I love this picture Abby drew for Matt for his birthday.  Unfortunately, Matt spent his birthday last week in the ER with our sweet Connor.  The way he was breathing was a bit concerning so Matt took him to urgent care after dinner.  They also were concerned and so they sent them on the ER.  I am so thankful that my sister is close and was able to come over and watch the Abby and Charlie(and encourage me to drive down our snow covered hill) while I visited Connor in the hospital.  He was such a tropper despite having to get an IV.  The silver lining is that we have now convinced Connor that he needs to wear a coat in the winter.

Abby and Connor were in stitches experimenting with static electricity this morning.  The poor torchered 3rd child.  Luckily, Charlie is such a good sport.

Christmas morning face painting.  We had such a great Christmas.  My brother and his girlfriend flew in from Colorado and we got to spend a ton of time with our beloved cousins and grandma and grandpa Ott.  

I love the pictures of babies fascinated with Christmas lights.  Charlie was very intrigued, but his time with the lights was short lived because he kept trying to eat the lights.

Abby and Connor share a room now that Charlie has come into our lives, but they were so excited to sleep in the big bed in the guest room together the other night.  Here they are snuggled up the next morning.