Christmas 2009

Lainey really enjoyed Christmas this year. She loved opening up her presents, but she got so many of them that after a while she was ready to move on to the next thing. It was fun to see her interact with all her cousins, she loved having the extra playmates :) Hope all of you had a very Merry Christmas and wishing you and your families a Happy and Blessed New Year!

Although it appears I'm more excited than she is about this shopping cart, she absolutely LOVES it! She wanted to push that around instead of open the rest of her presents.


Cousin Reagan and Lainey playing with hair stuff. Lainey was preparing to use the hair dryer on Reagan. I can only imagine what these two will be up to as they get older.


The best "Peschka cousin" picture I got.


So festive!


Here she's got on her own golf bag at the golf shop. It was so cute watching her walk around with the clubs and all....just like her daddy :)


Here's Santa's little helper.


I don't want to take another picture!!!!


Cousin Kinly and Lainey. She wants to be a big help with the baby. PS - she doesn't like to say Kinly, so she still calls her "Baybee"


Mommy and Lainey.


Ew, a present just for me!


The presnets were out of control. Dylan and Chloe came down at four in the morning to start opening up presents. We told them it was too early and to go back to bed....thank goodness. Some of us were up until 3:30 wrapping all these presents!


All the kids wanted to play Santa and help hand out presents. It was too cute.


More of Santa's helpers.





Christmas Eve service. She was reading the program.





Helping Addie with her "boddle"


Lainey and Daddy posing with their suitcases. She loves to push her "case" around waving and repeating "Bye Bye. Bye Bye"


Daddy and Lainey opening up presents on Christmas Day!


Here she is pushing her Bitty Baby in her stroller. She loved this!


Another present.


Christmas caroling in Wilson, Kansas. It sounded like a really weird idea, but once we all drank a couple of beers and loaded up the vehicles we had a really good time! It was fun seeing everyone's faces as they opened up their front doors with a random group of carolers :)


Matching stocking hats.

Random Lainey Stories

Lainey amazes me each and everyday. I've loved every part of being a mom, but so far 18 months+ is my favorite age. She is a little sponge and absorbs so much of what we say and tell her. It's a good thing Ryan and I are careful about what we say....most days ;) For example, I spilled my water the other day and said, "Oh, shhhhhhoooot," drawing out the shhhh because I was close to letting the other word slip out with Lainey standing right there. She looks at me and says, "Mommy Shhhhooot." She went over get a towel and helped me clean up my mess :)

I wear contacts and she has watched me put them before, but it was at least a few weeks ago. Saturday I was rinsing my contacts and she comes up and says "tacts, tacts." I said "Oh, contacts?" She looks at me and says "Yep!" Right after that she says, "gasses." I said, "Oh, mommy is wearing contacts instead of glasses?" She said, "Yep!" I was amazed that she was able to correlate glasses and contacts together!

I'll write more later..

Here she's running up to the camera yelling "Cheeeese!!!" even though it looks nothing like that.

Random Photos from November

This is from our trip to DC to see my cousins. Chloe likes to hide in this toy box and scare Addy and I. I wasn't scared.


Here I am helping out my baby cousin Kinly with her bottle. She likes for me to help and I love to do it. I wonder when I'll get a baby brother or sister. Hmmmmmm.


Here I am with a mini horse named Peanut. I was trying to pet him while getting away from Jake the dog. Jake was always chasing and jumping up on me. Ugh.


Here's a better picture (sort of) of Peanut, Jake and I.


I rode on Pappo's golf cart a few weeks ago. Mommy always poses for the camera, but I'm too busy checking things out to look up for a picture.


This is my cousin Addy and I.


Punk Rocker hairdos!


Mommy and the babies.