Happy New Year!

     Happy 2015! Gigi came over and spent the night and celebrated with us on New Years Eve. None of us wanted to be out on the roads and would actually rather be home nowadays! Our friends who usually have a fantastic party are expecting their first baby and didn't throw the party this year. We're all growing up it seems...
     Jen, Mark, Lainey and Bobo came over for lunch on New Years Day. We had black eyed peas, tamales, spinach, cornbread and brownies.

 

It was a Tonka truck Christmas!

 

Gigi, Lainey and I went to see Into the Woods at the movie theater while Jeffrey played with Bobo, Jen and Mark. He says Marks name incredibly clear with a very strong "k." After the movie, we took Lainey home with us for a spend the night. We watched Frozen at night and again with Jeffrey and Brant in the morning!

 Jeffrey kept following Lainey to sit right up next to her. She might think one little brother is enough! We had fun together!

 

 We've been so fortunate to have such beautiful weather and have tried to play outside a lot! We took Lacey to the dog park Saturday, Jeffrey played on the playground for a while and we all had a very nice, long walk.

 Jeffrey playing at our neighborhood park. Riding his new trike from Aunt Jen and the fam.

 Cowboy boots and jammies! Getting dirty in the back yard.

I told Brant the other day how nice I think it is to have random toys all over the house. I love finding his little set ups in different spots. This one was in our bedroom while I was getting dressed.

 

     Jeffrey is talking so much and in big, long sentences that are not understandable at all. He does say a lot of words very clearly, but these strings of words are very hard for me to understand. Sometimes he watches out the window for trucks and he talks about the time we ran outside and gave cookies to the garbage man and he gave him a high five and waved. He talks a lot about the mail man too. He's OBSESSED with the movie Cars. I am going bonkers because all he wants to do is watch it on TV, which he calls "Tee." I let him watch 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the evening. The constant asking for it is driving me looney! "Cars, peeeese?" with the sign language for please too. Geez. What do I do??? It sounds funny, but is truly ridiculous! Overall, he's growing and learning and communicating and eating well, so bring on 2015!