Kiddos

Kiddos

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Hair

Weston wakes up with quite the bed head....I often think about taking pictures, but rarely do in the mornings. Sometimes it's a fight to tame it, but other times he doesn't mind me wetting it down to at least try to make him look presentable.
However, yesterday morning Weston apparently wanted to do it himself. I washed my hair in the tub and then needed to feed Tyge, so I went to the living room. Weston played for a few minutes and then dissapeared. I could hear the water running, and when I yelled for him he would just yell "mommy" back, rather than stop what he was doing and come back to the living room. Soon I went after him and this is what I found........someone wanted to wash their own hair.

Merry Christmas!

We started out Christmas morning at Cousin Sheri's for breakfast with the Weststeyn clan. Weston "played" with Evie and Melissa...driving his new airplane thru Evie's dominos!Tyge and Kash hung out with Great Grandma and Great Auntie Delores.
We then headed over to have lunch with the Meneses family. Mmmmmm....Avo's cioppino and torresmos! After a great meal we moved to the Christmas tree and opening gifts. All week long Weston had his eye on the presents, pointing to them and looking at us each time saying "birthday?". First up was a gift from his Tia Julie, a collection of Toy Story action figures. After tearing all the paper off and getting really excited he brought the box over to his dad saying "open, open". And so Danny did open up the box, and Weston took his "cowboy" and "buzz" into the other room and started playing. It took a long time to convince him to come back to open other packages.

Once he discovered there was more to open, he went thru them pretty fast. We came home with Toy Story 2 and 3, and he hasn't wanted to watch anything but them all week.
Tyge was nice and comfy with Cousin Alexx... ...as was Weston.Tyge also met his godfather, Uncle David, Aunt Traci and cousin Matthew. Annual grandkids photo....
...and Grandparents photo.Back in Oregon, the day after Christmas, we had more gifts waiting for us. Including stockings sent from Grandma JoAnn....Weston liked dumping everything out of his "sock".

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Christmas Eve

This year things were a little different....with Grandpa and Grandma in Montana, Uncle Josh's family in Denver and Aunt Tami's family at her in-law's. But Aunt Jennifer and Mommy made the most of it and got together for our Weststeyn Family Christmas Eve get-together. We even followed tradition and had just appetizers/finger foods for dinner. In addition to the lack of bodies, we moved our location to Chad's house since Jennifer didn't put a tree up at her place.
Weston really loved playing with the train....especially since we didn't put ours up this year (note that Weston had theirs de-railed in a matter of seconds).

The future Mr. and Mrs. DeJong...Aunt Jennifer and Uncle Chad!

Week in California

Our trip to California for Christmas started out fairly low key. The boys did great on the way down, sleeping for most of it and only having to stop three times when Tyge needed to be fed. We spent the first couple of days visiting friends and family. Tyge and Weston got to meet their cousin Kash, born just two weeks before Tyge, but half the size of him.He also got to meet his Great Grandma Weststeyn.
And Great Grandpa Weststeyn got to meet him and Kash too.Although it was rainy most of the week, we also spent a little bit of time visiting the cows and calves on Avo's dairy.

Pictures I like...


Mid-December

Weston has become quite the entertainer and helper....he is always interested in what Tyge is doing, and thinks Tyge should be interested in what he is doing. Weston also got an earlier Christmas present from Darlene. She knows him well and he was really excited about his new work bench. The morning after we put it together I heard him in his room....instead of the usual get out of bed and come find mommy, he started playing with his tools.

He also thought his tools would be helpful to Daddy when fixing a leak under the kitchen sink.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Second annual family picture session

On Weston's birthday we had some pictures taken of the boys and our family. Just like when Weston turned one, we headed down the road to our neighbor's place to take advantage of the beautiful outdoors.

Yes, we even included Flo!