Happy Boy-

Hi! Isaac is a champ waver. Lately he has especially loved waving at Matt when we've video chatted with him in China. He gets so excited and points to Matt on the computer then waves a lot which is then sometimes followed with the excited pose like in the next picture. Isaac has loved Skyping so much with his Dad he even signed "more" for the first time from Matt showing him through the computer. Even though I've been trying to get him to do it for months.

Today we got the awesome news that Matt gets to come home a day early!

I know! Crazy exciting right?

We've definitely kept ourselves busy while Matt has been gone. A few days into it Owen commented, "We've been so busy with fun stuff I haven't even had time to think about my Dad." Which is good because the night before Matt left we were talking about Matt leaving at dinner and Owen kind of got teary and was wiping his eyes and said, "I'm just going to miss you so much while your gone Dad."

Isaac just learned how to blow kisses in the last couple of days. It's so cute with his chubby little hands still figuring out where his mouth is.

Mom! Isaac's Awake!

Ava is usually the first one awake at our house. As soon as she hears Isaac waking up she asks but mostly tells me as she runs off, "Mom, Isaac's awake, can I go play with him?" Then she jumps in his bed to snuggle and play with him. It's super cute and Isaac loves it.

Small Things-

Isaac has discovered our piano and he loves it!

The other day I was ironing Matts shirts while the kids were playing near me. Ava was getting all dressed up for a ball with her dolls and stuffed animals. While she was putting a dress on her doll she told me that she wasn't excited to go to the ball because it's kind of boring getting married. And there's going to be a wicked stepmother there. Luckily she worked it out so all the wicked stepmothers were going to a different ball and I told her that marriage is fun and only boring sometimes like when you are ironing.

My Grandma Nelson used to say that a healthy baby sleeps with their arms up.

A nice morning ride in a dump truck.

Owen is not a milk drinker. We are working on it but in the mean time I often fix him chocolate milk to get some calcium in him. Last week I fixed him some Ovaltine chocolate milk to go with his breakfast. When I offered it to him he informed me that he only drank TruMoo chocolate milk now since he'd seen a commercial about it and learned it was a "delicious snack with a healthy amount of sugar to make it a yummy treat" or something bogus like that. Since we are always looking for more healthy sugars in our diet & because Matt's in China we decided to get some to help us through the week.

We woke up to some snow! Ready to go shovel.

This morning Owen taught Isaac how to make his little guy walk on the tub wall. Isaac paid close attention and did it! Exciting stuff.

A-V-A

Ava has figured out how to write her whole name! On paper it's pretty cute and she gets the letters in the right order but it's a little trickier on her own cheek.

Falling into the Pit of Foam-

Isaac gets to do an awesome gymnastics class with the Up to 3 program. He loves falling into the giant foam pit. Just try not to listen to my voice- my efforts to sound less dorky made it only worse :).