Three Months and Counting!

Happy Sunday, friends!  We hope you are staying warm during these chilly winter days (though today in Nashvegas is balmy and beautiful!).  Although we have continued to bundle up for some fresh air most days, our outside playtime has been shortened lately, so we have been doing our best to entertain each other inside, with lots of reading, arts and crafts, cooking, and such.  In the meantime, our little buddy James hit the three-month mark last week!  It is already hard to remember life without our precious guy; as babies go, he has an amazingly sweet, laidback disposition, and is generally as cute and content as can be:

OK, so he wasn't necessarily laidback and content immediately upon arrival...

...but he settled down in no time and began to eat, sleep, and snuggle like a champ. 

James has a delightfully attentive big sister, too, and is frequently the object of her attention, whether she is lavishing him with smothering hugs and kisses, showing off her block-building skills, reading to him, or dressing him up to play a part in her ballets:

Here, James is supposed to be the Mouse King in the Nutcracker:)

Besides watching his sister, James loves to do all sorts of things:

Visit with the same bluebird friend Ev once loved...

...wiggle around on the Boppy... 

 ...hang out with friends...

 ...watch an occasional basketball game with Daddy...

...and snuggle down in the Ergo for hikes in the woods.

We are so thankful for Baby James and love him dearly; we can't wait to watch him continue to learn and grow over the course of this year!

All I Wanna Do is Dance!

Happy weekend, friends!  In the midst of all the Auld-Lang-Syne-ing and making-of-resolutions and such, our sweet Doodle-bug started ballet class!  She has been begging her mama and daddy for a ballet class for over a year now, so we finally decided to jump in.  Doodle found some brand new ballet shoes and a cute pink leotard waiting for her under the Christmas tree in December, and I found a spot for her in a little class at a school not too far from home, run by a woman who taught Doodle's mama some ballet classes once upon a time:)  I cannot begin to describe how excited our girl was on Thursday morning; she was ready to don her leotard and tights right after breakfast, and asked if we could just wait in the car outside until it was time for class. This was all before 8 AM, mind you:) But after an excruciatingly long morning, we ate lunch and got ready to go!  And it. was. awesome.

Before...

...and after.

In the meantime, James was hanging out with his girl Charlie.  They are just getting acquainted, but it looks like things are going well so far:)

Whether you are dancing or hanging out with a new friend or doing something else entirely, enjoy your weekend!

Auld Lang Syne, Part I

Happy 2014, friends!  Before we get too deep into January, I figured we should hearken back to "old times since," as Robert Burns suggests....

Stay warm on this chilly Tuesday evening!