Christmas 2010

Benson sporting his new shades

Ponies, coloring books and bath toys... what more could a girl ask for? It isn't Christmas without Dad's Christmas Village

Vanessa killed Rudolph

Playing with the kids... Vanessa sat on my head and they all joined in

Santa's Little Helper

Christmas in Florida

It may not snow here, but some people get into the Christmas spirit like I've never seen before. Exhibit A. The Hyatt family. They start decorating in AUGUST! After Thanksgiving, they open up their yard for people to walk through, set out punch and cookies and have a big screen with cartoons playing.
Vanessa was terrified of this Santa and wouldn't get near it.
I also have to mention that even though I am in a t shirt and capris, it was NOT warm this night. I froze! I have now accepted that it does get cold, even in Florida, and I have to wear warm clothes.
Exhibit B (and my personal favorite) is yet to come...

The Twins Become Big Bertha...HELP!

I have a SERIOUS problem. For no apparent reason, my left side has shut down production. Okay, not shut-down, but taking it a little too easy? I suppose this might be why Benson still eats so often. He gets enough for sure, it's just mainly out of one side and he can rarely make it four hours. But the problem here is that having one side produce that much LOOKS a little funny. Call me vain but I don't want ONE big bertha. I am obviously and uncomfortably lopsided. So why am I exposing this embarrasing dilemma? That's right! Help! Any and all advice welcome, from those experienced in this area preferable.

Happy Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving feast: Hotdogs, soda and apple pie on the beach.

I tried to get Lynette to do a bikini photo shoot, but this is all I got.

This face plant was on purpose... guess she wanted to see what sand tastes like.

Life is good.

Halloween...just in time for Thanksgiving

So I am more than a little slow on this post, but I had to go in chronological order and I was really behind.
For Halloween we got all dressed up and headed over to the church for a Trunk or Treat. Vanessa was so excited she feel asleep in the car and so did Benson :) We actually couldn't wake her up, which has happened maybe twice in her whole life. Jon tried standing her up and she still stayed asleep!


Benson was a black widow.

And Vanessa was Belle

My Two Cuties

These were taken October 28. We spend a lot of time on our bed, ironically. Vanessa usually naps on our bed because it is the one room in the house that is only for sleeping. Her room is also the office and quite used during nap time (such as for blogging, or Jon studying). And after a nap, of course we spend some time on the bed waking up. We also do baths in our bathroom (for some random reason the plug in the other bathroom doesn't work), so after a bath, they both end up on the bed getting diapered. I pulled out the camera this day because the lighting was so perfect. Vanessa was in a super funny mood and kept trying to put my glasses on both herself and Benson. I think the poor kid got poked in the eye. But he is such a trooper with her. I think he's going to have to put up with a lot.

Benson

Vanessa at the pumpkin patch

We have a million more to go through, but here are a few. She is in a camera hate stage. She doesn't like to look at us when we are even holding the camera. We've tried everything, noises, random objects to look at, treats, she's not buying it. But she is really good at the GQ look :) Jon thinks she looks a lot like me in the second picture.

So Behind....

Here are a few pics taken of Benson October 22 and 23. I can't believe this was a month ago. He's already so much chubbier. We'll catch up one of these days. This was about the time he started smiling for real. Maybe a week or two earlier. But this is the first smile we caught on the camera. He smiles and coos like crazy now. We sure do love the little guy.