The Adventures of: March 2012

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Helaina updates

Helaina got her first tooth on New Year's. Shortly before nine months she started with an army crawl and about one and a half months later she has mastered the crawl. She is quite speedy with the crawling and is constantly making a bee-line for the cat water bowl. She is also pulling up to a stand and starting to cruise along the furniture. Much to Finn's dismay, she prefers Finn's toys over her own and she has earned the nickname Hurricane Helaina as she frequently plows through the middle of his toys. Her favorite pastime is tubby time. I think that is when we get the most smiles and giggles from her. She loves splashing and has no fear in getting her face wet. We also see her biggest tantrums when trying to get her out of the tubby.

New Year 2012

We rang in the New Year with a trip to visit family in South Dakota to visit family. Finn and Helaina especially loved time with their cousins and meeting new baby Beau.
Here are a few pics from the trip.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Christmas 2011

We enjoyed a quiet Christmas at home this year.
Christmas morning starting early!

Finn spies Santa's tracks.

Helaina did a great job tearing paper...we just had to make sure it didn't go in her mouth after.

Santa came through and brought Finn the requested combine.

Helaina and Laura

Grandma Patty came for a Christmas visit.

Our first Christmas as a family of four.

Disneyland - December 2011

I have once again been negligent of updating the blog and am planning a mass update now...we will start back in December 2011. We had our first big trip as a family of four to Anaheim,CA. I had a conference that I attended there, which was a good excuse to give Finn and Helaina their first exposure to the magic of Disney! We had a great time and all in all had two really great travelers with us. We spend 3 days at the two Disney Parks and really enjoyed it. It was fun to see everything all decked out with Christmas decorations, especially at night.