Losing Teeth...in Missurah...

I say Missurah because of this great "hillbilly" shot of Tatum. She lost her first upper tooth this week and we're still getting used to her little gappy smile. See the pictures below to see that she's still as cute as ever, but I must have caught her at a weird angle with this shot.
Tatum proudly holding her tooth.








A shot of the sisters from this week...

And, Anthony sitting in the swing. He's 6 weeks old today! It's gone by fast!

By tonight...I meant tonight...

Greta turned 5! Yes, 5, on January 7. These were the pictures I wanted to post earlier, but unfortunately, my computer died on me because I left my power cord at work.

As part of her birthday, she celebrated with her Awana classmates with a skating party. One of her classmates, Shawn, has taken a liking to Greta and I caught them holding hands around the skating rink. Romance blooms at a young age around here!


Shawn is the same little guy who earlier last year bought Greta a doll with around 65 Awana bucks from the Awana store! This is when we knew he was a bit smitten with our daughter.




For Greta's birthday, she wanted to get her ears pieced so we took her to the mall and did the deed. She chose a lovely set of gold ball earrings to wear for the next few months. She loves the fact that they are REAL gold! We very proud of our little girl. She did great - even though they had to do each ear separately. She had some tears but took it like a big girl! - We think the two lollipops she received afterwards helped a bit!



What blog would be complete without some shots of the little guy. I will try to be more punctual on my posting for the two of you still viewing this blog!

Happy New Year! + a day or two!

It's been a busy time! Sorry to those of you still with us for the large delay. I'm testing you...seeing if you really care or not! I'll get some pictures posted tonight!

Christmas Pics Part 3

Christmas pajamas and robes were also a popular gift for Christmas morning. In all, "it was the best Christmas ever" according to Tatum and Greta quickly agrees! We hope that you have enjoyed seeing a glimpse of our little Christmas. We hope and pray that your Christmas was full of friends, family and lots of love.






Here's Christy holding her favorite gift of the year! Glen Beck's An Inconvenient Book is something that she specifically asked for and I was happy to grant her this little wish. For those that may not know, Glen is a radio talk show host and wrote this book to provide real solutions to the world's biggest problems. So far, Christy thinks that it has been really funny!



Here's little Anthony in on of his favorite gifts - A swing from Grandpa and Grandma Robertson. He's used this swing quite a bit the last two days.

Again, Merry Christmas to you and yours! Have a Happy New Year!

Christmas Pics Part 2

One of the best pictures from yesterday... Greta with her American Girl doll. Driving home from Christy's parents on Christmas Eve, Greta mentioned how she probably wouldn't get an American Girl for Christmas from Santa because they cost way too much money. She hoped she would get one, but she really didn't think that she would. Santa came through for the girl and she was thrilled as you can see!




Here is Greta again with her doll out of the box. The doll has been named Elizabeth for now - We'll see if that name sticks or if it's going to change...







Our good friends Ben & Robin Blair had these lovely paintings of the girl's names created on the beaches of California. The girls love this long-distance gift and are very proud of their paintings, showing them off to everyone who comes by the house...





Another favorite gift of the girls - the long-awaited Moon Sand. They advertised this stuff like crazy on Saturday morning cartoons so our girls have been begging for Moon Sand for about 18 months now. Moon Sand is basically sandy Play Dough that won't dry out.




Here Greta explains to me all the wonderful features of my alarm clock. You can hook up an MP3 player to it, listen to the radio and it even comes with nature sounds that you can listen to. Greta picked this alarm clock out for me and was very proud of it.

Christmas Pics

Anthony in his stocking that he was given by the nurses at St. John's Hospital at his birth. One of our nurses painted his name on the stocking.







Anthony, Tatum and Greta in front of our Christmas tree in their Christmas outfits. Tonight, we go to Christy's parents to celebrate Christmas. Tomorrow, we have Christmas at our house and go to my parent's house in the afternoon to celebrate one more time! The girls are excited that Christmas is here as you can tell.




Another picture of Anthony, Tatum and Greta. We hope you can see his little Christmas outfit. He looked so cute in it on Sunday at church. Christy loves getting to dress her little man up!





A full shot of the stocking for you. We would have loved to have been able to hang it up, but we weren't quite ready to take that risk with a 3 week old!

Bath Time

Just some bath shots for you from this week!


He's coming to terms with the fact that he has to take a bath on a fairly regular basis. He's even enjoying it once he gets in the warm water. Hope everyone is doing fine and ready for Christmas. We'll get some Christmas pictures uploaded before Christmas on Tuesday!