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.

The weather has been gorgeous this Thanksgiving holiday! It has been so nice to spend time outside at the end of November! We even ventured on a family hike, which was quite funny actually. Before we get on the trail, both kids were saying they were hungry. Thankfully, I packed lots of snacks. We only made it about a half mile before we had to park the crew and eat lunch. But it was a great day!

We got to spend this Thanksgiving with my entire family which is always a blast. It is crazy and loud but tons of fun! The kids all love being together and I am so thankful for all these people!

(I actually woke up with a swollen eye on Thanksgiving morning and found myself at the urgent client before Thanksgiving dinner. But all is well. It was just a stye and the medicine has helped so much. It reminded me how thankful I am that I have great health care and we have access to medicine so easily.)

I am very proud of this picture. It’s actually harder for me to take pictures of my own family then my clients so I tossed the camera to Seth while the rest of us jumped up and down like maniacs to get these kids to smile and stay still.

His face is killing me in this picture….and yes, he is that skinny.

Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving from The Nickersons!