Dickens on the Strand

When we were living in Dallas, one of our family holiday traditions was to drive to see the 12 Days of Christmas light display along a block of 12 houses in Lake Highlands.  It's something we always enjoyed and once we moved here we realized we'd have to replace that tradition with something new.  Our replacement tradition has been found!  

Last weekend we went to the annual Dickens on the Strand event in Galveston.  It was great.  So many people in period costumes, lots of great music, food, drink, little shops set up expescially for the event.  It was great!  Here are some pictures from our day there.

Catching Up

Well, I've neglected to post about anything since Halloween so here's everything since then in pictures.

Decorating the exterior of our house for the holidays.

Wesley and Daddy inspecting Mommy's work. :)

Christmas party with our Mommy's Group. The kids are getting SO big! From far away we have Vin, Sienna, Finley, Isaiah, Zen (new to the group), Liam, and Wesley's head.

Liam, Wesley & Zen (left to right)

Liam, Wesley & Trevor (left to right). We were trying to get a group picture of all the kiddos but as you can imagine it didn't quite work out.

Liam and Wesley

Wesley with Santa. We went back to North Park Mall again this year but unlike last year Wesley was a little unhappy to see Santa.

Our most recent saga has been that Wesley has learned how to climb and has used that knowledge (get this) to climb out of his crib! The night before we left town for the Christmas holiday he climbed out so we put up the play yard, which is about 6" deeper, and he proceeded to climb right out of that as well. That night I wound up sleeping on the floor next to his bed and the first hour and a half I played Policewoman Mommy and kept him in his crib until he finally went to sleep.

Here was our attempt to find a temporary solution but he just climbed over the side and we heard him jiggling the door knob to his room. Ugh!

Christmas Day at Gram & Poppy's - Wesley just got a new rocking horse. :)

Abby posing in front of the Christmas Tree.

New shoes! Yeay!

A puzzle board. (Notice Wesley is wearing a pair of his new shoes.)

A new train!

The train is so cute. It's a block train so Wesley can take it apart and put it back together in a different order.

Opening his stocking. He's fascinated with flashlights so Gram made sure he got his own in his stocking. So goofy!

Gram always gives an orange in our stockings and Wesley was convinced it was a "ball." He had so much fun throwing it around. Cutie Boy!

Merry Christmas Everyone & Happy New Year!