Happy Birthday, B!!

Blythe turned 3 on December 12th and she had decided many months ago she was going to have a snake birthday. I don't know where this idea came from cause I'm not much of a snake person, so it's not like we talk about or look at snakes. But a snake birthday is what she wanted so a snake birthday is what she got. Here is my attempt at a snake cake...

After Joe's party, we decided to just have a low key dinner at home with the grandparents. It was nice and laid back, much like us. Here's the birthday girl enjoying her snake cake.

This is Gramma K. She's my 98 year old grandmother. The birthday hat was a bit too big for Blythe, but fit her perfectly!

One of Blythe's presents was this digital camera. The rest of these pictures are ones she took.

The inverse of the one above...

Some of the party goers, Paw, Ben, and Grammie. She kept telling us all to get together and love each other. I'm guessing this was a product of those instructions!

Papa Tim. I will admit I had a hard time choosing one of Papa Tim. She took some great ones!

Mama J posing for the photographer.

This is what a lot of them look like. She has trouble being still when she takes a picture, but I thought this was funny.

Happy Birthday, Blythe! You are such a sweet and loving girl. We love you so much!!

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year all. I'm gonna try and be really good this week and catch up on the major happenings around the Johnson house. I don't really know what happened in November, so I'm just going to skip to December.

First up, Joe's First Birthday! Joe turned one on December 23rd, but we had his party on the 11th. I really had a hard time finding enough days in the month for all the birthdays in our family so in all future years I think we'll be having just one big party.

It ended up being a beautiful day so most of the party played outside. Here's the birthday boy enjoying the nice weather.

Joe started walking pretty early so he has now moved on to climbing. This is a little stool Mama J gave him to climb on.
Opening up some presents...
Happy Birthday, Joe Joe!!
Joe is such a fun addition to our family. He is pretty much the complete opposite of Blythe which makes life oh so much more interesting :) We love you, Joe, Happy Birthday!

Thanks again to the Sears!! I found myself without a camera that worked when it was time to cut the cake so these are all from their collection!

Happy Halloween!!

The one semi-happy picture I could get with both of them in it.

Then the lion fell over backwards (yes, I took pictures instead of helping him up)

The giant lion head made it so that he couldn't get up, which made him mad.

"Get this off my head, or I will be forced to hurt you."

So on to the giraffe. Who was super excited to discover she had a tail.

The rest don't really require explanation.

It's a little girl in a giraffe costume.

What more could you ask for?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

The Good Stuff

Blythe spent the night with Lainee and Paw last night, and Joe missed her terribly. This morning he crawled into her room, over to her bed and started pulling on her covers. He was very upset when he couldn't find her. Around noon, Joe and I met my parents in Lewisville to get Blythe back. The minute she got in the car Joe started talking to her and screaming with joy. During one of the first pauses in his welcome back racket Blythe said to him, "I love you too, Joe."

I'm not ashamed to admit, I teared up a little bit.

Blythe Video

The Macgruber of Hair

Just got this email from Paw (AKA: my dad "The Chief") entitled "All's Well." Blythe is spending the night with them and apparently didn't want to wash her hair. Enter the chip clip.

Firsts

We've had a couple firsts over the last week...

Blythe got her first haircut. She didn't really appreciate it, as you can see...

Here's the finished product.

Here's Blythe doing Joe's hair for him.

Sometimes that requires putting him in a headlock...

And last, but certainly not least... Joe cut his first tooth. I don't think you can really see it, but his bottom right tooth popped through on the 2nd!