First Time in the Jumperoo

He even did a couple little hops. Mostly he stared at the animals though. Paige acted like she'd never seen it before, but wanted to get in SO bad.

Our Little Serpent

First of all, here's a shot of that serpent smile I mentioned.

We went to our niece Faith's Christmas program tonight. Cason was happy to be there.

Paige desperately wanted to join the preschoolers on "stage".

She thinks she's pretty cool with her big cousins.

Schlupp

Paige has had a sudden HUGE increase in her vocabulary the last 3 weeks or so. She started saying all kinds of new words right about when we moved into the house. At least 20 or 25 new ones, I would guess. Most of them are clear and obvious, and she'll just copy anything we say. But some aren't quite as clear, and we just figure them out by paying attention to the context. Her newest one is "schlupp" which means "spitup". She freaks out if Cason spits up at all, or even drools a tiny bit. She yells "schlupp" and points at it until I clean him off. This morning he spit up a little on his chin and she goes "OH NO! OH GOSH! SCHLUPP!" "Oh no" and "oh gosh" are pretty recent ones, too.

The boy baby is starting to smile the best best smile, with the tip of his tongue sticking out a little. Cute little serpent baby.

Peanuts and a Wedding

We went in to the doctor today, to talk about Paige's allergy test results. Ironically, the "peanut" in our "Chunky P B and J" IS allergic to peanuts. There are 6 levels of severity, and she's a 5. Now we have a prescription to get an epinephrine kit just in case. Ugh. My poor sweet one can never have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The best meal on earth. Not to mention it's quite scary.

On a happier note, my cousin Brandon and his fiance(well, wife now)Lindsay got married today. Congratulations guys. It was a really nice wedding. Cason slept through it and Paige was VERY good. Not so much at the reception. She screamed her head off during their first dance while I tried to keep her quiet. We left shortly after. A few great pictures from the wedding.
Flattering of me:

Flattering of Jess:

Close, but Paige looks horrified and Cason looks angry:

On another happy note, Cason visited and smiled at his Great Grama today. Actually both babies were fussier than usual for the visit, but this was a happy moment.

Meanwhile, Paige did some of her trademark organizing and lining up of whatever she can get her hands on.

Paige also put on a little concert with Grammy and Cason (who had to have his pants unbuttoned to accommodate his growing belly).

"Zug?"

Tonight we went looking at Christmas lights. It was so much fun with Paige this year, she gets all excited, calls Santa "Sandy" and goes "WOW!" every time we see a new house with lights.

Sometimes she got most excited over the simplest displays. But then she saw this house:

and did this:(sorry it's blurry)

Then she asked me "Zug?" which is short for "Let's hug?". But since I couldn't reach her, she settled for holding hands.

Dracula

Today Paige counted her money.

I also finally got a picture of her doing "Numo" or sumo.

Cason looked like Dracula. I love his face in this one. It makes me laugh.

And my mom and I made Divinity. An army of them. Well, she made it, I did very little. It's so dang good. But rich. Oh so rich. So I had it and lots of soda. Now my teeth are going to fall out.

Let's finish off with a picture of Cason smiling at me WHILE falling asleep. He's so sweet.

Cason Laughing

Here's a little video we took of him last night.