Our Lil Munchkins: Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Well, I am quite behind on blog updates! 3 holidays have passed since I last wrote! We enjoyed a quiet Thanksgiving at home since Drew had to work that Fri., then headed up to OK to visit my family after he got home. Had a fun weekend of football and eating leftovers. Shelby spent a week with Granny & Granpa in Dec while I went to Puerto Rico to visit my best friend. She had a baby in September and I was dying to see her and meet the lil one. It was a lot of fun and I had a nice little break from being Mom...we didn't do much, just lots of talking & hanging out & playing with the baby, which I thought was perfect. Then I went to OK to see my lil munchkin and we spent a week there through Christmas. This year was so much more fun since she & Mason could open their presents and were more into it. Shelby had quite the cold since Thanksgiving...we finally went to the Dr. after she had it for over 5 weeks. She did really well, letting the Dr. check her ears & lungs. He gave us an antibiotic and said it probably was a sinus infection. It does seems like she is finally getting over it. Thank goodness, I'm tired of wiping her runny nose! She has been chatting it up quite a bit these days, oftentimes just babbling as if she's telling me something really important...I just agree with her and pretend like I know what she said. But she has been saying a lot of words lately, often repeating a word right after she hears Drew or I say it. SO we are watching carefully what we say! Lately we've heard truck, cheese, kick, cold, out, go, trash and football is known as "ba-ba". We're really getting a kick out of this phase, definitely keeps us on our toes. We're headed to CA to visit Drew's family in a couple of weeks and I'll be keeping Abby again starting mid-January when Leslie returns to school. I think Shelby will be happy to have her playmate back! She has seemed to wonder where she's been. All in all we had a blessed holiday, so much to be thankful for with Drew home. We're looking forward to 2008 and all that it brings!