Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays from the Bailey family! It's been a while since I blogged, and life is chugging along. Aiden is getting over a case of strep throat from last week, poor guy. Everyone else is well, for now :-) I'm finishing up all of my Christmas shopping and am really excited for Christmas this year. We've been really lucky (not to mention that Chuck is great with our finances) and the kids are going to be having the best Christmas they've ever had. I fully expect them to freak out on Christmas morning, lol.

  December is always a busy month for us with Chuck's birthday, Christmas, and then Ava's birthday. I can't believe my little girl is really going to be FIVE. How is that possible? It seems like yesterday that she was born, and now here she is, learning to read (she's doing it all on her own, it's amazing me!), helping me with EVERYTHING around the house, and being her general sassy self:-) Aiden is doing great in school academically--he's reading 60 page chapter books for homework and likes doing linear math equations at the breakfast table for fun (I wish I was joking, I regular am entertained by his morning chatter of, "Mom, 5 + X = 16, solve X. He's 6 years old!!). He is still having some anxiety issues with the social aspects of school, but we're working on it. Hopefully someday soon this trouble will be a distant memory.

 I'm excited for this month, not just for Christmas, but because we are also surprising the kids with the trip to Great Wolf Lodge on the first day of Christmas Break, and then heading to Lansing for an early Christmas with my family. The kids have no idea and they are going to be soooo happy! It will be the last time I see my sister before her baby girl is born too, so I am really excited for that as well! Have a wonderful holiday season, enjoy it all. I hope we get some snow soon, my monkeys are dying to go sledding, we only got to go once last year and they talk about it all the time! We're looking forward to some nice winter adventures, especially now that they are really old enough to stay out in the cold for a while and have fun!