Walking at 10 months, 25 days old!!!

Ever is taking his first steps already.  A few days ago he showed some promise and has been nudged a little to keep trying to walk upright.  He has been successfully coaxed to walk in between people sitting on the floor, and has been caught taking his own steps between thing in the house without coaxing.  His first "walk" on his own lasted about 5 steps and was in response to Rhiannon taking something from him, and he trying to follow her to get it back.  Lets hope that doesn't foreshadow the next 17 years.... although, we know it will.

Tree trimming, cookie baking, house building

It has been a while since the last post.  So much has happened.  The sippycup gang has been rather busy.  We trimmed the tree.   Jennifer and one of her girlfriends, Karen, made cookies with the kids.  We also built a gingerbread house.  

Alaric had his hands full with trimming the tree, as Rhiannon wanted to hang all of the ornaments and could only reach the lowest branches.  Rhiannon did have a blast putting the sprinkles on the cookies, though now we are going to be finding sprinkles until summer.... sprinkles everywhere!

     

Building our gingerbread house was a fiasco.  The icing was a little thin, so glueing the house frame together was sketchy, but finally it worked.  We let the design up to Alaric and Rhiannon and they did a pretty good job of decorating the roof and the front of the house, worked very well together, and Rhiannon got pretty sugared up on confectioners sugar.

    

Totally Dr. Seuss, if you ask me!

  

We have been trying to eat a little healthier, plan meals better than we have been over the past few months and keep the junk food out of the house, but we had ice cream over the weekend, Ever seemed to enjoy it!  I think he had an ice cream headache about half way through.  Check out the moooovie:

Other than that fun, we pretty much lounged around and Jennifer got to get in some quality time on the sofa with Rhiannon in between bouts of studying for a big test at school.  Rhiannon looks like she just totally is enjoying sitting with Mommy:

Ever and Rhiannon had the best of times cheesing it up for the camera too.  

      

decorating

Well, we have accomplished setting up all of the indoor Christmas crap.  Yup, took it all right out of the box that said Christmas Crap.  George still has to tackle the outside Christmas crap and was totally up to it before this weekend got a little complicated with family stuff and snow.  So he will have to do it later.  He did get some new outdoor lights that have some function that you can change how they flash.  It has 8 settings and he took the time to change the settings and then write down what each setting blinked like....only to find out that the same information was written on the back of the setting dial.  Genius maneuver there.

We got a tree at Lowe's, totally cheap, totally just picked the one that looked kinda the right size.  This because I (George) went with all three kids and really didn't have the time to be super picky.  Well the cool thing is that two people have said that it is a really nice fake tree.  So I guess we got totally lucky and got a fake looking real tree.  

Rhiannon had a good time dancing to a little Santa doll that would play music if she squeezed his hand...never mind the streaker half way through.

The first blog of the Sippycup Gang

Musings of the week gone by.

This week was just another great one for the Gang, George did a wonderful job of managing time and getting the children to where they had to be.  This was accomplished by dropping off Alaric at indoor soccer an hour late.  The ordeal was multiplied by the fact that after dropping him off he ran an errand and Alaric had to be taken home by his coach.  We believe that Alaric was slightly traumatized by the entire event.  

One snazzy thing though did come from this week and that is the fact that Ever will cease throwing a fit in the car if we play a Jack Johnson song on the radio.  For some reason this has a soothing effect greater than anything we have yet seen.  He will actually go from screaming so loudly that he is coughing to silent in about 4 seconds.  

Rhiannon's joyous event for the week was her ability to draw on the inside of her ear with a ballpoint pen.  Don't ask how she did it, but thats where it ended up.  

As for the parental figures of the group, George worked, and Jen learned all week....not too much to report there.  :) 

Time to go for now, have to nibble some yummy brownies that we just pulled out of the oven!