Harris House

Ellie is currently in mommy mode 24/7.  Most of her play centers around caring for her little doll that she affectionately calls “BeeBee!”  This baby is well fed, as Ellie feeds her meals about 15 times a day. Baby gets to take naps, go for walks, have her diaper changed, face wiped, rocked, clothes changed…..basically anything that has ever beend done to Ellie, she does to her baby.  It is amazing to see how God has wired her to nurture.

My sister Susie and her husband Anthony, “Uncle Neener and Aunt SuSu”  to Drew and Ellie, gave them the BEST present this year! They made a video of themselves singing and reading to the kids.  Ellie, Drew, and even James and I are hooked on every word every time the dvd rolls.  They have already watched it about 30 times in the month of January.  They love to do the actions to “This Little Light of Mine”, “My God is so Big”, and “Way Up in the Sky”.   Ellie laughs everytime SuSu reads “The Very Hungry Catapillar”, and Drew talks about Neener’s monkey impression non stop.

Thanks Sus and Anth for such a thoughtful gift that keeps on giving!

It’s hard to catch up on blogging after a long holiday break. We spent two weeks in Omaha, and I forgot my camera.  So sad. Instead, here are some random pictures from winter thus far.

Ellie and Drew love to quote Santa and say  “ho ho ho” whenever they see pictures of Santa.  Tonight, they got to meet him.  They were pretty excited while they waited their turn, saying “ho ho ho” and waving.  They gave him high fives and then proceeded to freak out when I stuck them on his lap. Ha ha ha…. they calmed down after I tortured them long enough to take a picture. Then they gave him another high-five, “knucks”, and happily accepted a lollipop. 

  After Santa, we rode the carousal- Ellie’s favorite. She said “Neigh!” at the top of her lungs the minute we walked into the mall.  James chose the Razorback for Drew’s ride, and Drew smiled the entire ride.  We topped off the night with ice cream and even got sucked into buying a CD of Elmo songs with the kids names personalized in the songs.  It’s just irresistable when your little overall clad, toe head is busting a move at the mall to the voice of his current BFF Elmo.

Merry Christmas!

Drew and Ellie rediscovered the back yard today since it has been cold, and they haven’t been outside in a while. They played together for almost an hour. Nothing like climbing, running, sliding, and digging in church clothes. Ellie’s tights were black and soaked.

Later today our friends came over for dinner.  The highlight was getting spend a couple minutes playing with Otis.  Ellie was a big fan of the kisses and they both were thrilled to feed him little bites of cheese.

Other recent adventures: lights on the fayetteville square, cookie decorating, and raking leaves.

Drew is definitely getting into the holiday spirit.

Despite 75 degree temperatures, Christmas was in full swing in Branson the weekend of November 12th.  We enjoyed Silver Dollar City, shopping and family .  It was a great weekend with the Harris family. We stayed in a beautiful home on Table Rock lake. James and Dawson went fishing both mornings, and Drew and Ellie loved collecting acorns with Grandpa and playing in the leaves with Grandma.

 Saturday we went to Silver Dollar City.  We all enjoyed the lights and festive atmosphere. Drew and Ellie were thrilled to be able to ride two rides. Waiting in line was torture for them, but worth it to experience the thrill of the Happy Frogs and Dancing Caterpillars. So far they are both little adrenaline junkies.

Sunday, we met up with the extended family for brunch at Cracker Barrell.  It was great to catch up with James’ aunts, uncles and cousins and enjoy a little outlet mall shopping. James was in the mood to shop which always makes a day of shopping more fun.

A little music lesson for today.  Ellie is very ready for a nap and her little eyelids are droopy, but she manages to match pitch! (I’m so proud)  Drew is a little musician and loves to sing, dance, and play the drums.  They love this song, because it is full of their favorite words:  hello, goodbye, oh no,and  go, go, go!

This week The Beatles, next week, ????? Any suggestions?

For the record….. Ellie are Drew are both really into playing “be be” (baby) and giving me that bottle to pretend to feed them and rock them. She’s not really drinking out of a bottle- she’d much rather have a Diet Coke with Lime (kidding).  They have also found pacifiers recently and use those to play baby. Too bad she wanted nothing to do with them when I was trying to get her to take one.

Happy Halloween!