the night before Christmas...

Holidays are so much more fun when you have kids! The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of Christmas parties, Santa, trains, and family. Santa was not a hit with Emme (major tears), and had a lukewarm response from Noah this year. He is very curious about the story about the birth of Jesus so we've been answering lots of "why ?" regarding that (actually, about everything!). Emme is just continuing to change. She loves clapping, waving, dancing to music, and is starting to stand up to her brother more & more. She lets him know how unhappy she is if he tries to take anything from her! She says "umma" and "ma-ma" (food in Korean) pretty clearly, and the rest is still a guess. One of my favorite things now is that Noah watches out for her. Whenever we go anywhere or get anything, he always asks for an extra for Emme and remembers to take turns with her. He is always either singing or talking. Always. They are starting to play together more, and the very sight of them playing warms my heart :). Here's pictures of our holiday season thus far...








I had the kids exchange their gifts to each other Christmas eve...Emme got a little pig and Noah a puppy. So soft and cuddly. Afterwards we went on a walk around our neighborhood to see all the beautiful lights.


Here's Emme getting her groove on