100 mile club!

How is it possible that Eliza gets cuter every week? "She is so awesome," as Austin says.

Austin started swimming pretty regularly in the beginning of December. He decided to take the 100 mile swim challenge at our local YMCA. Most people take a year or more to complete the challenge, Austin did it in 3 months! Upon completetion of the challenge, they gave him this great shirt. There are very few people that have completed the challenge at our YMCA. I'm pretty proud of this guy.

I can't believe Eliza is almost 5 months old! She started eating cereal this week. She's been eyeing everyone's food for a week or more now. She was very excited to try cereal and actually seems to really like it and I like to watch her eat it. She is so cute whatever she is doing.

Is it embarrassing to admit that my boys had never made paper snowflakes before today? They checked out a book from the library last week about making snowflakes. It was so fun to see how excited they were when they unfolded their snowflake! Can't believe we didn't do it sooner. (Jensen's snowflake is hung up on the wall behind him. Kind of hard to see I guess. He's holding the snowflake book.)

Luke got a little button-happy with our camera this week. The shots didn't turn out as bad as I thought they would be...

We got these breastplates at the dollar store as well as the plastic sword in Luke's hand. Gotta love the Dollar Store. Months of entertainment (we've had them 3 months and of course they are all falling apart) for $2. Not bad!

Luke is addicted to puzzles. He does a few a day. He doesn't do the 12-piece ones, he does the 100-piece ones. He's starting to get pretty bored of the 15 puzzles we have, so he just does them all at once!