Makenna's First Solid Food

Makenna had her first solid food this week! She makes such a mess! She is just like Maddie and can't quite figure out that tongue. Most of the food gets pushed out by her tongue while she is trying so hard to get it in. It's pretty funny. She's cute even with food all over her!

Baby Dolls!

Since we have a house full of girls, naturally we have a lot of baby dolls. Here are all three of them with one of their favorite dolls. It just makes me laugh that we caught all three of them with dolls at the same time!

Makenna's Learning New Things!

First of all, I just have to say that Makenna is the best baby every!! She is so mellow and so sweet. She loves to lay down and play with her toys but her favorite thing is to sit in her bouncy seat and kick her legs so that she bounces up and down. It is so funny!! She never whines or cries and she is just so happy all of the time! Here she is learning how to hold her head up, playing with one of her favorite toys and just being cute!

Christmas Day 2011!

This year for Christmas was a little different because we had to wait until 8:30 am for daddy to come home from work. So Grandma Bock spent the night and helped keep the girls upstairs so they wouldn't see the presents until daddy got home. They were excited to see the presents but they were even MORE excited to see the cookies that Santa had eaten. (It was so funny to watch their faces when they saw the cookies!) We had a great time opening presents and the girls loved everything they got. But the highlight of the day was when Maddie opened her final gift. For our family, the final gift is a special one that we think you will love the most. We got Maddie a little music player that you can download songs on and listen to.....like a cool MP3 player for kids. I had already downloaded her favorite songs on it and then put it back in the package so she was able to listen to it right away. We videotaped it and she was so excited that she just stared at it and started singing. We panned the video camera over to Emma to open her cool gift of the Leappad Explorer tablet (so cool by the way!) and stayed there for a few minutes while she opened it. Then, we panned back over to Maddie who was STILL staring at it and singing in her own little world. So funny! We kept the camera on her for a good couple of minutes and listened to her singing without ever realizing that we were all staring at her. It was SOOOOO cute! Later we went over to Grandma Jones's to spend some time with the family and then had Christmas dinner back at our house with both Grandma's (while Jacob was sleeping because he had to work later!). Overall, it was a great day and the girls had a lot of fun!

Christmas Eve!

Every year for Christmas Eve we go to MaryBeth and Nathan's house for a YUMMY dinner of brisket and cinnamon rolls. (One of my favorite Christmas treats!!) Then, we come home and dad reads the girls Luke 2 and "The Night Before Christmas" in their new Christmas pajamas! This year was the first year that we also made cookies to leave out for Santa. Fun, fun, fun!

Christmas Activities!

We really enjoyed the Christmas season this year. It was very hectic for us, and we didn't have time to do everything we wanted, but we did do some fun things together! Here are a few of them:
1. Christmas at Disneyland
2. Festival of Lights at the Mission Inn
3. Checking out the Christmas lights in Chino (no pics of that one!)
4. Making Christmas cookies
5. Making gingerbread houses

Christmas Pictures!

It wouldn't be Christmas if I didn't make everyone get in front of the tree for some pictures. These are always some of my favorite pictures from the year.