Christmas Time 2012

Pre-Christmas Family Pictures

Meeting Santa

 Maylee told him she wanted a pink bike...

Christmas Cruise to the North Pole

 

Reading the names of good boys and girls...

 

 
 

Christmas Eve
Papa and his girls...

Take One...

Take Two...

Take Three...

Headed to church...

Great-Grandma Doris ("Big Ammie") and Kaleah

 

 

Getting milk and cookies ready for Santa...

Christmas Morning
Kaleah's gift to us was sleeping from midnight to 9am!

 Luckily, I finished Kaleah's stocking in time for Santa...

 

Maylee's Santa gift...a new helmet and bike!

 Kaleah's Santa gift...a new toy and activity mat!

 Ammie and Papa gave Maylee new snow boots, "rock star" shirt, and bendable microphone.

I love this pictures of Maylee rocking out with her new Christmas presents...

Christmas Day out at Aunt Connie's
Usually about 60 relatives are out at Connies, but this year we only had about 40.  We still had a great time!

 Big Ammie made Maylee a baby doll blanket...

 Maylee and Lily help open Kaleah's presents...

 

Dec. 26th

The girls visited their Great-Great-Great Aunt Ruth and Uncle Don, 

then we traveled down to see Kevin's side of the family in Kamiah.

Kaleah's first trip to Nana Jo and Papa Dean's house...

 Aunt Tabitha with very tired Kaleah...

Christmas in Kamiah

Uncle Craig and Kaleah...

 Great-Grandma Linda and Kaleah...

 Excited about Dublo blocks...

 Helping Kaleah open her present that Maylee picked out for her...

 Kevin's Uncle Mark and Aunt Lorraine with the girls...

Roach girls...

Our Christmas Goofball...

 Maylee is pretending to be Rapunzel...

Maylee is very interested in Nana Jo's village...

Great-Grandma Linda and the girls...

Great-Grandma Helen and the girls...

Great-Grandpa Emmett and Kaleah...

Great-Grandpa Emmett and the girls...

Christmas with More Relatives in Moscow

Uncle Kevin, Aunt Shelly, Aunt Jan, Uncle Pat, Derek and Connor arrived in Moscow 

between Christmas and New Years.

Great-Aunt Jan and the girls...

Grandma Doris and her daughters (Jan, Connie, Karen, and Julie)...

 Grandma Doris with her brother Butch and sister Betty...

Kaleah's Extra Appointments

Kaleah had to have her tongue clipped when she was a day old in the hospital because she could not extend it past her lips.  I was still having latch difficulties that I did not experience with Maylee.  I set up an appointment with the hospital's lactation consultant.  She discovered that Kaleah's tongue muscle was tight and refered us to physical theraphy for her tongue.  I didn't know something like that existed!  So we took her to physical therapy too.  I am happy to say her tongue works great now!

Due to Kaleah being breech (even though it was only for one week and she was not fully breech) it is common procedure for our pediatrician to using imaging to check hips...so he put in an order.  One day we got home to find a message on our answering machine that Kaleah will need an MRI for her hips and they left us the day and time of the appointment.  I was concerned that my little one would have to be in an MRI machine at such a young age.  An hour before that appointment, a nurse at the imagining center said that they didn't notice that she is not 30 days old so they rescheduled for Dec. 21st.  When that day rolled around, we took her in and learned that the new nurse also should have said it was an ultrasound on her hips, not an MRI.  I was a little nervous when the doctor came in to check again a second time with the technician...but relieved when he said everything is great.

Kaleah is 1 Month Old!

  

Kaleah 3 Weeks Old!

I took these pictures for her birth announcements and for fun...

Kaleah in Maylee's baby doll bed...

Hat made by the girls' babysitter, Carol...

 

 

Potlatch Winter Festival

Papa's auto parts store is located on the parade route and across from the lighted city park where the firework show is.  It has become an annual tradition for his employees and our family and friends to celebrate  at his store where we can enjoy the parade and fireworks from inside a warm building.  The party seems to get bigger every year.  Maylee had a blast with all her little cousins!  This was also the first "family gathering" for Kaleah...she was the star that everyone couldn't wait to see.

The upstairs of the store party with a big window to watch the parade and fireworks...

Meeting Great-Grandma Doris (or, as Maylee calls her "Big Ammie") for the first time...

 Meeting Great-Great Uncle Lloyd...

 Meeting Great-Great Uncle Butch and third cousin Marcus...

 

Parade Time

Maylee and Cousin Lily

 Ethan, Maylee, Lily, and Kole

 

 Aunt Connie helped pass out goodies because she walked in the parade for Gritman Medical Center

Fireworks

 Twin cousins Charlie and Tessa are beside Maylee...

Playing with Cousins at the Party

More Time with Cousin Natalie the next day...

Cousins Emma and Sarah holding Kaleah...

Christmas Tree Hunting 2012

Snow has been delayed this year so we were able to drive on a road that is normally one that we snowmobile on and gated at the bottom.  Maylee dressed herself for the occasion...she was ready for "tree hunting."  Kaleah and I waited in the truck while Kevin and Maylee tracked down the perfect tree.  Then they returned to the truck for the saw and our approval.