Nickerson News

We spent the days leading up to Christmas and Christmas day with my family and then on Christmas night we headed to MASS for a week to continue the festivities.

This was the first year Abel really got excited about Christmas. I loved waking up early with him (while Sage and Seth were still sleeping) to look at all the wrapped gifts and talked about what could be inside. It was also a great teaching lesson about Baby Jesus. (on a side note: Sage is OBSESSED with Baby Jesus and has now named her baby boy doll Baby Jesus and sleeps with him at night.)

Love his reaction!

Sage got so excited because Abel was so excited.

Helping his sister feed her new baby monkey. Sage LOVES monkeys so what better than a baby monkey that makes noises and drinks a bottle.

Christmas continue at my parent’s house. The kids have so much fun together!

My parent’s got him a bike. I love that he is still so little he couldn’t figure that it was a bike until all the wrapping paper was off.

I must say he is already a pro (with the training wheels). I see the training wheels coming off very soon.

We said our goodbyes to my family, packed up all the gifts and headed to Boston. The kids do great in the car. We have come so far. Abel would SCREAM the entire 7 hours until he was about 18 months old. But now he loves driving there. He loves that he can stay up late and play his games. Sage is a dream and sleeps most of the time. Not without talking & signing her heart out for the first 2 hours. She can’t see Seth or I so she says “MOMMY & DADDY” every 5 minutes to make sure we are still in the car.

Grandma got the 3 girls matching dresses. Since they are all so close in age, we always try to get a picture of them together.

Grandma cleaning up her face before the mini photo shoot.

PIGS TAILS! I’m dying at her cuteness!!!

She was very suspicious of Papa’s tractor the first few days….

but this is her on the last day…

The girls loved sitting in the doll bed.

Morning stories with all the cousins.

Sage kept thinking she could rock herself in the baby crib.

Kissing cousins. Sage LOVED having 2 little girls to play dolls with all week.

Crazy to think I started blogging in 2006 when I was only a few weeks pregnant with Abel. I can’t get my head wrapped around that is it already 2012!

I have lots to share. I took a break in blogging to enjoy time with our families. We had a great vacation and I hope to get back to blogging more soon. I have lots of pictures to share from our little Christmas break, but for now here are just a few of me and my girl. She gives the best hugs! Thanks to my SIL for snapping these.

And yes, that is a pony tail in her hair!!!

With the help of my parents singing and my niece jumping behind me, I was able to get my December sibling picture.

I so wish we could have videotaped this series of pictures. My mom was singing her heart out and Sage loves a good song so she was dancing and shaking her little booty. It was a hilarious. She had a few teachers at Abel’s school dying laughing.

Abel had a cute little Christmas program today at school, so I used it as an excuse to dress my kiddos up in their Christmas gear and take some pictures. While Abel was a school, I snapped a few of our darling little girl who will be 18 months next week! I hate to even utter these words, but the terrible twos are slowly creeping into my little sweet sugar pie’s body. This morning, after many “no, Sage!” she threw herself on the floor and had her first big tantrum. Seth and I froze as we couldn’t believe our sweet baby girl was turning into a stubborn toddler right before our eyes.

But she is still pure sugar. Look at those eyes!

She looks like a little teacher in this picture. If you had sent us a Christmas Card, Sage thanks you. She is in LOVE with all the pictures and has officially claimed them as hers. In this photo, she is holding her cousins “Ruby & Libby”, but she knows all your kids names. She can’t get enough of all the cards.

An ornament she took off the tree. Our tree is quite interesting this year as we only decorated the top half because of a certain someone….

Tia came over to play today. These 2 love each other. Tia doesn’t understand why she can’t marry her cousin. She did inform me that she doesn’t like to kiss him, so I guess that is good news. They wanted to play dress up and since I didn’t have any girl dress up clothes, I put some of mine on Tia.