Monday, December 28, 2009

Baby Andrew Kip Chase

Weighing in at over 9 lbs, Baby Andrew was born on December 27th, 2009.

Congratulations Nicole and Kip. He is adorable!

Alice & Jack playing together at the hospital. They are so cute together and love to laugh and chase each other around.

Andy trying to familiarize Alice with a real baby.


Alice admiring baby Andrew

What an adorable family! Congrats Again!

Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas Day 2009

Santa sure found his way to Alice this Christmas. . . Let's just say it was a definite challenge trying to make room for all the new toys in our small house!


This dropped jaw face was Alice's reaction to every gift she opened. She was so excited and wanted me to open all the toys right after opening.

Alice with her little people castle. Thanks Uncle Jay & Auntie Cait!

Christmas is just better with Elmo slippers. . .

Alice loves to "color paper" on her new easel she got from Grammy and Grandpa, and we have lots of new play food for her kitchen.

Merry Christmas!

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Merry Christmas


Love, Tara, Alice, Andy, & Baby Girl #2!

Bouncy Time


Andy was able to take the day off on Wednesday so we headed to Monkey Joe's for a little bouncing fun with Alice. Andy did all the bouncing and carrying -- I just took the photos! Alice had a blast and left saying, "fun, fun, fun, fun."





Miss Confident :)


Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Monday, December 21, 2009

Scary Santa!

When the Timme's called asking if Andy could play the role of Santa at their family gathering, he obviously couldn't resist. . .(remember the ostrich?). I brought Alice over for her last minute chance to ask Santa for something great this year, but she was a little terrified of her daddy with a beard. Poor thing! Afterwords, she was very curious saying, "Bye Santa," and "Santa Comin?" She just wanted to visit with Santa from a safe distance :)

Thursday, December 17, 2009

It's a GIRL!


Alice is going to have a little sister! We are beyond excited! We took Alice to the ultrasound today and she enjoyed watching her little sister on the TV. She kept saying, "baby tummy" and looking from my stomach back to the TV screen. A couple of time she called it a "doggie" or "Gonzo" (I quickly informed her there will be NO more dogs in our house :)

We are so thankful everything is looking well with baby girl #2. She is definitely a blessing to our family.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

What Alice has been up to. . .

It's hard to believe Alice will be turning 2 in about 1 month! Crazy. Lately, she's been growing up so fast. She has taken a great interest in coloring. She'll sit with her crayons and markers and create so much artwork :) Thankfully, Crayola developed the Color Wonder products which only write on the paper. This is great for church, restaurants, and coloring on the couch :)

Miss Carrie also had a Christmas party for all of Alice's daycare friends. Alice's face is so red in these pictures from running around CRAZY the entire night with her buddies. She loves all her daycare friends and calls them all by name. She especially loves "baby Teegan." Hopefully, that's a sign she's ready to be a big sister :)

Alice trying to tickle (or push) baby Teegan in the front. Let's hope it's just tickling.

And for the biggest news yet. . . . Alice is taking to potty training! It's only been a few days so I'm not expecting anything other than baby steps, but the last three nights, she's been pottying on the potty! Never thought such a thing would make me so excited :) Hopefully, over Christmas break, we'll make some more progress, but for now it's just familiarizing her with the process. It's hilarious to see how proud she is when she accomplishes the task. Her face just beems (as you can see in the picture).


Other than that, we've been reading Christmas books to learn all about Santa-- not sure how much she'll understand this Christmas, but by the looks of things already, she is going to be one spoiled child :)

Lil' Irish Dancer

Alice has been dancing to this CD since she was about 3 months old (I'm sure you can find the post if you look WAY back). Anyway, she now knows how to go to the player and turn it on. She'll then grab both of our hands and make us stand up and dance with her in the kitchen. She loves it! And what moves she has. . . . check them out!