Mesmerized.

 It is the most wonderful time of the year!  I love Christmas decorations, lights, and especially music.  Sweet baby K is also loving this time of year, mostly the lights.

Her favorite place to lay is in front of the fireplace and our little Christmas tree.  She just stares at the lights and is completely mesmerized.  She is content for the longest time just staring at the lights.  It is so crazy to see her going from a little fussy to complete contentment when she finds the lights.  I can even leave her there for a short period of time to tend to big brother and sister.  We may have our lights up a little longer than usual this year...

2 weeks.

Happy 2 weeks sweet baby Kenzie!  Wowsers where have the past 2 weeks gone?  I can't believe Kenzie has been in our home for two weeks already.  It is amazing how much love you can have for a sweet little baby in that short amount of time.  She is the noisiest of our three babies and spends quite a bit of time awake.  She hasn't quite realized that she should sleep more at night yet.  She is a good eater, but must be growing as she nurses about every 2 hours during the day and every 3 hours at night.  Her big sister Kadence was sleeping through the night at 5 weeks old and I doubt I could be that lucky again.  As long as she is healthy, I can deal with little sleep.  Love her to pieces!!!

Just bathing in the sun...

Kenzie's bilirubin level has been a little high so she has been spending some quality time in front of the window.  Since it is kind of chilly, we put our little heater by her and she loves laying almost naked in the warmth.

Big sister thought she needed to keep her company the first day that we put her in the sun light.  It was pretty adorable.

This picture makes me chuckle.  By the third or fourth time Kenzie laid in the sun, the kids were so over it.  She's loving life in the warm sun and the kids are both doing their own thing right next to her.  Love it!

Her bilirubin is coming down and she is looking less jaundiced, thank goodness!

Sweet Siblings.

We have been enjoying our sweet baby Kenzie so much.  She has turned into a very content little baby.  Landon and Kadence have been so good with her, I am so amazed.  They are both very concerned about their baby sister all the time.  If she is fussing a little, they both tell me to pick her up.  They give her random kisses on her head several times a day; it is the most precious thing I have ever seen.  I know that we have only had her for 10 days, but I can not believe how good big brother and sister have been with her.  It is truly the neatest thing I have seen.  Love them all so very much!!

Decorating...

We had a the chance to get our Christmas tree and do a little bit of decorating.  The kids had such a great time!  They both helped decorate and were ecstatic to see which ornaments were "theirs."  We had a small problem with Kadence (my hoarder) who kept stockpiling her decorations and had a little meltdown when we made her put them on the tree.

Landon took his tree decorating seriously and even cried when we ran out of ornaments!

Who's that guy?!  Ryan actually even hung a few decorations on the tree!  I was impressed (even though it may have only been because his mom was here).

Not my best angle...ha!  I did also participate in the decorating.  I love decorating for Christmas and look forward to the day when we FINALLY move into our own home.

Our tree is decorated a bit unevenly with most of the decorations on the bottom.  I thought about rearranging when the kids went to bed, but it just made me so happy to look at the tree and think of how much fun they had that I couldn't do it.  Gone are the days when the tree is decorated perfectly...until they get older and don't want to decorate anymore.

'Tis the season!

First Snow.

Let it snow!  Let it snow!  Let it snow!

The kids (Landon especially) have been so anxious to get some snow.  We finally had our first snowfall and the kids had to take advantage right away.  They played outside with daddy until their cheeks were beat red.  

Love how they look like marshmallows with their coats and snow pants on.  They were so excited!!

Having a snowball fight!  I think the kids won :)  I have a feeling the more snow we get the more the kids are going to want to go out and play!

A visit with Grandpa Ken and Debbie (grandma)

My mom and dad came to visit for a couple days.  It was very good to see them and the kids were very excited to see Grandpa Ken and Debbie.  For some reason Landon has been calling my mom Debbie instead of Grandma Debbie.   It sounds kind of silly really, I am sure it is just a phase.

I was very glad they were able to make it when Kenzie was so little and the kids had a blast playing with them.  It was hard to see them go as usual, but we know they will be back in just a few weeks for Christmas!