Reading

 Cecily see's the adults reading big books so she wants to be just like them. Her book of choice is the Scrabble Dictionary. We play this game a lot at the Wagner household so we were constantly asking to borrow CC's "reading book". At one point someone asked her to read it to them and she replied "no, I'm just reading in my head".

Christmas Eve

 We had our traditional gift exchange game on Christmas eve. and CC was the photographer.

 CC got to open her Christmas Jammies

Cecily missed her daddy so much she couldnt wait to make this gingerbread house with him when he FINALLY came to CA

Visit with Great Grandpa Harris

 We were able to make a trip to Sacramento to see my Grandpa whom we don't get to see very often and it was really great! Cecily was in love right away and wanted to Hold Grandpa's hand when crossing the street. He is such a sweet. kind Grandpa and the kids were warmed up to him right away!

 Grandpa Harris and a couple of his Great Grands

 We Love you! Thanks for lunch and a fun visit!

Kreg can always find someone to talk politics and financials with

Christmas Day

CC and Oli had such a fun Christmas and have enjoyed all of there gifts! Thank you to everyone for spoiling us!

 CC had fun tearing open all her gifts

 Oli and I in our Jammies

 These dress ups have been worn lots since M&M gave them to her!

CC running full speed to the gifts. She was happy to be the leader this year.

Santa at Bass pro shop

 Cecily posing in a camping chair at Bass pro shop in her fancy Christmas clothes

Posing with Santa at Bass Pro Shop. After waiting a good 1 and 1/2 hours to see santa, he forgot to ask CC what she wanted for Christmas so she had to run back and yell to him "I want a carseat for  my babies"!!

Cany you believe how big my cute kids are getting?

They really love each other!

Twins?

These two cousins are so darling. They are 4 months apart but so close in size and they look similar. Its easy to glance at them mistake them for each other. It is going to be so fun to watch them grow up together.

Painter

CC had fun updating grandma's house with a new paint color. Grandma kept saying she was so amazed at her attention span. She enjoyed this activity for a good 3 hours.

I can feed myself

 

And just because it was cute!

Decking the halls with Grandma

 Each yr CC and Grandma enjoy decorating the tree together. This yr Oli got to watch

Decorating sugar cookies!

Oliver is 7 months

 Having fun chasing sister around the neighborhood.He is fast in the walker but she is faster.

 Wait for me!!

 One afternoon he was a grouch, he wasnt hungry, tired or poopy. So I swaddled him and he was Happy! I have tried numerous times to end the swaddling but we always go back because he just really loves it.

 Happy to be swaddled and watching HGTV with Mom.

 I found my tongue

 Loving the swing

 Getting ready to learn to crawl

At 7 months our Oliver is still as happy as can be! He is such an easy going child (I sure hope he stays that way).
Still loving the swaddle and the binky
Eating 3 furit and veggie meals a day
LOVING the walker and holding hands to walk around.
Still wont roll from back to belly would just rather be sitting, standing, or walking.
Using his voice to "YELL"
Wearing 6-9 and 6-12 months clothes
It is so fun to watch him learn and grow everyday!

Future pop singer?

Remember this video? When she was headed for american idol with her rendition of the "Charly" theme song. Well she is a couple yrs older now and has more experience under her belt She is taking it to the next level and trying out hip hop. she has also solicited her cousin Ashton's help with the beat boxing. Who knows maybe it will be a family thing. Here is our CC's version of "Apple Bottom Jeans".

As for an update on her she is doing so much better today. No fever or headaches. My Mom always said if you want your kid to get better take an expensive trip to the DR and they will be healed! We are so grateful to have our girl back and to have so many people care for us and help us! Thank you!

ER trip

My poor little CC girl has been sick. She has had a fever, Headache and neckache for going on 6 days now. We are in CA so we hesitated taking her to the DR because of  our health insurance not covering a visit here. So we had a Nurse friend come check her out, Ears, nose, throat, and chest were clear. We waited two more days then had a DR friend come check her out. Same as before everything was clear. We were concerned about meningitis because of the neck and head pain but that was all checking out . She recieved a blessing on Saturday morning but by the afternoon she was not getting any better and her fever was still fairly high so I knew I needed to take her in. I called a friend and she was sweet enough to watch Oli while I took CC in. Grandma was already in the hospital with Grandpa so when we got there she met us in the ER. The Drs gave her IVs, hooked her up to every machine and giving her xrays. After seeing everything was clear  but her white blood count was high they decided we should give her a spinal tap to make sure she didnt have meningitis.The Drs kept saying it really isnt as bad as it sounds the procedure is quick and she will be sedated. So after a lot of going back and forth and hard descion making we decided that is what we would do. We wanted to air on the side of caution. At that moment I felt like a real parent having to make a hard decision like that for my little girl. It was hard to do it with out Kreg being with me but, boy am I lucky to have the BEST mother in-law ever!! She helped me stay calm and was so level headed about it all. She really has the whole hospital thing down too, thats what you get after spending almost a yr there with a sick family memeber. the whole experience was hard on me but most of all on my sweet girl. She cried every time any nurse or Dr entered her room, anytime they added another monitor to her body and most of all when they had to hold her down to give her the tap. They tried sedating her but she is a fighter in everyway and her little body even fought the sleep so she was numb but awake.:(  so needless to say it happened exactly how I imagined and to me it was a BIG deal. She broke blood vessels around her eyes from screaming so hard.

 The tests came back negative thank goodness, so they are summing it up to some kind of virus. We are hoping she will return to herself very soon. I miss my crazy, silly girl! We are home now, and just waiting this virus out. if it doesnt improve in the next day or so we will go back. We could use prayers for our CC and Kreg's Dad as well. Thanks!