Tea for Two

A few weeks ago we celebrated Auntie Tessa and her soon-to-come baby girl with a tea party baby shower! Evelyn was very thoughtful and took a nice long nap, but she did get up in time to enjoy some presents, dessert, and fun with her Auntie :)

The delicious spread!

Friends and Family

Playing Baby Scategories

The multitasking "mommies" hanging baby's clothes

Helping Auntie Tessa open her gifts, and helping mommy write everything down...

Having fun!

We are so excited for Baby Johnson to come in April (or March!)

Aquababies

Evelyn has just begun her second session of Aquababies! Here are some pictures from the end of her last class in December.

Two quack-quacks!

This move always gets a lot of smiles :)

Working on kicks...

Cuteness overload!!!

And in they go!

Little Tourist

During our time off work between Christmas and the new year, we brought Evelyn to some great Chicago museums.

First, we visited the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Can you tell it's a little bit humid in the butterfly garden? 

Evelyn wasn't sure if the stuffed animal displays were scary or interesting. 

We took several turns down the FAST slide (notice: 2 parents spotting!)

 And we got to walk in a winter wonderland back to the car. 

We also went to the Museum of Science and Industry. Can you spot the tractor driver below? 

Christmas, Christmas, Christmas

We have had a busy but wonderful week celebrating Christmas! Here are a bunch of pictures of what we've been up to.

We visited lots of aunts, uncles and cousins on the 22nd.

Aunt Amy pulled out lots of great toys!

 Getting the little girls together for a picture proved to be a challenge.

 Sharing grapes with Morgan

 Saying hi to Stella

 Evelyn and Morgan did some pajama clean up at the end of the night. 

We spent Christmas Eve with the Almquists. Here's Evelyn working on the elf puzzle, a family tradition!

 Playing with the magna doodle and Auntie Tessa (and Magnus).

 EIEIO with Uncle Dave

We spent Christmas Day at home. Good morning!

 "NO JAX!"

 New wheels from the Nelson family

 Relaxing with some books and Auntie Maureen

 A little face time with the California family

 Merry Christmas!

Christmas Begins!

Last weekend we began our Christmas celebrations with a visit to Aunt Rudy's house. Evelyn's favorite things were...

The Stairs

The dancing figurines that fit together like puzzle pieces

Reading her new book

and, the "meow meow!"

We even managed to get a nice family picture. 

We also finally decorated our tree! Evelyn got the hang of putting the ornaments on, but also enjoyed instructing Daddy on where he should put them.

So Behind!

As we are getting ready for Christmas, we needed to catch up on the past few weeks!

We celebrated Thanksgiving with the Nelsons. Evelyn had fun with her cousins Victoria & Alexandra.

We even got a tuba concert!

Later that weekend the Almquists came to visit. I think these pictures of Evelyn and her Uncle Dan are pretty hilarious. 

 A picture from our Christmas card photo shoot... 

We went to the Kohl Children's Museum for a birthday party... (Becki, does this picture look familiar?)

 Evelyn turned 18 months on December 2!