Lately

Well, we lost our camera cord for a week so I haven't been able to blog, but we found it! What have we been up to this week? Well, last weekend Juli flew down to visit us, we had so much fun!
We made a big batch of tamales (15 dozen to be exact!) to eat on Christmas Eve. Rachel and I went to buy the supplies and we were the only white people in the store and the lady making the masa (who didn't speak any English) gave us the weirdest look when we ordered 20 pounds of it. I kept saying "veinte" but she was talking very quickly and gesturing, but finally a man standing next to us interceded and told her to just give us the 20 pounds. She must have thought we were crazy, since all of the real Mexicans were only ordering half as much as us, but she just shrugged her shoulders and gave us the masa. Rachel and I laughed the whole way home. Then we put on some Christmas music and spent several hours making the tamales. Whatever we're going to do with 15 dozen tamales, I certainly couldn't tell you, but we definitely won't go hungry ;-)
We also took the boys swimming, it was a little colder than it was last summer, but they still loved it!

Cullen just lounged around most of the time

Here's Cullen eating cereal on the kitchen floor.

Jack didn't want to put down his spoon, even while he was drinking his bottle, he had an iron grip on it!

Bathtime! They get soooo many baths at Nana's house.

Playing peekaboo with tupperware

Jack is getting really, really close to standing and walking. He can sometimes stand for a few seconds on his own if you help him to balance initially. And he just LOVES to walk up and down the hallway holding onto somebody's hands. Here are some pictures of him trying out his new skills.

Sometimes he gets so excited that he forgets to balance, starts waving his arms wildly, and throws himself backwards

Here he is standing on his own

Brandon flew in on Thursday night and I am SO GLAD he got out of DC before the snow started falling. Most flights have been canceled and the people stranded there might be stuck until after Christmas. I am just thankful that Brandon made it out in time, it would have been terrible if we had to spend Christmas apart. Thank you Jesus!