I must be really lucky because so far I have two really good eaters. Since moving on from rice cereal Jack really got into it. He gets really excited when you sit him in his chair and smacks his lips until he gets his first bite. Fruits right now are his favorite (I'm assuming since they are sweet) but he has yet to reject anything. Right now Will's favorites are juice (preferrably apple) and crackers, nothing too exciting, however he does eat just about anything. Will has also taught Jack how to rip off his bib, not such a big deal with Will, but Jack is so messy that a bib is a must!
After what felt like an hour of trying to get a good picture of the boys this is the picture I almost put on our Christmas card. Every time I look at it, I'll be able to relive the whole debackle. Wow, I know getting a good photo of a toddler can be difficult, but add a baby who right now wants to be held all the time and you are asking for trouble. Not to worry, a perfect Christmas picture is in our future, I can feel it!
The boys opened their first gift of the season. It was a cloth book of Rudolph th Red Nose Reindeer (the classic version we all grew up watching on TV) from Grandma Peppmeier. Holiday news: Will has begun to identify Santa. Unfortunatly I think it's the beard he recoginizes because the other day while he was in a store with Doug he pointed to a man with a long beard and started shouting, "Santa, Santa!" And, if you ask Will what Santa says, he'll reply, "ho, ho, ho". It's pretty funny.Also, I passed the Oregon Real Estate license exam on Friday. I am so thrilled and thankful to be done with all the studying.
We went to get our Christmas tree last Sunday. It had been raining on and off since Thanksgiving evening so when the rain stopped we decided to go out and get a tree. We went to Lee Farms off of 65th in Tualatin (the same place we went for pumpkins). They are running a pretty smooth operation out there. We decided to bypass the pre-cut trees and find our own. There are people from the farm driving by in tractors every 10-15 minutes, all you have to do is flag them down, they cut the tree and take it back to a staging area where they wrap up the tree in twine and put it on top of your car. Doug and I decided we like this process much better than visiting the boy scout lot (though they are very friendly) where they drag your tree across a parking lot and then anywhere from 2-10 boy scouts try and attach the tree to your car. Don't mind the glasses Will's wearing. They are his sunglasses from this summer minus the lenses. For some reason he really likes wearing them, especially in public.
