Christmas

We have had a wonderful Christmas week. Both Joshua and I have been off the whole week and are loving spending time with Judah as a family. We went to Christmas Eve service at Calvary and then spent the evening at my dads house. It was a blessing to have my Grandma with us this year since she recently moved to Puyallup. We spent Christmas day at my moms house. It was a wonderful time celebrating God's gift of his son.

 On Thursday my mom watched Judah while we went on a double date with Kaaryn and Willie to see the Hunger games. Loved it!!! Then on Friday Krista and Michael had us up to Seattle to get together with my dad's side of the family. After spending time at her house for a while we took Judah on his first adventure to Pike's Place Market and went to look at Christmas lights!

Christmas dancing

Because of our crazy schedules this year we were not able to get out Christmas cards or have our usual  Couples Christmas party but we did enjoy receiving them from others.

Judah has been cracking us up lately. He is ALL BOY. Loves sword fighting, balls and now drumming. What a character :)

New words, no more school

This week Joshua finished his last online class! After four years we are thrilled he is done and will have more time! Judah continues to grow like a weed and is learning more each day. After 8 months of us signing to him, he has finally started singing back. He can sign "dog, all done, hat, eat", and "milk". We are working on please and thank you currently. He also has more words he loves to say including "on, bye bye, mom, dad", and "uh oh". If onomatopeias count he has also learned to say kiss, though it sounds like "mmmmmuh."
This week our neighbors decided to string Christmas lights from their house to the neighbors across the street. They invited us out to watch the lighting and it was a blast. We finished the week with our small group Christmas party and Joshua's work Christmas party.  We snuck out of the last party early to catch the Hobbit!

Seahawks, Spoon Fights, and Pancakes

      Our weeks have been as busy as always, between my attending school and working (Joshua) and Allison working and pushing through her National Board Certification. But we make sure to have fun amidst the hectic schedules :)
    This week we had some quality time at home with Judah. He has picked up on sword fighting somehow and is working his way through household items, including the doorstop dowel and the kitchen spoons.
     We also spent a weekend morning at the Original Pancake House with Judah

and watched the Hawks game at home.

Week 59: Christmas tree time

This week we got in the Christmas spirit and got our tree. It is a lot of fun with a kid who is aware this year and loves to look at the lights!

 I wanted to post a few flash backs from last year. How quickly our baby became a little boy

 Caught playing with the lights and tree topper

Week 58: Great Grandma and more adventures

My Grandma moved to Washington this month and we are so excited to have her close. Judah got to go visit her with us this week. He really enjoyed her rocking chairs especially when he figured out how to make it rock all by himself.

 Judah is now more mobile than ever which is creating a few problems.... He has discovered how to get food out of the pantry for himself.

 Judah was watching Daddy mow the lawn. He loves watching him work.

 Judah normally will not leave on hats but he liked this Husky one.

In addition to walking more this week Judah said Bye and started giving us hugs and kisses!

Week 57: Milestones

This was a HUGE week of milestones. On Sunday Judah stood on his own. Joshua was playing with him and he was holding Joshua's phone and just let go. Then on Tuesday he waved goodbye to me when I dropped him off at childcare and when I picked him up our nanny let us know he was holding onto the couch and turned and took a few steps.  He has been standing for short bursts all week now. His favorite is to stand ON the couch and let go and jump up and down until he falls. Who needs standing when you can jump! Of course we have no pictures of any of this but it all happened! We did get a picture of when he decided to crawl into the drawer. He thought he was so funny.

Also I forgot to post about it last week but Judah started saying ball. He loves balls and he saw some boys throwing a  football in Costco and looked over and said Ball. Speaking of balls this week we went to Chucky Cheese for a family night out event my school did and I was so disappointed to see the ball pit gone. We did carry Judah up into the tubes so he could crawl around but he hated it and clinged to us.

 He did however love the pizza there but only when we gave him the whole slice. When we tried to give it to him in pieces he shook his head no and refused. He handled the whole piece like a champ.

And he was very excited to play skeeball. This kid with the balls. 

On Friday Joshua and I met up with the Fores for a date night at the 

Switchfoot Fading West movie and EP show. It was excellent. Blessed to be able to attend!

On Sunday Judah suckered me into buying this nerf ball at the grocery store (and so it begins) but he made it worth it by playing with it during the Seahwaks game today! 

Week 56: Tree Farm and SEAHAWKS

On Monday at our Housegroup all four kids were there with us. When one eats they all need to eat so we got this priceless shot of the toodlers :)

 

 Judah Loves hanging out with Grandma Barb

 On Saturday the Fores, Cooks, and Grandma Barb got together to go to the Double Tree Farm for early tree selection. That's right we pre-pick our tree in November. This family does not mess around with Christmas ;)

 Grandma Barb was worried about him being cold so she wrapped him in her scarf. Hysterical

 Judah helps daddy decorate the tree

 On Sunday the families got together again to watch the Seahawks bring in another win!!!!