Updates

We have had an incredibly busy, fun, emotional, cold and lovely Christmas break. We had Christmas in California on the 17th with my side of the family and had a lot of fun. On the 20th we loaded up the car and drove to Oregon to have Christmas with Brian's family. I'm bummed that I haven't updated more recently, but with how busy we were with the drive and such I just haven't had the time. Here are some updates--

Kinley is WALKING! She started about a month ago (1o months). We got excited by 1-4 steps, then it was 5-8 steps and then it was all of the time. She's definitely walking more than crawling and it has made it for a very interesting time around the house.

Kinley loves to play "where's kinley" during EVERY meal. She loves to eat and wants to eat whatever is on our plates. So, if we try to give her something different it's all over.

Kinley whines just about every morning until EMily gets up and then she starts to giggle when she sees her. They are the best of friends. Emily loves to get her to laugh.

Emily is so smart she takes my breath away. She remembers so many things, re-tells stories that happened six months ago. She knows her numbers, colors, shapes.

Emily LOVES to sing and dance. It's quite fascinating. It's like she bottled it up and now bursts every time a song comes on.

If Emily gets caught doing something she isn't supposed to be doing she just looks up at us and says, "I love you."

Christmas was a bit confusing this year because we had FOUR different celebrations. So, we didn't really play up the whole Santa bit, don't get me wrong, we did talk about Santa, but I figured talking with her about Jesus' birth was much more worthy to talk about. We've been talking a lot about the story of Jesus and today she put the BIGGEST smile on my face when she told me she knew where Jesus lived. I asked her where and she said, "Jesus lives in my heart." Melted me...