Colin's trip to the dentist

 After talking it up for a few weeks, Colin was ready for his big trip to the dentist...for the first time!

The pediatric dentist office was really neat, it had safari animals all over the place.

We got a 7 am appointment so there was no waiting, which would've actually been okay with Colin and Maggie because they had all sorts of toys in the waiting room.

We got called back really quickly and Colin hardly had any time to adjust before he was thrown into the dentist chair.  They only allowed one parent back with him in the room, but Maggie and I were right outside, providing all sorts of support!

 He was good to go until she tried to tilt the chair back...

that kindof freaked him out a bit...

 Yikes! Get me out of here, Dad!

 Then he relaxed a little bit, watched some Curious George and let the hygienist clean his teeth, floss, and we even got some xrays done.

 Maggie was busy watching the fish and being a crazy 20-month-old right outside the door

Colin did great getting his xrays, too.  

He got to sit in my lap, which helped a ton.

Overall, no cavities and a clean set of teeth.

They did tell us to start saving some money for orthodontic work later on, cause apparently his baby teeth are pretty close together (they prefer for them to have gaps in between them) and his permanent teeth will be much bigger, thus, not having enough room to fit in properly.

Way to go, Colin!  Way to be brave at the dentist!

Books at bedtime

Colin is getting to be the king of stalling at bedtime.

Somehow it takes us FOREVER to get him to bed and to stay in bed.  Hopefully this is just a phase that he will grow out of in a week or so, but in the meantime...

One of his favorite stalling tactics is reading lots of books.

He has become quite fond of reading to Maggie.

It is the sweetest thing.

Makes my heart burst with pride...

We just adore the sibling love these 2 have already...

We are just praying it will continue...

Much better

We are feeling much better now, thank you to everyone that has been checking in on us.

Just as quickly as you can start feeling bad, you get better, thank goodness!

We've been enjoying some extra time on the weekends having Brian and I both home.

Still working on little projects around the house...We'll probably be doing that until we're 80 years old!

Here's some highlights of our evenings...

We've been blowing some bubbles out in the garage...

 Maggie's been practicing up on her Zumba on the Wii...

 Colin's been helping me cook dinner...

(which somehow looks like canned dog food in the picture, but it was really good chicken enchilada pasta, I promise!)

And the kids have been enjoying their time at night hanging out

These two just LOVE doing what the other is doing...good and bad.

I call them Pete and Repeat.

Good thing they're cute! :)

Winter sickness

The sickness bug got us...and it got us good.

Maggie was pretty darn sick the week of Christmas, with a stinkin' fever of 102-104 degrees for 7 days.  We just couldn't get rid of it.

Finally the doctor agreed to put her on an antibiotic and we immediately saw relief.  But, not until she passed the bug on to Colin.

Colin was pretty darn sick the week of New Years.  He didn't have quite as high of a fever, but both of them had the nastiest sounding cough and weren't really sleeping (at all!)

So, we had some cranky, tired, sick kids paired up with some cranky and tired parents.

Somehow Brian and I have managed to avoid it all, which we are pretty proud of considering both of them just wanted to cuddle the entire time they were sick and we had direct coughing, sneezing, and snot wiping all over us.

My mom came into KC to watch Colin this past week (seriously so thankful for her help!) cause Brian and I couldn't take any sick days from work.  I was by myself at the hospital because my co-worker had taken the week off, and Brian can't ever take time off around the holidays because that's his busy season.  

I think we are on the mend, finally.

We sent both kids to daycare for the first time in over 2 weeks.

We hope the rest of you are all healthy and well, I will try to get back to my regular posting soon!

These boots...

 were made for walkin.

So this past weekend I went out and purchased myself my first pair of boots!

Pretty exciting in my sheltered world!  I hate spending a  lot of money on clothes and boots can be fairly expensive.  However, they really are cute with outfits and a few weeks ago I bought a pair of special "peek-a-boot" socks to wear with my non-existent boots.  

I love them!  Wore them to church last night.

Guess who else loves them?

Maggie & Colin :)

 Lookin good Mags!

She could barely stand up in them, let alone walk...

Colin the cowboy!

Just another usual night at our house...

Merry Christmas from the Tesons

Merry Christmas!

We had such a wonderful few days, spending time together with our friends and family.

We spent almost all of Christmas Eve over at Brian's parents house.  It was, as usual, lots of fun, filled with Scattegories, good humor, good food, and awesome people!

I forgot my camera at home, but Katie promised me some of her pictures later.

