Cornelius Chronicles

It has been a busy week of holiday parties, fun library activities, and cute baby pictures.  Enjoy! Xavier showing off his future astronaut awesomeness at the library.  :) You try getting a picture of four very excited children who are busy "building" (really eating) candy houses (they used ghram crackers instead of gingerbread) at the library.  They had lots of fun and we had frosting everywhere on everything!  :) Baby O just hanging out and looking cute.  He's getting more awake and alert every day. He's getting big too fast.   Breakfast fun at Rebekah's school holiday party.  Thanks for letting us come and share your yummy food, Rebekah!  Holiday Bingo fun at Loyd's school holiday party.  Thanks for winning twice, Loyd, so Maeve could eat one of your prize suckers.  :) Rebekah has been in practicing her roller skating skills non stop all week long.  She found my old roller skates in the back of my closet a...

This week we had lots of fun holiday activities to get us excited for the approach of Christmas.  Our kind neighbors gave us a fun gingerbread house kit that we put together for Family Home Evening this week.  The kids had fun decorating different sides of the house and Maeve learned the joy of eating straight frosting from the tube (note Maeve in the background doing just that). Xavier had his annual Christmas party at preschool and was super excited to meet Santa.  He asked for a camera this year.  I bet Santa will oblige his request.  :) Maeve was even brave enough to sit on Santa's lap all by herself and not cry as long as she got a present and a candy cane in the end.  She was excited to see Santa on our way to the party, but she seemed to have mixed feelings regarding some one on one time with the jolly old elf when the time came.  In the end she braved her fears and was rewarded with some fun ponies to play with and a yummy candy cane to...

We're being well reminded by Baby Owen of the basics of being a baby.  Those basics can be easily summed up by A-B-E = Always Be Eating.  When Mr. Owen isn't eating he tends to either be sleeping or crying because he wants to eat again.  This cute, chubby little monkey has worked hard to put on a pound and half in the 10 days since he left the hospital and seems to be working on a goal of reaching Sumo worthy weights before his first birthday.  Love this little chuck and enjoy watching his cheeks get more squishy and pinchable every day.  :) I love these pictures.  These two brothers are pulling the same faces at the same time.  I think they are going to be really great buddies. On Friday, while I was folding laundry in my bedroom, Xavier was sitting in my rocking chair in my room and was holding Baby Owen.  With my back turned toward the boys, all of a sudden I hear Xavier start to giggle like crazy.  I turn around to see what is so ...