Christmas 2012

We can call 2012 the year of the four Christmas's. We celebrated Christmas with my family the week before on the 15th. We celebrated with James mom and sister on Christmas eve. We celebrated on Christmas day with just my hubby and kids, and we celebrated with James dad on new years weekend lol.

We let the kids have a little fun with believing in Santa this year and tony was super excited to wake up to a life size version of spiderman. The blow up spiderman was so big Tony could sit on his lap.

The kids were very excited with all of their presents it was a joy to see happiness on their faces:)

Baker family pics 12/9/12

It is always a riot when trying to take family pictures it always appears seem less but in reality it's super stressful in every way.

When we arrived there was an hour delay which landed us in the middle of meal time for Ava and Mia just did not want to smile at all.

The results were amazing:)

Visit to Mia's School 12/13/12

I had received a message from Mias teacher that book was due for book trade they were doing in classroom. I quickly threw on my clothes and got baby up and out in fear I had missed it and Mia would not be able to participate. I arrive to the school in the middle of nap time only to find out the book exchange was not until the following week lol:)

We ended up having a blast between Ava getting to have nap time with her sister and me getting to read book to her classmates.

Ava's first weeks

Well Ava is getting more beautiful day after day. Her features are so petite and defined and she is settling well into her routine. She sleeps a great deal where I have to wake her to eat. She sleeps four to five hours straight at night but it takes her till 11:30pm or midnight to go to sleep when she has her alert time in the evening.

She rarely cries only when wet, gassy, or tired. I feed her in advance of the cries so she does not have to worry about that.

When she is awake she wants to be in your arms which worries me when she goes back to work:( I don't want her to be tormented at daycare.

Ava meets her siblings

Ava's ride home 11/21/12 thanksgiving morning was filled with sunshine. Baby was resting peacefully in her car seat while mommy struggled to get her legs in the car, still super swollen.

The kids were super excited to meet their baby sister they made special ornaments for her to put on the tree.

Tony had a special song picked out for her rocking her gently in his arms it was so precious.