We all got some great presents, especially our family,  because we got an IPAD!  Can't wait to use it.

The kids got some really cool games, baby dolls, pajamas, books, balloons and more.

We went off to 7 pm mass, and I was very anxious to see how Maggie was going to behave, especially since 7 pm is when she is normally asleep.  She ended up doing pretty well, and it wasn't very crowded in our pew.  Phew, feel like I dodged a bullet with that one!

We came home and set our camera to self-timer mode, because I was just determined to get a good picture of our family all dressed up for Christmas Mass.

The Teson Family - 2012

We quickly changed into some pajamas and got the milk, cookies, and carrots ready for Santa and his reindeer.  We even wrote Santa a note to tell him how much we love him and thanked him for coming to our house.  

 Colin and Mags, patiently waiting for Santa

Colin woke up at 6:40 am and hurried into our room, telling us about how he heard Santa's boots and him eating cookies last night.  

We grabbed Maggie (who didn't sleep at all that night because she was up coughing and crying, probably on her way to getting really sick) and headed downstairs to check out the tree.

Santa had filled our stockings and brought Colin a lego table and Maggie a play kitchen.

What great presents!

The kids played with their toys while I made cinnamon rolls and some egg/bacon muffins, then we tackled the rest of the gifts.

 Maggie got a Curious George movie

 Colin got a few new movies, too!

 Daddy got some tshirts and a personalized coffee mug and a new tie

 Colin's big gift from Mom and Dad was a Leappad game system.  

He got a Toy Story game, a Cars game (from Olivia) and a writing game

Colin and Daddy trying out his video game while Maggie took a morning nap.  She was exhausted.

We might just lounge around in our pajamas all morning.

Merry Christmas to you all!

Christmas Happenings...

Phew, we have been busy at the Teson household.

We went and visited Santa last week, went to Maggie's 18 month check up, made some Christmas cookies,  had our first snow-fall for Kansas City, Meemaw came into town to celebrate the Dudley side Christmas, and we are just beginning to rev-up with Christmas fun at our house.

Maggie's check-up went well, but she's just a tiny little peanut.

She's about 75% for her height, but only 3-10% for her weight (21 pounds).  I guess I am thankful she doesn't weigh too much since I pretty much am carrying her around everywhere still.

Colin and Daddy made some cookies last week, just for fun.

It went really well and I'm very glad Brian spearheaded that whole project.

Cutting out the cookie dough

 Taste-testing the frosting, of course.

 Showing off the decorated cookies 

(he only frosted a few because he needed to get to bed)

We got about 3 inches of snow up by our house on Thursday morning.
Colin was really looking forward to playing in it and building a snowman.

The drive to work that normally takes about 40 minutes (dropping the kids off at daycare and getting to work) took me over 2 hours that morning.  The wind was blowing about 50 miles an hour and made it almost impossible to see the roads.  Fun times!

 Brian and Colin hard at work shoveling our driveway

 Mags and I stayed inside making dinner and wearing Colin's slippers ;)

 The boys, all bundled up, ready to tackle the snow

 Maggie decided later on that she wanted to join in on the fun,

but only for about 2 minutes (literally!)

Took us longer to get all her snow-gear on that she ended up playing outside, oh well!

 Colin with his little brother snowman that he built

 Meemaw and Mag hanging out with CJ

 Tiff, Chad and Colin frosting some cookies

 Licking the extra sprinkles

(and Tiff and Chad laughing about Colin's finger choice!)

 The finished products

They were sooo yummy!

  Brian and Chad were playing outside in the snow (I swear they are just grown-up little kids!)

and they were throwing snowballs at our kitchen windows.

 Once again, Mags hung out inside, reading some cool books that Aunt Tiffey brought

 The much bigger snowman that the boys built in our backyard.

It's probably going to be there for months!

 It's pretty dang tall, probably 6'3" or so...

Later, we can inside and opened some gifts...

Some of the highlights were...

   Kansas City Royals BlueCrew package from Tiff and Chad

 Lots of fun new books!

 A set of Magna Tiles from Meemaw!

 Some cute PJ's and clothes, too!

We had some AWESOME prime rib roast that Meemaw made, mashed potatoes, asparagus, and dinner rolls.

And, once again, Maggie sat on the counter eating the cookies

(hey, if I can get some dishes done, it's worth it!)

We had a wonderful Dudley family Christmas!

Even Tiff and Chad's doggy Scooter came to visit.