Its been a busy 2 weeks!
My WHOLE family flew here on Dec 23rd. Matt, the boys and I met them in Seattle. We did some shopping and had lunch at the Space Needle. When we go home, we celebrated Mia's birthday with a pinata and some cake. Christmas Eve, we decorated our tree and went to a Christmas Eve church service. Christmas was presents, cookies and playing the Wii. Its been so long since Ryen has been home, it was just so nice to be a complete family.
The boys have entered the "stranger danger" phase. I can't just hand them over to anyone now. And since they had not seen my family in a while, it took a little while to warm up. But, for some reason, when Alex was introduced to Ryen, it was love at 1st sight. The entire week, that little boy was entranced by his uncle. Certainly, he doesn't know that he looks just like Ryen did as a baby or that he is named after him. But, for whatever reason, Alex would LIGHT up whenever he saw him. And not to embarrass him or anything but Ryen seemed pretty smitten with the boys as well. He helped feed them, held them even when they were fussy, helped get them in and out of car seats...he even came to their Dr. appt with us. He completely shocked me and we miss him so much.
Of course, the boys just loved having everyone around. Mia is such great entertainment and loves to assist in everything. Its funny to think: the age difference seems big now but in 10 years, when she is 15 and they are 10, its not going to seem so big.
Nani and Popi brought some great gifts for the boys. We had a fun time opening presents, although I think next year might even be more entertaining.
The last few days of their visit, we drove up to Vancouver for some skiing. The city was a lot of fun and the weather held out, we had a good time.
Some huge milestones we accomplished the past 2 weeks: both boys are rolling from back to front. We started 2 new veggies: zucchini and avocado, yellow and acorn squash coming next. Alex has started teething. Poor little guy. But, we are getting though and he is such a trooper. Why does teething have to be painful? And Evan is starting to "scoot". He looks like an inch worm, so cute. Alex is close behind. Its not really fair, he weighs more!
Its always so painful to say good-bye. Especially to Ryen, it will be another 6 months until we can see him in person. I am so thankful for such a loving family.
There were so many pictures, I put them in a slide show, it would take a week to post all the pics individually:
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