Our life lately....

The Peterson's- Christmas Eve 2008 (Minus Andy and Candice)

We went to church on Christmas Eve as we always do- Riley and Cole both were captivated by the music and lights. Our church always does such a good job with worship. Riley loved it and decided to dance in the aisle to Silent Night as the service ended. From there, we always have dinner and some Christmas at Brian's parents- where Riley enjoyed making cookies and providing us with more laughs.

At first sight of the sprinkles, Riley grabs a handful and crams them in her mouth- as if to do it so fast that hopefully we wouldn't see. How can you get mad at that excitement on Christmas Eve baking cookies?

hmmm...should I be eating all these sprinkles?

Cole sure is happy about something..hopefully it's not what's in the background. (that was by accident)

Santa visited us in overload this year!!!

watch what happens to poor Steve as the pictures progress!

Totally crashed out on the floor Christmas night after a day of no nap and overload of excitement...

The weekend after Christmas, Kara and Anthony were in town for the week so we joined them at Santa Fe Flats where Nate was singing...Riley took Cole and started swaying with him and trying to dance. We were all cracking up laughing. She is always the entertainer.

She was upset at us when we left and kept saying "Nate"...we were saying good bye to Anthony and glanced inside the truck to check on the kids and her head and face were covered in something wet. We looked around thinking maybe she dumped water over her head that she found in the truck. Nope. We kept looking..finally, we just asked her what she did to herself. She opens her mouth and says, "agh.." like you do at the dr's office. Yes, that's right...she had spit in her hand and rubbed it all over her face and hair. She was mad at us for making her leave the music. Let's just say she got a good scrubbin' when we got home a few minutes later.

Cole didn't make it until the New Year- he slept right through all the fireworks and noise outside.

We really enjoyed spending time with everyone this holiday- Brian took off this last week of work so we were both home and enjoyed time to sit around and relax with the kids. We had some good times with friends this week and did some shopping at the outlet mall and ventured out to Market Street another day ( a new favorite of mine). It was really nice just to sit and relax and let the week pass by slowly.

We did have some firsts this last week:

- Cole starting sitting up and got his 1st TOOTH! That happened Tuesday (12/30) literally in the span of a few hours that afternoon- we couldn't figure out why he was so cranky on the way home from the Woodlands. Hunger was part of the problem. Fixed that (no tooth) I checked thinking maybe his mouth hurts also and gave him oragel to also try and help. Thought all was ok until dinner when mom got a sharp bite on her finger when I spoiled him with some mashed potatoes.

My gummybear is no more and he is growing so fast. He sat up about the same time as Riley did but she didn't get her first tooth until she was 7 1/2 months old. They both got the exact same tooth (bottom right was the 1st)