Hey so if you haven't noticed I totally lost track of having a blog. Also I don't think anyone really reads it any more anyways as there was no cry-out for more updates so I don't really feel all that bad about not keeping up with it.
Lots has changed since the last time I wrote anything but I don't feel like playing catch up so I will just talk about what's going on now. Christmas is just around the corner. I love Christmas time and this year is no different. The only difference this year is that I have no desire to bake. This is crazy talk yo as I usually have my baking done mid-October. Here it is exactly one week until Christmas and Kiwi and I just baked some sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies today. It was actually a lot of fun making them with him as he did the rolling of the dough and pressing of the cookie cutters. He loved it. My inner self had a few moments where I had to put myself in check because it would be so much faster if I just did it or organized the cookie cutters in a way where I could fit 10-15 on one roll out whereas when he placed them it would be successful to get 5. Yes it was more work to have him "help" but to see how excited he was and how into it he was I wouldn't trade it.
Last weekend we had some friends over that don't have family in town. It's now an annual event (as we did it last year and again this year) to have a gingerbread house decorating evening. It is so much fun. We have dinner and then the rest of the evening we spend decorating our houses. I make the kids their very own little house so they can have all the creative freedom they want on decorating and then the adult houses can be done by just that, the adults.
Brenton loves to have parties so we will be hosting another party for his co-workers this weekend. This one will be a pot-luck and it shall be fun. I am already kind of looking forward to the quietness that comes after the Christmas season. It just seems to be so busy for a week and a half straight and then breath. Don't get me wrong, I love seeing people and catching up and having no structure, however I can only handle that for so long and then I just want to curl up under a blanket at home and just be still.
Sprout is freakin' adorable. I know I am biased, I get that but today especially she just melts my heart. She woke up in a super happy smiley mood. She gave several belly laughs over the slightest thing and she played shy a few times scrunching her cheek into her shoulder. She loves to be around the action and gets quite offended if we leave her in her swing where she can't see what's going on.
This blog might go silent or I might just pick it up again in the new year. I haven't decided at this point so we'll see how the next week and a half goes. We are planning on potty training Kiwi so maybe I will have some fresh material to blog about. Until next time
Merry Christmas
Michelle
