Collins and Claire Roddy: December 2010

Merry Christmas to all! We hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and was able to spend time with their families. This was a very special Christmas for our family as you can imagine with the two new additions. God has blessed us in so many ways but most importantly by completing our family with Collins and Clarie. They spent their first Christmas at two very special places...at their Bear and GiGi's on Christmas day with the whole family and with their Nanny and Papaw Jimmy at Aunt Amy's (Paris) with seven cousins the day after Christmas. This was the twins first day long adventures and road trip from home! They did great..kept their daily routine and slept for the 2-hour trip to and from Paris. Needless to say, it was a joyous two days for everyone! Dad has also been home for the holidays and has really enjoyed his one on one time with them and so has mom (break for her)!

Lots of milestones have been accomplished over the holidays! The twins have found their hands, (daddy does not like their hands in their mouth but mommy lets them!) they are jabbering, laughing, and recognizing mommy and daddy's voices. They are happy babies as long as they are full, dry, napped, and entertained! Well correction...Claire needs to be entertained! The bouncy swing has been a life-saver for mommy when it comes to entertaining Claire. Thanks to Aunt Mel, my best friend, for suggesting it when she came to visit/help while Daddy went hunting. They have the Roddy sleeping gene too...they sleep anywhere from 9-10 hours at night. Praise God! This is His gift to mommy so she can reenergize for the next day.
We are sad that the holidays are coming to an end. Dad goes back to work and mommy is going back part-time.

Christmas at Aunt Amy's

Oh, I almost forgot, Claire was so excited about Christmas that she decided she was going to wake up and meet Santa...the child has been sleeping for weeks through the night but woke up at 1:00am with a big smile on her face! She wanted to see Santa!