Well, I made it through the Trail of Lights without going into labor! Jo had a wonderful time! Another meal of gingerbread cookies for dinner as we looked at the lights. Mother of the Year award? 🙂 And using the pre-paid parking we were in and out of there in an hour. Very successful night!

          As my due date approaches and many days are cold and wet, we have been spending a lot of time at home. We made toilet paper roll bird feeders and, though it was a bit messy, it was a lot of fun. And we keep getting to watch all of […]

To introduce the idea of decorating a tree with ornaments to Jo, I made a felt tree with felt ornaments that she could decorate over and over and over again. She has loved it so far.   This weekend we started pulling out decorations before heading to Elgin to pick out our tree. Jo liked […]

  I loved these cookies. So I remember for next year, I used this recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/gingerbread-cookies-101-recipe/index.html. I don’t like icing that uses eggs so I used this recipe for the icing: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/gingerbread-cookie-frosting/  

The Austin Children’s Museum moved into a much better space that is much more convenient for us. We went to the Member Preview and are very excited about spend a lot of time there in the future.

Well, I guess we will need to buy him clothes… eventually. We love having hoards of cousins! 🙂

Jo usually requests that Mommy or Daddy sing a song to her. Rocket song means the TMBG song about the solar system. Apple tree song is the Johnny Appleseed song. Baby song is Rockabye Baby. Rainbow song is TMBG’s Roy G. Biv. But lately Jo has started singing them herself and it makes me so […]

Add Florida to the list of states Jo loves. Today we found Cape Canaveral on the map and watched the latest Mars robot launch.