And then there were Three!

Our new little sister, Maggie June, arrived on February 19th and we are so thankful for her!  It has been so much fun welcoming her into our family and we love being big brothers together!  Since we're not just the Mayra boys anymore, Mom created a new blog for our family - please visit us at the link below from now on :-)

http://mayrafamily.blogspot.com/

Happy 6th Birthday Noah!

For my birthday, Dad took me and three of my friends to the Chicago Auto Show after school and then we came back to our house for hot dogs, french fries, birthday cake and lego creations!  It was awesome and I had a blast!

Helpers

Koen and I became roommates last month to free up the nursery for our little sister.  I helped Dad paint the wall in our bedroom and then put together our bunk beds.  We love sharing a room!

 We also helped Dad shovel off the back deck after our big snowfall...but mostly just threw snowballs at each other :-)

Christmas in the U.P. - Part 2

More skating and sledding!

Our skating crew - Miss Amy with Max and Romy, and Daddy with me and Koen!

I'm slicked back and ready for the MTU basketball game!

Christmas in the U.P. - Part 1

We headed north for Christmas again this year and enjoyed every day of our two-week stay.  There was actually a fair amount of snow, at least enough for sledding, skating, and snowshoeing so we were happy :-)  It was a very Merry Christmas indeed!

The Johnson family came over for our annual Christmas get-together and we started a new generational picture...the kids of the kids!

Christmas Eve at Great-Grandma Glo's was wonderful!

Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday Jesus!

Check me out folks, I'm not in a stroller this year!

Goodbye to our Buddies

Our pals Asher and Amri moved to MI on the same day we left for our 2-wk stay in Hancock over Christmas.  We're sad that they aren't in Chicago anymore and miss them already, but we're very happy for them and excited for visits!

Chicago Christmas Activities

Baking, of course!  We love to help Mom.

Winter Wonderfest at Navy Pier was a blast as usual.  Koen got to go on a lot more rides this year and I went on all the adult rides by myself since I am tall enough now.  It was awesome!  Mom really wanted to join me, but not with the baby in her belly.  Next year!

The boys skating - Koen's first time!

My school Christmas program

We surprised everyone by stopping mid-song and turning to our partner for a dance!  I'm in front in the middle dancing with the girl in the red dress, Mia.  As you can see, the parents were loving it and flashing pictures like crazy so it was hard for Dad to get a close-up :-)