Changes

Regardless of what I tell them, my girls continue to grow.  Lots of exciting changes in the Knight home.

Kylie is losing so many teeth!  I feel like everytime I turn around she has another loose tooth for Matt to pull out.  She now has lost a total of 6 teeth (with at least 2 others that are loose) and only 2 of them have grown in so it gets harder to eat everyday!  I must also mention that our tooth fairy is very unreliable...she keeps forgetting...darn tooth fairy!

Megan remains mostly the same.  She is also getting a few loose teeth but has yet to lose them.

Molly is as silly as ever and now that Noelle is becoming mobile, Molly is showing her the ropes and they are quite the pair!  Mischevious little people!  Molly also decided several weeks ago that she wanted to be potty trained...so she is!  She just decided and did it.  We are so proud of her and her desire to be so independent.  She has been such an easy girl to potty train...much easier than her big sisters.

My little Noelle is growing super fast.  She is sitting up in the tub, eating solid foods (generally with the help of her sisters), crawling and beginning to pull herself up onto things.  I really feel like she is too little to be doing all this.  My sister just had a baby girl and I feel like it wasn't so long ago Noelle was not even able to hold her head up.  But alas, here she is, my human vaccum cleaner, crawling around and finding the tiniest little things on the floor that go right into her mouth.  She has also started falling asleep in random places, like her jumperoo...is it terrible that I think that is so adorably cute?!?!?!?!

Dear Mother Nature,
Please slow down the sands of time so I can keep my babies for just a little longer...

Gingerbread house

We were so behind this year!  We always decorate some type of gingerbread house or village for Christmas but we didn't get to it this year until New Years Day!  The girls had loads of fun creating and decorating and made quite a mess while doing it.

 The house on the left is the house Kylie decorated in her GT class and the one on the right is the one the girls made together.

Fiesta Texas

Some of our good friends had some complimentary passes to Fiesta Texas that they got when they bought season passes and they gave them to us.  We went on New Years Day and we had so much fun.  The girls loved riding all the rides and even Molly rode them all.  She did not want to be left out of anything!  By far they all loved the Taz swing ride the best although Molly was very upset when I wouldn't get back in line for the little rollercoaster.  Matt and I took turns riding with the girls and we had a good time too.

And then there was the ice skating.  They had transformed the bumper car area into a skating rink.  There was no ice, but the floor was covered with wax and we used real ice skates.  Kylie and Megan loved it.  Kylie caught on pretty quick but Meg fell quite a bit.  They both loved it and didn't want to leave.  Molly insisted on getting her own skates which didn't work very well.  I ended up basically dragging her around by her arms and she just kinda hung there.  It was rather difficult since I was on skates as well...talk about an accident waiting to happen!  :)  So much fun!

The weather was gorgeous.  The sun was out but it was nice and cool.  Noelle almost slept the whole time we were there and stayed in the stroller.

Thank you to the Hardmans for a lovely day!

Family Pictures

We had our family pictures taken with Matt's family the first part of December and I was so happy with how they turned out.  The photographer, our friend Krista, did a fabulous job and our girls were great too!  I think they were looking and smiling in almost all of them!

Kylie is 7, Megan is 5, Molly is 2 and Noelle is 5 months in these pictures.

Christmas 2010

For Christmas this year we invited 4 families over to spend Christmas Eve with us.  We played games, ate yummy food, enjoyed being with each other, acted out the nativity and made lots of noise!  We are so glad these families came over and made some memories with us!  We want to make this a Knight family tradition!  I wish I would have taken more pictures but I didn't.  I may need to steal some from the Lilywhites.

After everyone left, the girls opened their one Christmas Eve gift...pajamas!  This year I made them myself and they all matched...even a little nightgown for Noelle.

CHRISTMAS MORNING

Kylie got to go shopping at school with the points she gets in her GT class.  She used her points to buy things for me, Matt, and her friend at school.  What a sweet girl.  She was so excited to give Matt this Santa candle for his desk.

Matt (with the help of his dad) built this amazing barbie doll house for the big girls.  They LOVE it!  I got to decorate it and I am so happy with the way it turned out.  I think they will spend many hours playing with this house.   Molly got a smaller dollhouse too but we missed a picture of that, although the package was missing the people for her dollhouse!  Boo!

We spent Christmas day with Matt's family and had a wonderful time.  We talked about the true meaning of Christmas.  Matt's dad asked the girls, "What is Christmas all about?"  To which Molly promptly replied, "We get lots of presents!"  Oh, my Molly!  Good thing she is only 2.  :)  Kylie then set her straight that it was about Jesus and then tonight as Molly said her prayer before bed she said, "Thankful for Jesus' birthday." 

Merry Christmas!

Family

I love my family.  I love to have them visit and I love to visit them.  It is very unfortunate that we live so far away from each other.  My family lives in Montana and that is a 2-day (at least) drive from here.  My brother, Sam, just returned home from his mission in Canada at the beginning of November and I wasn't able to go see him so he flew down here...and my mom couldn't let him come alone so she came too!  We were thrilled!  Sam was so great with the girls.  Kylie and Megan were old enough when he left to still remember him and Molly thought she remembered him...Sam was her best friend within minutes of their arrival.  Sam played with the girls and took them to the park...I think I need a Sam with me all the time!  Molly was grumpy here because the big girls were riding their scooters and Molly didn't have one.

We took a trip to the fabulous San Antonio zoo one day.  The girls are always begging me to ride the train but I am always by myself  so we took advantage of the extra hands!  What a fun time.  It was a little chilly that day so there was hardly anyone at the zoo.  Bonus...until...

...the birds hadn't had much to eat that day.  So when we went in with the nectar we got attacked...and I mean attacked!  Kylie and Megan were both sobbing and I was pretty sure a bird was going to eat my hand.  Sam dumped his nectar on the ground but the birds still climbed on him.  And I was covered in birds...and the dumb zoo guy just stood there and watched...it was rather comical...after we escaped.

Okay, we totally cooked a lobster...it was sweet.  Sam served his mission by the ocean so he had fresh seafood a lot.  He kept raving about lobster and we had to try to cook one.  So we went to H.E.B and bought a live lobster...we named him Dinner.  For 20 bucks it was totally worth the experience, and it tasted good too!  Sam, of course, said he was a lobster cracking pro and we got to see him in action.

Waiting for Dinner to cook...

Look at all that meat.  It was super yummy and all the girls liked it.  Meg loved it!

Mom was so sad we cooked our lobster until she dipped him in butter!

Sam and I went to the temple while Grandma babysat.  Lovely time.

Oh Sam!  We miss you!

Sam wanted to see the Alamo since he hadn't been there for 8 years (when I got married).  It was a lovely cool evening and we were able to see the riverwalk all lit up as well.

We were so sad to see them go.  Hopefully they will come back soon!