Wrapping up Christmas

This past weekend we celebrated Christmas with the Steinkamp side. It was fun to get the kids together and see everybody. We decided to get a hotel at the last minute and I'm so glad we did. The kids had a great time swimming Sunday morning before we headed back to Grandma and Grandpa's. It was nice to do something a little different during these cold winter days. :)

Kinley and Edee in their new hats from Grandma and Grandpa.

Jude was quite the little drummer boy. He loved carrying his drum around beating away. He is such a cute little man. :)

Uncle Nick and Matt ventured out and took the boys down to the river. They wanted to try out their new binoculars. Not sure if they saw anything cool....but they were pretty excited about throwing rocks in the river and breaking the ice.

Riley had to leave on Monday after being with us since Christmas Day. Kinley was not ready for him to leave at all...there were plenty of tears when he left. They played together really well over the break. Matt walked in to check on them one night and this is what he found. Kinley looked up at Matt and said, "we're friends." Too cute.

Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Eve we celebrated with Grandma and Grandpa Nafziger. Kinley loved opening presents and helping everyone else with theirs. She was a big helper putting all of the paper in the trash too! This morning we came downstairs and Santa hadn't missed our house! Kinley got a play kitchen and Riley got a Wii game. Tonight we headed across the street to Great Grandma Chambers house for soup. So far we had a great Christmas!!

Ornaments

I'm a little late with this post, but I wanted to still get the kids ornaments for 2010 documented. :) Riley chose an ornament from the movie Despicable Me and Kinley chose a cute dancing Snoopy. It is so fun getting to see the kids pick out their ornaments each year. My parents did this for my brother and I, we have an ornament for every year since we were born. I now still get myself an ornament each year (Matt joins in on the fun some years too)! I love looking back at all my old ornaments....I hope the kids do too someday. :)

Friday Night

We had a nice, relaxing Friday night. We made S'mores and watched Christmas shows. I love this time of year! :)

Snow & Santa :-)

Kinley had her first official chance to play in the snow this weekend and she loved it! Daddy and Kinley built a snowman on the back deck and she didn't want to stop. She looked so cute all bundled up in her snow suit. I didn't know how long she would stay out there considering she couldn't really move much. It didn't seem to bother her though. :) Saturday afternoon we went to the Minier Christmas Parade to get some candy and see Santa. Kinley liked seeing Santa and running after all the candy. It was such a pretty parade..it was snowing the whole time and it was a fairly warm day. So nice to have snow for the Christmas parade! :)

Mickey's Rockin' Road Show!

We took Kinley to Mickey's Rockin' Road Show at the Peoria Civic Center this weekend. We met Audrey, Joe, and Lindsey there. Kinley and Audrey loved it. They were dancin' in the isle! :) Kinley kept asking "where did Goofy go." Apparently Goofy is now one of her favorites. We went to Texas Roadhouse after the show. Yum! We had to wait an hour for a table. The girls were so good during the show and all during dinner. What a fun night! :)

No More Diapers!

Kinley has been through potty training boot camp this past week! :) We did the Three Day Potty Training method recommended by a friend Sunday through Tuesday and she did great! Sunday was pretty brutal....learning bladder control wasn't so fun! By Monday night she was telling me when she had to go and her underwear were barely wet by the time we made it to the potty. She still is just a little wet once she tells us, but I'm just happy she's getting it! :) We threw away all the diapers because now she's a big girl! Our last diaper was last Sunday morning. :) That makes me so happy financially......but so sad my baby is already out of diapers. She was just born yesterday!!

Throwing away her diapers!

Showing off her Wonder Pets undies.

Because she did so good on the potty on Monday she got her favorite food with dinner, black olives. She's definitely her mother and fathers' daughter. :)