After Thanksgiving, we all returned to Charlottesville for three weeks before George's 2-week Christmas vacation. The weather is getting colder so that means more time inside trying to find things to do. Between friends coming over to play, walking a dog (we do it as a job for a resident that works at the hospital), and trying to get ready for Christmas, the time seems to have passed quickly.
George spent the last four weeks of school doing his Family Medicine rotation. Although he had reservations going into it, by the end of the four weeks he decided that if it wasn't for the lousy pay, it would be an okay career choice. He's still pretty set on Emergency Medicine, but at least he enjoyed his month of clinic work. We even got invited to the staff Christmas party where everyone I met was impressed with George and loved working with him. No surprise. George is pretty amazing.
Jude is saying a few words now! He says "this" and "that" when he points to things, will say "ba ba" for bottle and signs "eat", "drink", and "more". Super cute! He even squeezes a "mama" in every now again, but, of course, his favorite word to say is...
"DA DA!"
Every morning when he wakes up, he asks for Da Da and then points to our bedroom until I take him over to our bed where he proceeds to clobber George until he wakes up. George loves it! What a great way to wake up in the morning! Jude also LOVES our neighbors (the Elmers--good friends who have twins Lance's age that are always playing together). Jude will crawl over to our door and pound on it and whine until I open it, and then he'll smile really big and point to the Elmer's door across the hallway and say "this... this?" until I walk him over to their door. Once we're finally there, he'll knock and wait to be let in. It is hilarious! If ever I leave the door open when I'm rotating the laundry, he'll take it upon himself to crawl across the hallway and start banging on their door himself. They feed him chocolate and let him play with their computer mouse... can you blame him for wanting to visit? We love living next to them!
Lance is still really into Transformers, Legos, and Bakugans. One of our favorite things to do during the day while Jude is asleep is to play "Lego Indiana Jones" on the PS3. Lance is getting to be really good and together we have beaten every level in the game! Now we go back to win "money" to buy more characters we can use when we replay levels. It's a lot of fun! He also loves Phineas and Ferb on the Disney channel and will watch episodes on YouTube if it's not available on the TV. It's a great show (in fact, I would love to get all the episodes on DVD if they ever offer them) and I am often watching and laughing right along with Lance.
I've been staying busy playing with the boys while George is at work and surfing my new internet obsession: craft blogs! I even posted to my very first "linky party" last week with my photo block ornaments I made. It's fun to browse the blogosphere and see all the great ideas people have to reuse and create beautiful things from what they have or find at thrift stores and such.
I think that's all the updates so far. I posted a few pictures I took over the past month with some of the things that have kept us busy at home.
George spent the last four weeks of school doing his Family Medicine rotation. Although he had reservations going into it, by the end of the four weeks he decided that if it wasn't for the lousy pay, it would be an okay career choice. He's still pretty set on Emergency Medicine, but at least he enjoyed his month of clinic work. We even got invited to the staff Christmas party where everyone I met was impressed with George and loved working with him. No surprise. George is pretty amazing.
Jude is saying a few words now! He says "this" and "that" when he points to things, will say "ba ba" for bottle and signs "eat", "drink", and "more". Super cute! He even squeezes a "mama" in every now again, but, of course, his favorite word to say is...
"DA DA!"
Every morning when he wakes up, he asks for Da Da and then points to our bedroom until I take him over to our bed where he proceeds to clobber George until he wakes up. George loves it! What a great way to wake up in the morning! Jude also LOVES our neighbors (the Elmers--good friends who have twins Lance's age that are always playing together). Jude will crawl over to our door and pound on it and whine until I open it, and then he'll smile really big and point to the Elmer's door across the hallway and say "this... this?" until I walk him over to their door. Once we're finally there, he'll knock and wait to be let in. It is hilarious! If ever I leave the door open when I'm rotating the laundry, he'll take it upon himself to crawl across the hallway and start banging on their door himself. They feed him chocolate and let him play with their computer mouse... can you blame him for wanting to visit? We love living next to them!
Lance is still really into Transformers, Legos, and Bakugans. One of our favorite things to do during the day while Jude is asleep is to play "Lego Indiana Jones" on the PS3. Lance is getting to be really good and together we have beaten every level in the game! Now we go back to win "money" to buy more characters we can use when we replay levels. It's a lot of fun! He also loves Phineas and Ferb on the Disney channel and will watch episodes on YouTube if it's not available on the TV. It's a great show (in fact, I would love to get all the episodes on DVD if they ever offer them) and I am often watching and laughing right along with Lance.
I've been staying busy playing with the boys while George is at work and surfing my new internet obsession: craft blogs! I even posted to my very first "linky party" last week with my photo block ornaments I made. It's fun to browse the blogosphere and see all the great ideas people have to reuse and create beautiful things from what they have or find at thrift stores and such.
I think that's all the updates so far. I posted a few pictures I took over the past month with some of the things that have kept us busy at home.
Jude keeping a sleeping George company in the morning. :)
We have tons of squirrels that come to eat the acorns that fall off the trees in our back yard. It is fun to watch them run and play (or eat at the table). They are pretty brave and come all the way up to the door, even though they can see us standing there watching them. The boys think it's pretty neat:
A few years ago, Grandma Brewer gave Lance a stuffed snowman for Christmas. It's been a standard decoration in our house since then and this year, Jude discovered it.
A few years ago, Grandma Brewer gave Lance a stuffed snowman for Christmas. It's been a standard decoration in our house since then and this year, Jude discovered it.
One of his favorite things to do is climb all over him and lay on top. I'm glad he likes it so much. It reminds me of Grandma Brewer and how much she loves us every time I see it.
The boys are getting better at playing together as Jude gets older. They both love the large Legos I used to play with when I was their age. We broke them out one day and they sat for a while and played together.
The boys are getting better at playing together as Jude gets older. They both love the large Legos I used to play with when I was their age. We broke them out one day and they sat for a while and played together.
Mom and Glenn came into town to watch their home HS Football team compete at UVA for the State Championships and we got to see them and go out to dinner at the Wood Grill Buffet (kinda like Golden Corral, but better). It was so nice to have them visit us! Amy came the night before and spent the night, too! It was a lot of fun! That same night we had some friends over and we all watched "Inception" together. Great movie!
Killian and Kendall from next door come over almost every day to play with Lance, but inevitably Lance and Killian end up playing "Lego Indiana Jones" together. Jude loves to watch (which really means crawl up and turn off the TV at every opportunity and then laugh when the boys get upset... stinker!).
We try to do an Advent Calendar every year and this year instead of chocolate for each day we are doing a Lego Advent. It is super cute and Lance can't get enough of it! The completed set is a scene from a home where the family is getting ready for Christmas plus some from Santa's preparations. Every day is another figurine or toy to put together or a piece of furniture for the scene. My favorite ones so far have been a mini drumset for the Lego boy, a toy firetruck for the lego boy, and a shower you build for a Santa figure (the Santa is wearing nothing but a speedo and comes with a bath brush so he can shower before he starts his run). It's very clever and fun and Lance has a great time putting together the pieces as the instructions say, then promptly taking it apart and building his own creation. It's also a great way to get Lance to get ready for bed at night without having to ask him twice... we always do the advent calendar AFTER bath, teeth, jammies, and prayer.
It's been a good month, but we are so excited to be up in Ashburn with our families for the next two weeks to celebrate Christmas and New Years! Lance is headed to California on Christmas Eve to spend a week with his dad and his Dahlquist cousins. He loves his family so I know he'll have a blast playing with everyone in California. Sad for us, happy for him. We will miss him!
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