Catching Up

Well it has been a really long time since my last post and a lot has happened.
We had Christmas in Vermont on our own. It was a wonderful peaceful Christmas. We spent Christmas Eve with our friends and Christmas day as a family. Joshua spent the whole day in his pajamas playing with his new toys.




A week later we flew out to California so Caleb could do an Anesthesia rotation in Santa Barbara. Joshua has been in heaven playing every day with all his cousins, he is literally falling into bed every night completely exhausted from playing so hard all day. Of course everybody also loves and has been enjoying Abigail.





We ended up blessing Abigail the first Sunday we were here. Originally we were going to bless her in Vermont, but things kept coming up, and then the majority of our friends left town. Long story short we figured it was better to wait until she was a little older so that we could at least have more than Caleb in the circle :). It was great to have family there to share it with us, and we we were so grateful that they drove up to participate. Caleb gave a beautiful blessing.






Caleb has finished all his interviews. One of his last interviews was up in San Fransisco so we all drove up together and made a little family adventure out of it. Although it will not be in our top five... it was a fun little trip.



Lately we are just excitedly awaiting the birth of my sisters 4th little boy. I threw her a little baby shower and have been trying to help keep her distracted and just letting Joshua enjoy having so many playmates. Abigail is three months old now so I took her pictures here are a couple of them. All I can say about them is adorable.

The Interview Trail

Caleb was doing interviews all over the west for two weeks this month. He had six interviews in 13 days. He liked all the programs, some more than others. He has had nine interviews ans twelve total so we are almost done! The hard part is going to be ranking them. While he was gone we tried to stay busy. We got our first snow storm.

Joshua wanted to make a snow man. So we went out during one of Abigail's naps and attempted to make one out of the icey snow. It turned out funny but Joshua loved it. We made a baby Abigail one so of course we had to make a Joshua, mommy and daddy one too.

Joshua likes to hold Abigail several times a day.

I was taking a shower and kept hearing Joshua running back and forth from the playroom to the bathroom laughing. So i peeked out of the curtain to find Abigail covered with blocks and little people. He said he was building a big house with "Abidail" she didn't seem to mind. Although she had more blocks on her that Joshua obediently took off and who knows how many more he would have got. I always get some surprises when I get out of the shower.

Trying to kill all our indoor time with really bubbley bubble baths.

Abigail is getting really big and strong. She is starting to push up on her elbows.

About two weeks ago she started to smile at me and coo. I love having her responding.

Joshua still loves her and holding her. He is very loving and concerned for her when she is sad.

Overall we did good while Caleb was gone but we are all very glad to have him home.

Giving Thanks

We were on our own again for Thanksgiving this year. We spent the day together cooking and baking. Joshua had a lot of fun helping out at EVERY step.

Here are the two kids after the big meal. I get the whole turkey-stupor thing, but why Abigail?

Of course for Caleb, it's no tough dilemma...

In keeping with our day-after-thanksgiving family tradition we went to Home Depot for a Christmas tree. Decorating it was a bit more of a protracted process than in past years, but at least we finished in time for pictures after church on Sunday.

Of note, this was Abigail's first Sunday going to church. Yes, I had WAAAAAYYYYYY to much fun dressing her up.

Pictures

I have taken a lot more pictures that I thought I would post. Abigail is growing very quickly and doing great. Joshua is adjusting to having a sibling. He loves her and gives her kisses all the time...almost too often. He is always wanting to hold her. Although today he complained that Abigail is always sleeping.

This was my dress when I was a baby, I was so excited to put it on her.

Almost a smile from both of them :)