A Busy, but happy time of year

The Hartig family has been on the move!  A few weeks ago we had our pictures taken by a professional photographer.  I love the pictures, they turned out great.  I just wish they were not so expensive.  Although we cannot afford to by copies of these images for or our loved ones, we did get watermarked copies that I thought I would share with you here.

P.S.  If you want to see the finished product, without the watermark, I guess you will have to plan a trip to visit us in MD!!!  :)

Santa Visit

Yesterday we made our annual trip to Annapolis Mall to see Santa.  The girls were pretty excited this year; we had been talking about visiting Santa for a little over a week.  We were trying to reduce the fear, and answer questions about him and basically prepare ourselves for what reaction we might get.  I asked the girls what they were going to tell Santa they wanted for Christmas, to which both of them screamed "PRESENTS!"  After I stopped laughing, I said, "Yes, but what kind of presents", to which they stated "Blue presents"!  I probed further and asked, "OK, what kind of blue presents" and finally was told a blue teddy bear.  Upon revealing their desire, Lexi switched to red, a red teddy bear.  So when it was time to tell Santa what they wanted, they explained they wanted blue and red teddy bears, and then proceeded to stand there and not move.  They were expecting him to give them a teddy bear right then and there.  He had to explain that they had to way until he came to their house on Christmas Eve and deliver the gifts to all the good girls and boys.  The responded with "I don't want to wait". Ahhh to be a kid, with no filter.

It was a visit filled with many moments that made us laugh, and it ended with what we think is their best Santa photo yet!  Happy Holidays everyone!  We hope you are all enjoying this time of year and spending lots of time with the ones you love!

Funny Lexi Moments from the last few months

The other day we are driving in the car and we came to a red light, so I stopped.  Alexa says "hey Mom are we out of gas?"  I just couldn't help but laugh!  We have never run out of gas.....don't know where she got that.

A few weeks ago we are sitting at the dinner table and Lexi lets out a huge "UUUGGGHHH".  So I ask her what is wrong and she says "I'm frustrated"  (I laughed a little hearing that).  I asked her why she was frustrated and she says "Because Izzy is driving me bananas"!!  I nearly fell off my chair with that one!

Finally, we were at the doctor the week before Thanksgiving because both the girls were sick.  Just as we are being called back by the nurse Alexa says, "I have to go potty", naturally that was followed by Izzy saying "me too".  So I proceed to take them down the hall to the potty and Alexa is sitting on the toilet doing everything but peeing.  The nurse had knocked on the door already to let us know what room we were in once she finished.  I would estimate she had been on the potty for 5-7 minutes, and I was getting impatient.  I said to her "Alexa, you need to hurry up the doctor is waiting for us."  She says to me "ok Mom, just slow down".  I find little humor in this remark at the time, and say "Alexa, I am losing my patience" and to that she responds "I know Mom, we need to get more"!  How could I not laugh at that!  Talk about lightening up a stressful moment!

Yesterday I asked the girls if they knew where we were going this weekend, and Lexi replies "yeah, we are going to Grandma Q and Papa Bill's house.  We are going to see Grandma Q because I miss her so much".  I nearly cried it was so cute!