November 2010

Willem and Ellie continue to be more and more interested in each other. Willem has taken to saying " Hello Princess" to Ellie in a high pitched voice throughout the day. I'm now wondering what exactly our voices must sound like to him. This month he helped give her a bath and is such a big help in the car when Ellie is upset!! He'll sing her the ABC's or Twinkle Twinkle and she calms down. But when Mom tries to bust out a tune when there is no crying Willem draws the line and says, "Ellie is not sad Mom, you do not need to sing." One day I had the audacity to pick him up from preschool without Ellie and he gave me no hug, instead ran to me and said "Where is my baby?".


Ellie really likes the exersaucer, she is extremely adept at getting the flower and other chew toys into her mouth to provide teething relief. She especially likes it when her brother will play with the toys from the outside of the exersaucer while she is in it.

Willem cracking himself up playing telephone

Ellie enjoying special Daddy time. Jason was on nights this month so there are fewer pictures. Plus I misplaced our camera last month, it will probably be found 5 years from now when we move, but for now we are relying on borrowed cameras and our phones.

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Chillaxing in the crib. When we put Ellie in the crib with Willem, they both seem to calm down. Our fingers are crossed as we plan for them to share a room in a year or so.

Willem and Daddy making Christmas ornaments for the grandparents.

This might be our first picture where we are all three looking at the camera. Willem keeps telling me, "Mommy, you need a bigger lap". Being the oldest, I understand what he means, but he's relishing in his role of older brother.

Willem and Paw Paw horsing around on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving tradition of making Grandma Rose's Chicken Noodle dish. Willem was a pro at cutting the noodles!

On Thanksgiving Day early in the morning, Tia Julie and Grandma arrived from Missouri. Grandma moved out to Phoenix to be closer to us and we are loving having her here!! It threw Willem off that she drove rather than flew in but he was just so happy to wake up and see Tia Julie and Grandma at our house. Jason worked on Thanksgiving, so we celebrated with the Torry's that day and the continued celebrating the next day at our house when Jason could be here as well. We had friends and family join us and had a wonderful time.

We picked out our Christmas Tree with Tia Julie and Grandma Thanksgiving Weekend. Willem fell in love with a tree a foot taller than him and said that was the tree we needed to get. It took some negotiation and a trip to Target for his own tree but we all ended up feeling that we found the right trees.
Our 2010 Family Christmas Tree Selection

Other November happenings:

-One evening I took Ellie and Willem on a walk and Willem decided to walk and push his own stroller. He loaded up the stroller with trains and we ventured out into the neighborhood. We would walk a ways and then Willem would stop and line up all the trains on the sidewalk and play awhile and then load them up into the stroller again.
-Since Willem was a baby we've been wondering what it was that he dreams about and for the first time he woke up one morning this month and told Jason he dreamed about a blue train.

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