Maggie and her baby, wearing their matching dresses that Grandmoma made!
Caleb showing off his first-ever haircut!!
on Dec 23rd at our annual lawton family get-together. Casey being silly of course...
Ok so a few crazy months have passed! A lot has happened in our lives, it seems. Sometime in November we realized a lot of changes needed to be made at two of our stores, so we've spent a lot of hours working on the business and making the trips back and forth between here and Laurens and Clinton (about an hour away). The Holiday retail season was wild as always, but thankfully, we have wonderful employees who all helped cover the stores and we somehow survived all the craziness! Maggie and Caleb spent an awful lot of time at daycare. Casey and I have come up with a game plan for 2010, though... and part of our new little program is that 2 weekdays a week, Maggie and Caleb will not go to daycare... the plan is for me to stay home with them, but it could be either me or Casey who stays with them. I am really excited!!!
We had a lovely visit to PA to see all my siblings and their significant others :) It was difficult in some ways without my parents, especially since this is the first time since they moved to Cameroon that we were celebrating Christmas without them being here physically, but we got to talk to them on Skype all together and as He so often does, God gave us the grace we needed to not only get by, but to enjoy ourselves as well.
Maggie and Caleb are precious as always. Maggie is very into princesses, "fashion shows", drawing and coloring, taking care of her baby dolls, and of course loving Caleb. Those two are the best of friends (most of the time).
Caleb is talking a LOT. He still generally only says a few words at a time, but finally he is really easy to understand and he can say pretty much any word. Some of his favorite things to say: "Merry Christmas Lights" (he was very into Christmas lights, so naturally, when we told him to say Merry Christmas, he combined the two), "Go Nana's House", "Mustang!! Vrmmm vrmmm!!!" (for Casey's car, which he loves), "Sorry", "Mat-ee" for Maggie, and "Babby" for baby. He and Maggie are so sweet, we can hardly stand it! Casey and I are constantly stopping to look at each other in amazement over these two sweeties, especially in response to the adorable things they say :) We sure do love them!
