Christmas Day

This year, Christmas was so much fun! Miller understood everything and was so excited for Santa to come.

Here are the stockings, milk and cookie (actually a huge snowman rice crispy treat that Miller and I made for Santa). We even put a big bowl of water and an apple on our front porch for the reindeer. Of course Miller's favorite reindeer is Rudolf.

Walking in and seeing what Santa left - his very own set of golf clubs in a red bag so he can play with daddy and a ton of Toy Story stuff (complete with a Slinky Dog and a Buzz Lightyear that talks).

Me and my boys on Christmas morning. We gave Miller a bike with training wheels this year. We've been so busy since Christmas and the weather hasn't been great when we have been home, that we haven't even had time to go out and ride it yet. He did ride it around the house several times.

After we did Santa and our gifts at our house, we headed over to Noni and JoJo's for Christmas morning there.

The Christmas of the matching footed pj's.

Yep, the whole Argue clan had matching footed pj's. The boys were in plaid and the girls in red (we couldn't find all of our sizes in one pattern). I loved that Miller and Miles even matched. The funniest part was that Blake and Jud busted out of theirs and ripped the crotch. We should have taken a picture - too funny!

I love my three boys!

Love the rents too - so cute!

Miller has on google eye glasses and a reindeer nose that blinks. He loves stuff like this. I am going to say it again...I think we have a class clown on our hands.

Noni and JoJo gave Miller a new pair of tennis shoes. JoJo called them his fast shoes and told Miller they would make him run really fast. Miller immediately took off his footed pj's so he could put his "fast shoes" on and run around.

Yep, we had a streaker. We laughed so hard.

Then he hid in a box. Boys will be boys.

Super Miller...this was one of his favorite gifts from Noni & JoJo. He's also super excited to have his own bounce house to jump in. Thanks for always spoiling us Noni & JoJo!

Miles in all the bows after all the presents were opened. We have taken this picture of Miller the last few years and we decided it was time to turn it over to Miles.

This may be my only chance to have a bow head.

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, we had a great dinner at my parents and then headed to church for the candlelight service. Here are a few pictures we snapped before we left for church.

This is the best picture we could get of the boys with the little time we had. I'll have to dress them in these matching outfits again and try to get some better ones.

Miles Eating Rice Cereal

Since we switched from breast milk to formula at four months, we decided to wait to give him rice cereal until after Thanksgiving. Then the craziness of the holidays started so we just tried it last week for the first time. We know he's not lacking in the size department so we figured it wasn't a rush.

He actually opened his mouth like he knew what to do...

...but this is how the rest of the process went. Now that we are a week into it, he's doing a little better and actually seems to enjoy meal time. We are just going to keep it at rice cereal once a day until we get back from our New Years trip. Then the we will work in fruits and veggies. My goal is to make them this time around.

Miles - Five Months

Miles is growing fast. Here are a few things he can do/milestones:

• Rolls over both ways
• Has two teeth
• Loves to play with all sorts of toys and they usually end up in his mouth
• Smiles and laughs constantly. Everyone always says, "is he this happy all the time?" Yes, he is.
• Can almost sit up on his own
• Loves playing in the exersaucer
• Just started eating rice cereal for the first time (pictures to come soon)
• Babbles all the time
• Plays with his feet all the time and loves to put them in his mouth
• Sleeps about 11 hours at night and take three naps during the day

Santa #3

Every year our church has Breakfast with Santa. This year was especially fun because Miller really enjoyed all the fun crafts and activities.

Miller with Frosty. He said, "that's not the real Frosty, because he's furry."

Miller telling Santa that he wants real golf clubs in a red bag.

Wow - they are both looking at the camera and smiling.

The Holy Family

For the last three years, our church has recreated Old Bethlehem at the time of Jesus' birth. It's a really cool experience. The whole church is transformed and everyone participating is in character. Visitors walk through and see everything from store merchants, a wedding feast, people stomping grapes to make wine, a funeral processional, the inn and the stable with live animals and of course Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. That is where we came in. We were asked to be the Holy family for two hours on Sunday night. Of course we couldn't pass it up.

Miles made a great baby Jesus. He slept for about 45 minutes and only fussed for about 15 minutes. Baby Jesus cried, right? I think he was just a little overwhelmed with all the people that followed the star to come and see him.

Noni and JoJo brought Miller up to see Old Bethlehem and us. Noni told him to go see baby Jesus and he said, "that's not baby Jesus, that's Miles."

What a special memory to share with Miles when he gets older.

Christmas Party with Santa

Some good friends of ours, the Holtons, had a Christmas party in early December. It was crazy with all the kids running around but so much fun. Santa even stopped by to visit...so exciting!

I just love this little boy! We were walking into the party and Jud snapped this.

He was super excited.

Both boys with Santa. Too bad neither one of them were looking at the camera.

Six out of the eight girls that are in my Tuesday night Bible Study were there. We all have kids under four. It's amazing to see the difference in this group from when I joined 3.5 years ago when no one had kids. What a great group...I love these girls and their families!

BABIES! The three babies in the group - Miles, Abigail Hilgers and Louis Macey. I can't wait to see what they will all look like in a year from now.

Miller's Preschool Fall Picture

Thanksmas

We were in Lincoln for six days and had so much fun just being together with the fam. We celebrated Thanksmas (the Martin way of celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas together no matter what time of year). Unfortunately, we didn't take a ton of pictures on our camera - here's what we got.

Cousins (Max, Bekah, Miles and Miller) wearing the Mickey Mouse hats that Grandpa and GraMary brought back to the kids from Disney World.

"Grand" picture.

Since we didn't leave until Tuesday, we decided to go to the Lincoln Children's Museum one day. If you are ever in Lincoln, Nebraska, it's a great place to take kiddos. Miller had so much fun!

Driving a Semi-truck with Grandpa.

Is the chair big or is Miller little?

Miller, GraMary, Miles and I riding a safari bus.

Grandpa painting Miller's face.

Flying an airplane.

Miller as an astronaut.

Husker football player.

Police motorcycle.

Miles had fun at the museum too! While we were there, I noticed his first tooth had broken through. Another one broke through about a week later.

Thanksgiving Trip

It was Thanksgiving in Lincoln this year and we flew Southwest Airlines to Kansas City and then flew home from Omaha. We had a quick fun visit in KC with Ricky and Shae before we drove to Lincoln.

We spent a few hours at Union Station to see the dinosaur and train exhibits. The dinosaurs were huge and some of them moved and roared. Miller was a little scared of them and was forced to turn his back to this T-Rex to take a picture. So far, he's only had one dinosaur nightmare.

He loved looking at all the trains and mini villages.

Clowning around at Ricky and Shae's. He's about at silly as his new monkey hat.

Ricky and Shae with Miles in his KU outfit they gave Miller when he was born.