Lips

I finally got a video of Johanna saying "lips." It's so cute.

Christmas Tree

Last weekend we went to Spilker Tree Farm and got our Christmas tree. We met Jeff, Natalie, Morgan, Joel & Kelli there. It was cold but not too bad. We all found our perfect tree fairly quick. Jonathan picked out our tree this year- a 7 ft. big, fat tree.

We got to warm up inside with hot cider, hot chocolate, and popcorn. Mmm, yummy. Jonathan took mom for a ride on the tractor before we left.

Jgirl's vocabulary list

Johanna has recently started to use many more words. She doesn't talk a lot but when she does it's fun to see what new words she can use. Here's the rundown on words she's using:
dadda
momma
ball
art
purple
hat
pop
blue
more (in sign language)
milk (in sign language)
what's that?
uh-oh
that
I did it
apple
turtle
socks
mooo (for a cow sound)
baaa (for a sheep sound)
be-boo (for belly button)
up
and lips.
There are a few more words that she uses but they are open to interpretation at this point. I have been trying to get video of her saying "lips" because it is so cute. I crack up every time she says it. I will keep trying and hopefully get it posted. Thankfully she hasn't learned to use "no" yet. She just laughs at us every time we tell her no. I'm not sure which is worse.

This is So Cool!

Jonathan has recently started reading. It is so awesome to listen to him sound out words and read an entire book to us. I finally got some video footage of his newest milestone.

Thanksgiving in Kansas

We had a great time in Kansas with family for Thanksgiving. Our first stop was in Atchison, Kansas at cousin Chad and Meridith's house. They have a beautiful turn of the century home that was big enough to host about 20 family members. Oddly enough we didn't take many photos while we were home for Thanksgiving, but we do have this picture of Pops and Johanna sitting together after enjoying the Thanksgiving feast. Thursday evening we headed to Papa and Grandma Wally's house. We had Thanksgiving with them on Friday. Everything was quite yummy. We'll see everyone in about a month for Christmas.