Decorating for Christmas

Since we have company coming in this week, we decided to get the house decorated for Christmas… the earliest we've ever done it. 

 We bought our first fake tree (yay, no pine needles to clean up… boo, no wonderful pine smell…)

 The girls decorating their tree in their bedroom

 Playing with the nativity sets

Notice Jasmine and her pet tiger Raja have joined the Nativity scene (along with a Fisher Price pilot!) 

The "Elf on the Shelf" has joined the Madea family this year...

Tis the season

For LEAVES! We spent 14 hours this weekend raking/blowing and bagging leaves...

We had to play just a little...

 Cora is QUITE the helper now...

In the end, we left 79 bags (a new record) out for pick up…

And woke the next morning to a yard-full of new down leaves, SIGH!

Happy Thanksgiving!

What a great day! So many things to be thankful for… we are so blessed :) 

 Greg pre-morning run in Cora's pilgrim hat

 Naptime between football games

 YAY Lions! Ironically, we were at the game 10 years ago when Packers were at Lions on Thanksgiving day… which was the last time they won. 

 Our "feast"

 FaceTiming with Michigan

Christmas cookies

Today Cora and Becky made homemade cookies for Thanksgiving. Cora especially loved the science behind mixing colors for the frosting. 

Sega

We're so excited to take Aunt Becky to Preschool Open Gym today...

 Emi working on her cartwheel

Yippie, Aunt Becky's back!

She's here for the Thanksgiving week and we are soooo excited!

 Yoga time!

(nice capes)

 Taking a snooze

 Only Aunt Becky paints these girls' nails :) 

Happy 9 months, Louisa!

Louisa's keeping us on our toes. She's totally mobile via crawling and pulling herself up to stand. Of course she's a curious little cat and into everything. She's saying a few more words (ma ma, da da) and is starting to eat some solid foods. She's got 3 teeth now and is working on her final front tooth. I'm not sure on her current stats, but she's growing a TON!

 Pulling herself into the moses basket to join the dolls

 Scooting in playroom

Standing at activity table