The Ringenberg's

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Happy Valentine's Day

Julia and I had our friends over for the 2nd annual Valentine's and Cupcakes Party. Good time was had by all! Dad brought home roses for us girls and we had a special dinner at home on Saturday to celebrate because Kyle had to work on Valentine's this year.

Growing Up!

Two big milestones in Julia's life occurred in January and February. We cut her hair for the first time and converted her crib into a "big girl" crib.

While the haircut went flawlessly, we are dealing with a little less of a sleeping angel than we were before. Nothing tragic, just consistently shorter naps and earlier mornings. Leads me to the "what were we thinking" thought but as Kyle reminds me "she can't be in a crib forever." Really? Why not!?

Friday, January 15, 2010

Sesame Street Live!

Julia loves watching Elmo's World on Sesame Street so we couldn't resist when we heard they were coming to town. Great Grandma Brown took care of the tickets for Christmas and we all had a great time. During the finale I tried to warn Jules that it might be the last song - "No! One more song! One more song!"

In the middle of the night a week after the show she woke up wet - first time for a long time - and was pretty upset about it. We were sitty on the potty and she said "I got my panties all wet. . ." Suddenly she brightened and giggled "Big Bird was there, Cookie Monstor was there! They were upside down. They're so silly!" Clearly she had quite the dream going on! She is still talking about that dream a few days later!

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Christmas Snow

We got hit with 15 inches of snow on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day here in Omaha. It was just like the scene from Christmas Story - branches covered in ice and tons of snow on the ground. We had a 4-5 foot drift all along our backyard - perfect for tunneling!

Unfortunately its only been warm enough for a day or two since then :( But on one of those warmer days Julia and Kyle built a snow fort & tunnel - and had a great time! Julia loved eating the snow and making faces at Mom through the glass.

Julia throwing snow in Dad's face.

Yes it was clean snow. .

Friday, January 1, 2010

Christmas Cousin Fun

Mallory is 3 1/2, Julia 2 1/2 and Garrett 1 1/2. They are becoming quite the clan. We probably should enjoy this age when they remotely listen to what we'd like and gladly jump on the sled together for a photo op when we suggest it, say cheese when we say and give hugs etc on command. Before long they will be hiding out in the basement playing and won't want us down there!