Sunday, 20 December 2009

Blog Neglect!

A long long overdue update. The story of why we have been so out of it is at the end of the pictures.
Innkeeper #3 grooving in the hay!


She's a natural!

Oliver being very serious about his stage debut!

Katya with Innkeeper 1 and 2


Oliver with the angels.


Katya getting a present from Santa! She had her face painted and when they asked what she wanted to be she said "a pink leopard of course".


Can you see the little boy excitement on his sweet face?


Waiting in anticipation for the arrival of the man...



I think pictures says it all, a little too much chocolate!



Decorating fairy cakes with Daddy and Nanny!
Christmas Shopping with Noddy and Makka Pakka


All bundled up, Oliver is sporting his mega black eye!



We have had a pretty eventful last two months. We have made 5 trips to the emergency room at the children's hospital with Oliver! He has been diagnosed with asthma and 4 of those trips were for oxygen and nebeulizer treatments. Twice they hospitalized him for 3 days. The extra trip was to get his face glued together after he ran straight into the edge of the coffee table. The brits say, "he's been in the wars". It seems we finally have treatment on a daily basis that is helping and he hasn't been in the hospital for almost 3 weeks. We are aiming for a hospital free Christmas. I guess this is my explanation for being sparse on the updates.

The kids have, amidst the insanity, been to see Santa and starred in their nursery school nativity play as a Shepherd and Innkeeper #3. You might not have known, but apparently there were 3 innkeepers and they all wore pink outfits, also the boy shepherds seem to be pretty in purple and pink! Hope the pictures make you as happy as me. Oliver is ENAMOURED with Christmas. He loves the decorations, Santa Claus, the Nativities, you name it he is so happy with it. I think being 2 at Christmas is amazing I wish I could remember it!

2 comments:

Gramma Marty said...

Oh so oh so oh so SWEET!!! I love England and their nativity pageants galore. I love and miss my British babies. MERRY CHIRSTMAS!!!

Heather Melo said...

Thank you for posting this update! So cute in all the pictures! We arrived at Mom and Dad's yesterday, and this morning after waking up and going to the family room to play, Alicey looked up at me and asked why Katya wasn't here... and the night before we left Utah Alicey prayed for both Katya and Oliver in her prayer before bed. She does love her cousins so! And we all love you! Have a wonderful Christmas!!!!