Keeping up with the Kants

He's here! (and while maternity leave has been great and I am feeling fantastic, I have been terrible about getting anything updated on here). On February 18th, we welcome the newest member to our family, our son Booker. We had a c-section planned, and everything went great! No complications and he came out healthy and strong ( and peed on everyone!) It was an experience adjusting to two kids (and a dog) but I'd say now that we're 5 weeks out we've got a good groove going, and everyone is happy.  It helps that Booker is such a good baby!  He eats, sleeps, poops and repeats!  Here are some pictures to tide you over until my next post (hopefully not months!)  

It's so hard to believe that Christmas is seriously 5 days away.  Where did this year go?  Can't say that I'm ready for the big day, but luckily it's only a couple people and I can get it done this weekend, and I don't really need to go shopping to finish...yay for homemade gifts, right?  Erich and I kind of just bought ourselves the things we wanted...for him, a new mandolin.  For me, a new camera.  For us, a new printer.  Then our dishwasher broke last weekend, so add that to the list.  Ahh, the joys of home ownership!! We spent Thanksgiving with my sister and her family in Missouri, and that was a lot of fun.  Got some good pictures of her with her cousins, and a lot of her with their cat.  They loved each other...Erich was not a fan.  I think Harper's favorite part of the trip was playing dress up with Miss Kitty.  And visiting Santa! We made our kids wear ugly sweaters to go visit him before we left; it turned out pretty go...