Here's a picture of all 5 generations of women on my mom's side- pretty amazing! My great-gran, my grandma, my mom, me and Teagan. My poor great-gran was so tired at this point, but this is the only pic I could find of all of us!
Christmas was great this year with the kids at such fun ages. We did lots of crafts/ornament making/baking and wrapping (and re-wrapping after Bode got his hands on them!) We celebrated as a family a few days early and then headed up to Trent's parents house for the week. 
Christmas Eve we all went to church and then headed over to Nana Barb's house for a "Happy Birthday Jesus" party! The party started with a re-enactment of the Christmas story and Jesus' birth. Gavin played Joseph and was excited to dress the part until he looked in the mirror and decided that his long robe made him look more like Mary, ha. Teagan was an angel and got to carry in the big star and lead everyone in to the 'manger'. She took her part very seriously but got her bible stories a little mixed up when she slammed the star down on the manger and yelled,"Ramses, let my people go!" (we had just watched 'The Prince of Egypt") 
We spent alot of time playing out in the snow and sledding down the big hill at Nana and Pacaw's too!
Bode is growing up so fast and is 10 1/2 months old now. He is crawling everywhere and pulling up and pushing anything he can across the room. He loves to play in Gavin and Teagan's rooms and check out all of their 'big kid' stuff. He pulls up to Gavin's lego table all the time and sweeps his hand around to see if he can grab any little pieces.... I've pulled a few lego heads and other things out of his mouth lately, he's fast! 
Here he is checking on what sister is up to. She loves to play mommy and is constantly telling him what to do (or not do!) She is always asking to feed him and is sad that he doesn't like to take a bottle (we're working on this!) 
Teagan is also growing up fast lately! She's been in 'big girl pants' for a while now and is doing great! She's very independent and is always asking me to leave the bathroom if I'm trying to help her and gets offended when I try to put a pull up on her at night, ha. Its so nice not to have two kids in diapers, but its sad at the same time to see her getting so big! 
She loves all things princess, tinkerbell and dora/diego right now, and also dressing up 'fancy'.
At the beginning of the year I put her on the waitlist for the 2 year old preschool class after she was crushed that Gav was going to school and not her. She was pretty far down on the list and I forgot that we had put her on it until the school called in Jan. and said they had an opening. So Teag is officially a preschooler as of Feb. 3rd and loving every minute! She gets to go one day a week for two hours and loves, loves, loves her class. Here's Gav giving her some pointers before her first day.
So one day a week for two hours or so, this guy gets me all to himself! I love having a little alone time with him and I'm sure he appreciates the quiet playtime too! He is such a sweet boy, and a snuggler too! He's been having a hard time with his teeth lately and just finally broke his FIRST tooth through at 10 1/2 months! Poor guy... he eats pretty much all table food but has nothing to chew it with!
Gav goes to preschool 3 days/week and loves his class too! He's 5 1/2 now and due to start kindergarten in the fall. I found a really neat homeschool co-op that I think we're going to try called Homelink and I'm excited to learn more about it. I'm a little nervous about taking on homeschooling but I think it will be fun!
My little buddy!
Sweet, sweet girl!
Happy guy!
