Christmas Pictures

So, I do not profess to be a professional, but here are some of the photos of the girls I tried taking last week. Elizabeth was completely uncooperative. Next time we do pictures, I'm probably going to go to an actual photographer, or get a faster camera. Katara was a ham for the camera and gave me lots of big smiles.

Here they are: my little poptarts...

Still Alive

To start off with, I apologize for the lack of pictures to accompany this entry. No excuse --I just didn't feel like doing it. Today, Elizabeth and Katara went to the doctor --the youngest had a checkup and they both got shots. Elizabeth just had the one flu shot, but Katara needed three immunizations. So, needless to say, I have been quite unpopular here at home today. I have to help hold Elizabeth down for her shots, and Katara was looking at me when she got hers. Sad day.
Katara is growing fast though. She weighs 12 lbs, 11 oz and is 23.5 inches long. She smiles a lot and is starting to coo. Tyrone thinks she's a bit of a momma's girl, but that's only because I'm the chuck wagon around here. :) Elizabeth is a daddy's girl, so it all evens out.
Lately, Elizabeth has had a growth spurt in the language department. She repeats a lot of what we say and now has a new batch of vocabulary with which she may gab my ear off each day. She says: pillow, piano, caper, paper, dink (drink), baper (diaper), no, pease (please), and moo. We need to work on her pronunciation with a few words --like "sit." It's not quite pronounced right and sounds more like a cuss word...

Blessing and Halloween

This last Sunday we had Katara's baby blessing in Church. --Guess you could say she is "official" now on the Church records. She looked very nice in her white blessing dress and bonnet complete with white crocheted booties from a lady in our ward and a crocheted blanket from her great-grandmother. Instead of blessing Katara in Elizabeth's dress, we actually got to use my own blessing dress from when I was a baby. Didn't know I still had one, but my mom brought it with her. It was a good experience for everyone overall, I think. The grandparents, uncles and some of the great-grandparents were able to come for the event.

On a much different subject, this year for Halloween we really aren't doing much. So far we've only had a big breakfast, bought some candy, and plan on watching some anime shows tonight. The girls --while they may look cute in costumes-- are still unable to trick-or-treat, so we're not going to over-do things here for them. Tyrone, however, was requested to dress up for his Dungeons and Dragons game. So, he (not entirely enthusiastic about putting on a masquerade) decided to go as the newly famous balloon boy. (He's carrying a box around him since the balloon boy was found in a box.) We are sooo funny...