Toothless!!!

BIG day for Harrison today!  He lost his first tooth!!!  I, of course, freaked out.  Afterall, he is only 4 (or 4 and a half as he would say).  After I quickly googled "When should kids loose their first tooth?" and found out it was between 4 and 7 and that kids who get their teeth early, usually loose them earlier.  H got his at 4 months so was a bit relieved.  

The tooth is safely in a "tooth" pillow waiting for the Tooth Fairy tonight.  Harrison only wanted a short story tonight and said he was more excited than Christmas!!!

I haven't posted in a while so here are a couple of random pics.  

Quinn loves a good game of "Peak a Boo"!

 It is really fun to see the kids starting to play together more.  Harrison is really patient with Quinn.  Quinn...well...she's not so patient.  She knows the work "no" and is not afraid to use it...A LOT!!!

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New experiences to wrap up 2012!

Harrison has taken up not one but two new hobbies...both skiing!  First he and dad went out to try his new cross country skis!

 Harrison hit the slopes for ski school over break.  He LOVED it!

He did one group lesson and then one private lesson with Jessica.  Amazing how far he came in a short time.

New Year's Eve brought another new experience for Harrison...lobster dinner!  Grandma and Grandpa O were kind enough to ring in the new year with the kiddos.  

 Harrison thought it was "awesome"!

 He told me he really liked the lobster (and the butter) but would like to do crab next time too.  Well...such high class taste!  Back to Mac n Cheese tomorrow!

No silent night here!

It is time for the annual marathon Christmas posting!  So much fun to fit into one post!

We kicked off Christmas at home.  Quinn was excited to get into the gifts...it didn't matter whether it was for her.

 Harrison knew exactly which presents were his!

 Against my better judgement, we got Harrison the spiderman shooter he really, really wanted.

 On to celebrations at Grandma and Grandpa Lichty's house!  Harrison decided that we were going to do a play since grandma had headpieces for everyone.  He assigned us each parts and then told us what we were to act out.

 Annual family picture!

 A little drool...a lot of gifts!

 Straight from Italy, a chef hat and apron for our aspiring chef!

 Miss Q had to take a little break from all the gift opening.

 New X country skis for Harrison! He wanted to go out that night and try them!

 A new tunnel for Quinn...fun for both kids!

 Happy birthday Jesus!

 Harrison announced Christmas morning "Mom!  Sugar plums danced in my head last night!"  Nothing like getting into the Christmas spirit!  Santa did not disappoint!

 Christmas night brought us over to Grandma Grace's house for more family fun!

 We wrapped up our Christmas festivities with the Young family.  Harrison was happy to get to see Cousin Natalie visiting from Hawaii!

A busy and fun filled holiday!

Pre-Christmas Fun!

Harrison has a BIG weekend...and it showed by Sunday night when he fell asleep at 7:15!  Unfortunately we didn't get pictures of a few of the big highlights.  He went to Waterpark of America with Dad and Grandpa and is in love.  He went down every slide including a big one by himself.  (He is lucky that dad took him because not sure that would have happened if mom was there!

Sunday brought Harrison's stage debut!  He sang in church with the 3-5 years old.  He was clearly the breakout star.  Our phone has yet to ring with an actual record deal but pretty sure it will happen any day now. Truth be told, we think he may have sang about half the words but it was pretty cute none the less.  No pics of the big event because it was during the service.  We did head outside for the Live Nativity after the service. Quinn wasn't too sure about the animals but Harrison thought it was awesome.

After brunch, Harrison headed to Pump it Up for a school buddy's 5th birthday party.

 A parting shot...from our daycare person...Quinn refuses to let people feed her so only half her oatmeal makes it into her mouth!

Finally...a snow day!

Sunday brought 8 inches of snow and lots of fun winter activities!

Grandma Nancy and Harrison made a gingerbread house.  Most of the candy actually made it onto the house!  (Very surprising!)

 The sleds were out in full force! Harrison was outside all afternoon.  Apparently playing in the snow is hard work because he was sleeping before 7:30!

So thankful....

Grandpa Mike celebrated his 70th birthday on Thanksgiving!!!

Family from both sides came together to celebrate!

No Black Friday shopping for us...just a visit from our good friends The Smiths from Texas!  Quinn did a pretty good job sharing her toys with baby Teddy!

Harrison was the good helper!