Liberty is getting closer to putting it all together. Today she pulled up on the pack-n-play and couch!

Pap and Janice visited today! Liberty May is just so content in his arms! She’s going through the stranger anxiety phase/only want mom phase, but that definitely doesn’t apply to her Pap! 🙂

Canton had his first wrestling match today!

Each if the kids took some self portraits :). Enjoy moms duck face!

Liberty has this sitting thing down now! She can reach to toys she wants and sit back up, although she still tries to stand a little too much for my taste. On her belly she can get her knees under her but doesn’t seem to know what to do after that. Canton didn’t crawl until nine months, I have a feeling she’ll beat him. Her fine most skills are great though, can manipulate her wrists well, and even use a pincher grasp!

She’s bucking her nap, sometimes only taking a 20-30 minute nap the whole day! Just like big brother! I suppose I should be grateful for 10:30-7:30 overnight though…you can almost set your watch by her.

Liberty has been experimenting with her tongue lately, trying to make new sounds and pointing it, quite cute! She doesn’t babble as much as Canton, but he does enough talking for the both of them. But, we have heard a distinct “ma-mi” which is a change from her “mum mum mum”.

Her most favorite thing is, of course, Canton! She loves to watch whatever he’s doing, and he’s a super brother. He helps by bringing me burpies, diapers, and he shows her little toys that he thinks she’ll like. As I suppose most second children do, Liberty is a pro at entertaining herself. As long as we are near by/within sight she is quite content sitting and playing with her toys, especially her new mirror! If there is a crinkly plastic bag anywhere close, watch out!

Overall, she continues to be a very happy girl, a perfect addition, we couldn’t imagine us without her! 🙂

Weight: 16 lb 2 oz
Height: 28 in

Boys stayed up for NYE, girls did not 🙂

Whew! Christmas with two kids! We were so lucky to have Rhonda and Pap join us for Liberty’s first Christmas! We also got to facetime with Becky/Ben AND Nanny with Jesse!

We started gifts on Christmas Eve with Poppy and Grandma. Then we headed to GGs house for some snacks and another round of presents. Canton really enjoyed the loud truck he got from Great Aunt Sally.

The night ended with cookies for Santa and a reading of “The Night Before Christmas”. Canton was quite excited to track Santa on NORAD and enjoyed telling Liberty all about Christmas.

Rhonda and Pap entertained Canton so late last night he didn’t go to bed until after 11, so he didn’t wake up until Mom and Dad went in to get him. He excitedly ran down the hall to see what Santa had left. He got a large map of Africa he really liked and some great books, his favorite was an inflatable space shuttle and astronaut. He was also excited to see that Santa left the measuring cups he asked for in his stocking. Yes, measuring cups, because as he told us “I really like to do experiments and I love fractions!” Are we lucky or what? Canton also had tons of presents from Nanny and Rhonda. From Nanny he really liked the pictures from NASA and a squishy human body model with all the bones and organs. Rhonda brought WAAAY to many presents, he’s already torn into a car track with double loops, a kinetic space lab (kind of like mouse trap), but he still has lots of presents he hasn’t even played with yet because she brought so many!

Liberty made everyone laugh at what a pro she was at opening presents, like she has done it her whole life or something. We definitely aren’t going to have to buy any clothes for her for quite a while, Rhonda has her styling! Her favorite toy is a Princess Makeup mirror that tells her how beautiful she is, gender stereotypes anyone?

Mike made almost the whole meal himself and did a fantastic job! He makes a killer broccoli casserole.

We sure miss everyone and are blessed for our wonderful family! Merry Everything!

Canton attempted to make his first paper snowflake today, his future teachers can thank me later for the hours of distraction this provides!