Our baby is growing up...

In preparation for the baby we moved Alex into a diffrerent room - with a big boy bed! He has done remarkably well with the change and has slept in his new big boy bed for 2 nights. Here he is the first night before going to sleep and then the next morning. (Mommy WHY are you taking my picture right now!?)

Merry Christmas

Well it was an exciting day at the Shumway house yesterday. Alex and Rebekah had a GREAT time and it was fun to see such excitement on their faces. Here are a few pictures of the day.

Christmas Eve - NEW Jammies!

Santa had no troube finding our house.
A "Shake and Go" racetrack for Alex
and a Barbie Island Princess dress for Rebekah

We had a lot of fun doing the Advent Calendar this year. Every day we read a little devotion and then the kids took turns opening the door to find another peice of the Nativity. As you can see we have quite the scene, with floating camels and sheep that can climb trees.

This was such a hit with the kids, they were both quite upset last night when they found out we were DONE with Advent!

C *L*E*M*S*OOOOOOOO*N!
Ready for next season thanks to Aunt Ree Ree!
Notice Rebekah's "pose" it's her new thing - look back at the PJ picture.

Rebekah the princess - she couldn't love it more. (Thanks Grandma Melissa!) She changed about 10 times yesterday back and forth between this dress and her Barbie dress. She said she was going to the "ball".

All aboard! (He is actually saying that) Yeah! finally some dress up for Alex!

Rebekah loved the new doll Grandma JoAnn made for her. She named her Abigail.

Well that's about it. We hope all of you had a very Merry Christmas as well! God Bless!

Sometimes a parent just has to brag!

Just thought I would share pictures of the two cutest kids in the world!

Decorating the Tree

Well it has been a while since my last post. I thought I would just share a few pictures of the kids decorating the tree - actually putting the first two ornaments on the tree. They are both quite excited about Christmas. Whenever Alex sees something relating to Christmas - be it a Nativity, a tree, a snowman or whatever he excitedly yells (and I mean YELLS) "Christmas! Look Mommy Christmas!" It's pretty cute. We have a CD of children singing Christmas songs that they both love. Rebekah's favorites are Jingle Bells, Rudolph, Away in a Manger and Frosty the Snowman. Alex loves to sing along too, although he doesn't get all the words in. His rendition of Jingle Bells goes something like this...

Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
Waaaay
HEY!

It cracks me up every time.
I'm going to try to get it on video to share soon. In the meantime, enjoy the pictures!

Rebekah hangs the first ornament.

Alex gets instruction and then goes to town!

A couple of Sundays ago the kids wore the holiday outfits Grandma Melissa sent -

SO CUTE! A picture was in order.