved it for a while and then later put it back in the original spot. Jordon later said that "Lightning McQueen is not scared of the pumpkin" so apparently Jordon wasn't either.