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the last month of 2013 begins

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By Sarah
I picked out these pictures on December 10.  This might let you know how crazy I feel like my life has been lately.  I apologize to our birth mothers.  I am sure you would have liked to know about Christmas a long time ago.  I think of you often and probably wouldn't have the heart to put time into the blog at all (since moving) if it wasn't for you both.
These 4 loved the Christmas season.  The tree, the lights, spending time with family and dreaming of the gifts they would give and receive.  One thing about moving to a house that is twice as big -- seems like you only have half the decorations you used to.  He he.  Dan did a great job making our porch look wonderful with what we already owned.  To me, he's a genius.

Kaelah says Christmas was really fun and she liked the presents she got.  According to this certificate, she deserved them.  She was recognized as showing the trait of responsible at school and got to be on the morning announcements.  She was very proud.  I wasn't surprised a bit.  She is an ideal student.  Just wish that ideal student could come home to my house and be nice to her little brother.  Danny said the best part of Christmas was unwrapping presents.  Gifts are definitely his love language.

This picture of Natalie is Kaelah's favorite picture from this post.  This one has us all wrapped around her finger.  Dad got a major upgrade in the snuggle department after discovering how much the baby loves hats with tassels.  He wore this around the house whenever he wanted a turn with her and it worked out well.
Our boy turned 4.5 in December.  As requested, Grandma K made him a blue airplane cake, which later made Michelle look like a Smurf to me.  lol.


Natalie worked extremely hard to have her first tooth all the way in by Christmas.  I swear her teeth start to come in and then go back and then begin all over again.  At one point her gums looked so bad I watched for signs of infection.  On another occasion, when I was at the dentist for an Invisaline check up I had him look at what seemed to be a gash on her gum.  Poor thing just got back luck in this department.  What is kind of fun, though, is that Kaelah is getting her 6-year-old molars too so they are teething at the same time, which Kaelah gets a kick out of.

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