12/9/2011 - Work Party

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Jesse was sweet enough to take care of the kids tonight so I could have a work night out for our Holiday Party. It was a nice break to be able to go out and have a few drinks with coworkers without having to chase around a baby at the same time. I still managed to get home early enough to snuggle with Finn and get an early evening wake up of the Liam.

12/8/2011 - Chinese Takeout

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Liam had his first taste of Chinese Takeout today. He dove right into the chow mein and braised tofu like the little champion eater that he is. That yummy food must have helped him to really take off walking tonight. For the past couple weeks, he has taken a step or two here or there. Tonight, he was taking 5 or 6 steps walking between Jesse and I. Yikes, with Liam walking, things are going to get interesting. Off topic, Finn has been a potty training rockstar. Fewer mistakes and only one poop in the pants. So so proud of both of our boys!

12/7/2011 - Adopt a Family

This year instead of swapping gifts among my immediate family, my sweet sister had the idea to adopt a family. We should have been doing this every year. It feels amazing to be helping out a 15 year old single mom of an 18 month old little boy have a better Christmas this year. And it was just as satisfying to buy presents for this family as it would have been to buy for my own.

12/6/2011 - Adventageous

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Baachan and Jiichan gave Finn and Liam an advent calendar with 21 days (Jesse and I need to provide the last 4 days worth) of gifts for the kids. Everyday, Finn gets to read a clue to find when his and Liam's gifts for the day are hidden. It's ridiculously sweet and fun. Hope this doesn't become an expectation annually!!

12/5/2011 - Toothy grin

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I don't know why I was so sad to lose Liam's gummy grin, when his toothy little smile is so freaking cute! Oh, it just kills me. What a gorgeous smile on that sweet little man. One day that smile is going to get him out of a lot of parking tickets and lots of dates!

12/4/2011 - Target Trip

To say that work has been busy for Jesse is an understatement. Lately, he has been putting a lot of work in on the weekends and evenings. In order to give him dedicated time to focus on work, I try to take the boys out of the house for short jaunts. We can't do long trips with Finny potty training right now. I had the boys tag along with me to Target. Finn LOVES Target. Target = toys! The boys enjoyed sitting side by side in their fancy double seat shopping cart. It was great to have them in there, but man that cart is hard to maneuver. I'm sure it just takes practice. They were such troopers. So lucky to have such good kids.

12/3/2011 - Going solo

Today was Finn's first day in the next level up of Little Kickers Soccer. This level is non-parent participation. Finn prefers to have us play with him at soccer, but I figure that we have to cut the cord some time. He cried a little bit in the beginning, but I gave him some time to work through it himself. Everything was great today .... except for the pants peeing incident. Poor kid peed in his pants, but mistakes will happen and we will all survive.