Gingerbread Trains

Thanks to an early Christmas present from Aunt Marie, Krieg had a blast building and decorating this gingerbread train. He especially loved that he could eat the "glue."

9 Months

I think these pictures capture a little of Karis' curious, fun, crazy personality. In the last month, Karis has learned to crawl, pull up on EVERYTHING, fly up the stairs, and get into anything and everything in our house. I don't think there is a cabinet that hasn't been opened (until the locks went on) a bookshelf that hasn't been unloaded, or a nook and cranny uninspected. My favorite moment of the week was when I was unloading the dishwasher yesterday, I turned my head for a minute and found Karis 3/4 of the way into the dishwasher, with a huge grin on her face. The one thing that always surprises me about her is that as adventuresome as she is, she is SO dramatic when she falls down or hits her head on something, which happens way too often.

We sure do love her curious, dramatic self

Christmas Trees

On Monday we made a trip up to Cullowhee to the Stewart Family Tree farm to cut down our Christmas tree at our friends' farm and do a little visiting. It was freezing at the top of the mountain, but beautiful and totally worth it. In trying to remember warm things for everyone else, I not only forgot my hat, but my coat as well. Thankfully Kevin had an extra sweatshirt! Krieg had a great time walking up and down the "aisles" or trees and helping Kevin pick out the perfect one. Thanks Stewarts for letting us come for a visit!

Lately

Here are a few things we've been up to lately...

We are still trying to sneak in a few more runs to the park before the real winter cold hits. I am so thankful the kids will tough out the stroller for a 20 minute run. It does wonders for my sanity!



Since Karis has become a pretty proficient crawler, she has become a much better playmate for Krieg. Most of the time Krieg likes that she can follow him places (into forts, tents, etc) but he is quickly having to learn to be generous with his things when his heart wants so badly to be selfish!

Karis has decided that she much prefers being on her feet than on her knees. She is cruising around everything. Her favorite new discovery is our bathrooms. Anytime she sees a bathroom door open, she bee-lines for it. The other day I had just finished cleaning one of them, so I let her explore to her heart's content, and she literally spent 20 min in this tiny space, checking everything out, all with a huge smile on her face. If Krieg's descriptive word is cautious, then Karis' is definitely curious. She wants to know about everything!