Christmas photo bomb (part one)

Here's your monthly dose of Rose photos! :)


Rose is FINALLY over her brutal 18/19 month sleep regression. Hallelujah for turning 20 months!!  In exchange, however, we are now subject to non-stop pleas for "be-be!!," as in "please show me more baby videos on YouTube!"  We are trying to set a limit of ~5 minutes per day, and never in response to whining. (Setting limits is hard!)

"Be-be!"

Since my last post, I was basically just trying to survive at work. It was SOOOO busy! I'd work 10-11 hours, then come home for dinner and bedtime and work some more. UGH!  I'm hoping my new 2014 schedule will be an improvement, because I can't go back to that again.  I took Friday the 20th off of work, and it took a good 48 hours at the cabin for my cortisol levels to decrease to baseline for the first time in WEEKS.

Rose founds LOTS to do to occupy herself at the cabin. She spent lots of time with family, such as with Trula:

And with her cousins:

And with her Grandparents:

 (You'll just have to trust me that she spent time with Grandpa Fly too, because I somehow didn't get any pictures of them together!)


And she also spent a fair amount of time just walking around and singing to herself:

This photo looks like she's practicing for the catwalk!

She's also turned into a total ham when she knows I'm taking her picture!

Mike spent a lot of time ice fishing (with some help from Claire!).

I went out snowshoeing around the lake with Emily one day, and I also spent a LOT of time reading. It was wonderful!

We had a great time celebrating an early Christmas!

Delicious food, fun times with family, and lots of relaxing time. Ahhhhh, just what the doctor ordered!!

On Monday we headed back to "the cities" ....

(stay tuned for more!)