Christmas 2010

Here are some photos of us on Christmas morning!Here are the girls in their matching PJ's! Of course, they did not want to sit still for the photo!
Here are the girls with Grandma and Grandpa Sandoval!
Lydia didn't really notice the Christmas tree at our house, but she just loved the ornaments on my parents Christmas tree! Good thing my mom bought some plastic ornaments for the lower half of the tree! :)
I was always very careful not to let Lydia get into Makayla's goldfish crackers (from a choking standpoint)! However, one day Lydia got into them when I wasn't looking and gobbled them down without a problem! So now she gets her own snack cup with goldfish! She knows exactly what's going on when she sees the snack cups come out and she better get her own or we're going to hear about it!!
These shopping carts were one of my favorite gifts that I got the girls! I think I enjoyed them more than they did!
Makayla just loves this puzzle that Aunt Julie and Uncle Tim got her! She can do a good portion of the puzzle without any help...as you can see below!
Here's a photo of Makayla and Lydia with Nana and Papa and all of their Evers cousins!This was Makayla and Lydia's favorite thing to play with after we spent an entire day celebrating Christmas and opening gifts! (This prompted me to put away some of the gifts I had bought and save them for a rainy day!)

Making Cookies

We did some baking while visiting my parents in Michigan! Makayla had fun helping us make cut-out cookies! Her favorite part was the sprinkles!

Look Alikes?

Here's a photo of Makayla now (28 months) and me when I was 36 months! We showed this photo to Makayla and she insisted that it was her in the photo!

2010 is coming to a close!

Wow! I can't believe the year is almost over! We've had a whirlwind past few months and I've been horrible at keeping this blog up to date! So here's a quick recap of what we've been up to lately! Makayla has been learning tons of new words and phrases and has no problem telling us what she thinks or what she wants! About a month ago, she decided she wanted to start sitting on the potty, so we had a pretty easy time potty training her! She still has a few accidents, but is about 98% potty trained! Lydia is a little ball of energy! She started taking some steps in late November and is now toddling around the house! She follows Makayla around and wants to do everything that Makayla does! She has 6 of her 8 front teeth and 2 more that have almost cut through. She had a rough time with ear infections and we went through 4 or 5 rounds of antibiotics between September and mid November. She got tubes in her ears in late November and it's helped tremendously!
We had two fun visits from Grandma and Grandpa Sandoval...one in October and one in November! We also took a trip to the Wisconsin Dells with the Evers' family. Unfortunately, Makayla got the flu and we had to head home early! I've been back to work since the end of August. I'm working 4 days a week and find it's a good balance. I use my Friday off to either spend time with the girls and have play dates or else run errands and try to keep up with everything around the house! My Fridays off were also a wonderful blessing for getting Christmas shopping done! Chad has been pretty busy with work too and did some traveling in October. He also keeps busy with our rental properties!
Well, that's a quick recap of us! Here are 2 of my favorite close-ups of the girls! These were taken a few days ago..Makayla is 28 months and Lydia is 9 months old!

Random Fall Photos

Here's a photo from one of our last weekends up at the Evers' Family cabin.Grandma and Grandpa Sandoval visited in October and we had a fun trip to the N.E.W. Zoo!

Here are a few photos of the girls enjoying the fall weather!

Here are the Halloween duck and Halloween monkey!

Makayla got her hair cut recently and the hair stylist gave her some braided pig tails!

I've been so careful not to let Lydia eat Makayla's goldfish because I didn't want her to choke. All of the sudden I heard a "mmm, mmm, mmm" chomping sound and I found Lydia enjoying Makayla's cup of goldfish! I guess Lydia has graduated to getting her own cup of snacks! LOL!

Lydia Walking

Last night Lydia surprised us by deciding to take a walk across the room behind one of her toys! I caught a few of her strolls on video! You'll have to ignore Makayla throwing a tantrum in the background! In fact, you may want to turn your sound down a little! LOL! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rooIGtySuDs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0QRYfZ_sok

Fall Family Photos

Here's some of my favorites from our recent family photos!

Lydia Standing

Lydia has 1 mission in life these days...stand! Here are 2 quick videos of her standing! I'm just figuring out the video camera and uploading videos to YouTube, so hopefully I'll post more videos in the future!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWsoai3xIGk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bpms8Unmbg

Thankfully, Lydia has gotten much better at standing over the past 3 weeks! She used to fall all the time! She's had several bumps and bruises to her face...the worst was a black eye and 2 huge bruises on her cheek! However, falling did not slow her down...she cried a little, but didn't want to be held long before she was back at it! Chad saw her take a few steps along the coffee table last night, so that's going to be her next trick...cruising along on the furniture!

My Girls

Here's a few random photos of the girls!