I don't have time to write a whole update (I'm just waiting for Rae to fall asleep for her nap and then it's off to sleep I go!) but here's a picture update! Blaise is starting to smile a lot and he sure loves his daddy. He's more willing than Rae was to just sit on our lap or cuddle. Rae still loves being a sister (a smothering one!) and she is starting to use mommy's excuses to get out of stuff. "No mama, I have things in my hand"..."no mama, I do that right now". Sigh, it's cute but annoying. Anyway, things are pretty good and I will go into some of the detail someday - I promise.

Maybe if I post a couple of pics each day I'll catch up sometime! Here are the kiddos the day before Christmas before church (or after, I don't remember).


Here's the gang in Vegas. Roy's sister and her family and his mom and her husband.

I realized that Roy has all of the Christmas pics on his laptop (which I am using right now) so here is a pic of us doing the nativity scene on Christmas Eve at my parents. No, Rae is not meant to be our daughter - I think she was a shepherd, but she wanted to be in the pics with the rest of the family. I'll post more later.

So we got back from vaction Monday afternoon. We went to Vegas the 29th-31st. We left Sunday afternoon but I got sick on the way home so we stayed the night in Bakersfield. I'm glad we are done travelling! And vacations aren't as relaxing when you have a newborn. I think I would have actually recovered better if I could have just stayed home. But it was great to be at my brother's wedding and see some family.

I got mastitis again - the day we got home - but it seems to be all cleared up now. But it really messed us up and we are still trying to get everything unpacked and back to normal. And Roy is really anxious to start going to his office everyday. I spent the morning alone with both kids today and I think I'm ready to do that everyday. I just got so used to having someone around all the time, so it's scary to think that I'll be alone with them all day. Blaise is napping right now and Rae is very happy to have a nice quiet house all to herself. I better get going on the huge list of things I have to do. I promise to post pictures soon and write a bit about all the other stuff that has been going on. Oh, one thing I must mention (because Rae was doing it just now) is that Rae is really into nursing her dolls. She even covers up with a blanket and lifts up her shirt. Unfortunatly she refers to nursing as "baby suck on my boobie". Sigh, we'll have to work on that.