Christmas Eve

I feel like I am way behind on blogging. Last week Dave and I were hit hard by the flu, so I really haven't been doing very much. Here goes my attempt at catching us up through the new year.

Christmas eve we started out by helping Papa make some sugar cookies. Papa makes the best sugar cookies, yum!

Then it was off to Sunnyvale for the Dickson Family Christmas eve gathering. We had lots of fun watching the kids perform the Nativity. Then it was time for the fish pond and everyone got to go fishing for their gifts from Grandma and Grandpa Dickson. We enjoyed just spending this time with family since it has been nearly 5 years since we have been around to join everyone for the holidays.

                                            The cutest sheep ever!

                                             Nathan with Uncle Taylor

                                                             Fish pond

                                     Finally we ended the night opening some new pajamas.

4 months

Today Brady is 4 months old. He is such a happy boy and very rarely cries. Last Saturday he finally started sleeping through the night. I had been working with sleep training him for a few weeks. I knew that he could make it 5-6 hrs at night since he would occasionally sleep that long, but it still seemed like we spent more nights up 2 or more times. So after putting him down for the night at 11 I would only feed him again if it was after 4am. Several nights in a row he woke up between 1 and 2 so I would re-swaddle him and rock him back to sleep. Then Sunday morning I woke up to Nathan calling for me at 7 and he has been sleeping from 10-7or8 ever since. Sleep sure does make me happy.
Brady loves to either be sitting with support or on his belly for playtime. Every time I lay him on his back he immediately rolls to his stomach and is starting to use his new found rolling abilities to move around the floor.

At his doctors appointment today Brady weighed 14lbs 1oz and was 25in long. He already weighs as much as Nathan did at 6months.

Firetrucks and Sugar cookies

Last Saturday was Grandma Dickson's grand-kids Christmas party. We really missed these gatherings while we were living in Idaho. We enjoyed spending the day at Grandma's eating pizza and giving toy gifts to the firemen. Nathan was very excited for the firemen to arrive mostly because he wanted to give them his gifts. He is such a sweet boy always worried about making sure everyone is happy. And as cool as the firetruck was Nathan wanted nothing to do with it. I made him go on a ride with me but after he got off he made sure to inform everyone that it wasn't fun.Oh well I had fun! After the party we stopped by the mall to finish up our Christmas shopping.
We were excited when we got home to discover Grandpa Bell had made a batch of sugar cookies. So after dinner Nathan had a blast decorating some cookies.

                                                Aunt Brianna and Brady

                                Making sure the firemen got all of the toys!

                              
                                                            Cookie time!

Christmas Program

Nathan has been part of a Joy school the past several months. He loves going to school. I love the interaction that Nathan gets and it is so good seeing him make new friends. For Christmas this year we took the kids to a local nursing home to put on a Christmas program. We had the kids sing several songs and then had them perform the nativity story. Afterwards the center had some cookies for the kids. Nathan sure had a great time.

                                          Handsome Shepherd!