Cyprus just crossed the 6 month mark.  It would be cliche for me to say that the time has flown by, but cliches are cliches for a reason.

I have enjoyed every minute of having Cyprus in my life, and I really can’t imagine what my life was like before him.  Taking care of small babies really seems to be my forte.  I love when he sleeps on me.  I love how he looks over the top of the carrier at what I am doing.  I love how he gets warm and sweaty in bed next to me at night.  I love how he smiles and giggles and laughs.  I see more and more of his personality coming out, and I know that I have some fun times ahead of me.

When I a nice enough to share Cyprus with his daddy, I get to see how cute he is and I want him back.  Look at my two men chilling together.  Cyprus is zonked out while daddy reads a book.

I tell you that I will never get tired of posting photos of sleeping babies.

Cyprus developed a penchant for paper over the past month.  Daphne did this at about this age as well.  Anytime he can get his hands on paper, he tries to eat it.  He will eat the mail or books or anything that he can get his hands on.  I think it is really kind of fun to watch him enjoy it so much–even if it is kind of odd.  Here he is eating the health insurance bill.

Cyprus has been teething big time lately.  He has been chewing on everything he possibly can.  He has been chewing hard vegetables, teething rings and the pedal to Daphne’s new bike. He turned 6 months on December 30th, and celebrated by staying up all night and cutting his first tooth!  I can see that he has a second tooth not too far behind. He is on the way to eating solid foods.

December has been kind of a crazy month for us around here.  As is traditional, we went to my sister’s house for Thanksigiving.  The feast was amazing, and we made it back just in time for December to start.  Everyone was sick and not feeling well for a while after we got back, so we had a pretty low-key start.  One very notable thing that I have not mentioned before was the fact that Jared and I celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary on the 4th.  We spent it taking care of sick kids and our sick selves.

The holidays were a little crazy for us.  We celebrated by doing as much as we could to keep the season bright as the days got more dark.

I finally learned how to make shortbread.  Daphne helped me make a batch that she took to Iron Chef night and it was fabulous.

We had a little get together on the solstice.  It was not meant to be a party, but we had dinner with some good friends and watched the movie “Earth”.  It was fun to be in such good company. Daphne became quite the expert cookie maker.  She helped Rebecca make cookies during dinner.

Papa Bob came up the weekend before Christmas and brought Christmas for both of the kids.  It was a huge hit.  Cyprus had fun trying to eat the paper off his gifts.

Daphne also had fun opening her gifts.

Papa Bob loved coming up to visit the kids.  He is such an awesome Papa for our kids.

On Christmas Eve we went out to Jared’s mom’s house.  I cooked dinner and we did a little gift exchange.  We even got it together enough to make some doughnuts for Santa.  It has been such a long time since I got a chance to just hang out with the kids and their Yaya, so I enjoyed myself immensely.

On Christmas day, we all stayed home.  I cooked and we invited friends over for a nice dinner.  It was so nice to eat and make merry and enjoy each other’s company.

We got a nice little surprise for the end of the year.  We got four inches of snow the other day.  The forecast said something about a little snow–maybe a half inch or something.  Four inches later we were all out playing in it.  Daphne even got the hang of throwing snowballs.  She even asked me if I would help her make a snowman, but that was when it was really starting to melt.

Daphne wasn’t totally thrilled because she thought it was cold.

Cyprus was happy to enjoy it as long as he got to stay close to me.  It was his first experience in the snow.

Targy thought the snow was amazing.  She enjoyed running around in it so much.  She thought it was her mission to eat every last bit of it.

I fulfilled some lifetime goals this month.  I made marshmallows AND caramels for the first time.  What is better, I put them together and made some Scotch Kisses.  Oh was I one HAPPY mama.

Oh and I got some help with the cleanup.

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