Christmas Eve

Charlie was very sick during Christmas.  His asthma causes small colds to become pretty nasty very quickly.  We were in the pediatrician's office on Christmas Eve morning.  Charlie ended up spending the holidays on an oral steroid, along with albuterol and budesonide via the nebulizer every few hours.  It was a little difficult, but we made it through.  We ended up staying home for Christmas Eve, and each opened one gift.  Charlie was so excited for Christmas to come, but managed to go to sleep pretty easily!
Anyway, here are shots from our Christmas Eve:

 Matthew slept through it all.

 Martin got Ticket to Ride- the card game version.  Ticket to ride is an AWESOME game, and I hope the card game lives up to the same standards.  We haven't gotten a chance to play it yet, though!

Charlie got Mommy a pair of earrings.  Every time I wear them he says, "You're wearing the earrings I gave you!"

Loki got a new bed.  He usually ends up shredding them at some point, but so far its still in great shape. I think that is because the cat took it over and claimed it as her own!

Gingerbread

I bought two gingerbread kits this year.  Charlie had so much fun decorating them.  By far, our little conductor thought the train was better!  The only unfortunate thing was that I didn't plan for a place to keep them and they ended up hogging 1/3 of our table for the entire holiday season.  

The boys

Here are a few shots of the boys hanging around the house in our jammies one morning.  I love the shots of them looking at each other!

Cousins

Charlie's cousin Rylee came over to play one day.  They had a great time playing and it was so nice to get to spend time with her!

Nagymama and Nagyapa Vist

 Martin's parents were kind enough to make the drive out to visit us after Matthew was born.  They made the drive as a day trip!  It must be an easier drive without kids ;-)

Here are a few shots from their visit:

The New House's Progress

We are still in progress on the new house!  We have a basement (this was taken a week after Matthew was born.  The floor in the basement is poured, we have a "tarp roof" over the basement to keep snow out and everything is ready for the house to come!  We are expecting to have it delivered mid to late February and move in sometime in early March.

 Charlie and Daddy checking out our well.  I can NOT wait to drink water that doesn't taste like Chlorine!

 This will be our front yard!  Because it has been unseasonably warm, the grass was actually growing under the hay in December!

Matthew L. Szinger's Arrival (was almost 3 months ago!)

I am *finally* getting around to posting photos from the past few months! 

Here are a few pictures from Matthew's birth.  It was an amazing experience.  I delivered with the help of a midwife, and was again able to go completely natural (aside from having my water broken).  Labor was only a few hours and I didn't have to push for more than 2 or 3 minutes.  

It was the middle of the night, and we are a group of people who like to be in bed early.  Cara, Mom, Aunt Sissy and Martin were all there again this time!  We took a bunch of "group" shots of everyone together after the birth, but I was breastfeeding, so I'll spare you those images!  This means, however, that the only photos of the other people there were the following.

My mother and Matthew:

 This one of Martin:

This one of Cara:

 And this one of Aunt Sissy:

Charlie was so thrilled when they came to bring me home.  Several times over the next week he said, "Thank you Mommy for you and Matthew coming to home with me."