December was a very busy month with plenty of visitors and Christmas. Nathan's mom came to visit early in the month and we went to Disney, Sanibel Island, and to the base to see Nathan's airplane. My parents and my brother came to visit a few days after she left and stayed for Christmas. We were thankful to have family visit us over the holiday season, and we are looking forward to going back to North Dakota next year for Christmas.
Jake and Addison are keeping us busy. I think we are still adjusting to having two kids in the house. Someone always wants or needs something :) Addison is looking forward to going back to preschool this week, and Jake is growing like a weed. He will be 12 weeks old on January 5th. Addison is still being a great big sister. She loves to try and make him smile and laugh.
We also bought a house in December. It should be finished and we should be moved in by mid May as long as everything goes smoothly. We did not want to take on another home, but we are unhappy with our rental house and the property manager, so we knew that we would eventually move. We got a pretty good deal on a very nice house in a great neighborhood. It may become another rental property for us when we move from Florida, but we are thinking that maybe we will move back to Florida and back into the home when Nate retires from the Air Force in 9 years. We will see what the future holds.
Nate also found out that he will be deploying in May. That is something we are definitely not looking forward to. I know Addison is going to take it especially hard. She doesn't even want him to leave for work during the week, so having him gone for 5 months will be difficult. However, I know that we will make it through just like we did the last deployments.
Here are some pictures from December.
Papa and Jake
Big smile
Playing with uncle Matt
Styling Nana's hair
Making a gingerbread house with uncle Matt
Papa and Jake
Santa surprised her with all the fairies
Santa brought her a vanity
Sprinkling the reindeer food in the front yard on Christmas Eve
Addison and uncle Matt
Nana, Papa, Jake, Addison, and Matt
Opening gifts
Visiting the princesses and fairies again
She finally rode Dumbo
Cinderella's castle light up for Christmas
At Magic Kingdom with Nana
Meeting Santa at Downtown Disney
Riding rides in Whoville
Getting ready for the Grinch show at Islands of Adventure
Opening gifts with Granny Arlis
Love the facial expressions..."What is this thing exactly??"
"Hmm, really..is this all I got?"
Mickey's Christmas Parade
Jake met Mickey and Minnie for the first time.
Putting make-up on Granny
Nate took his mom to see his plane.
Looking for shells with Granny Arlis on Sanibel Island.
Posing with their Tshirts.
Addison insisted on posing with every Christmas present before we put it under the tree.
Baby Jake loves to smile.
Another present....
Putting on the star
Hanging the first Christmas ornament
Addison with Woody (made from Legos) at the Lego store.
My aunt Debbie, and my cousins Stacey, her son, Brendan, and Rosie came to Florida for a visit.
Nathan took his aunt Rhoda to see the Gulfstream at MacDill. She came to visit from Arizona. We hadn't seen her for quite awhile, so it was very nice to have her visit.
Jake was baptized on January 23rd at Apostle's Lutheran Church.
Jake is getting so big! He is starting to really fill out, and he is getting A LOT of baby rolls!
He is a very happy baby. He LOVES to smile and laugh. Unfortunately, he doesn't love to sleep through the night yet! :( He is also extremely ticklish and will laugh uncontrollably when you touch his belly or neck.
Pretty blue eyes...we think he is going to keep them. Addison started out with blue, but then they changed to brown.
We tried to feed him rice cereal around 12 weeks, because he was so hungry all the time. We also thought it would help him sleep longer at night, but it didn't work.
