Catching Up {Christmas Edition}

I'm trying to play catch up on the blog today, so here's a look back at the end of December for us...
We went to go see Santa & boy was Dylan ready.  He had made out his list & was reciting it, ready to go...

Ready to rock his visit with Santa...

Blake, on the other hand, was a little more apprehensive about the visit to Santa.. 

Dylan rocking it....

Blake terrified.... 

Still adorable!!

Christmas Eve the boys got to open their two presents...new Christmas PJ's & Slippers...they were both pretty excited about both!

Christmas morning opening presents. Dylan's coveted "McQueen's Popped Tire"...

Blake had an important phone call.... 

After Christmas we headed to Kansas to celebrate with family.  One of the days we took the older boys sledding.  It was Dylan's first time sledding & boy did he love it!  You could hear him giggling the entire way down the hill!

Gettin' some air!! 

Snowball fight!! 

Sledding success!! 

(that hair speaks volumes)...

And speaking of hair...Blake was in dire need of his first "official" haircut...

He was a champ!  Now he looks so grown up!

Another Buddy Update

 

Buddy decided to make a nice mess and make snow angels in the kitchen.

 

He apparently flew in from the chimney and left footprints for us to discover.

 

The following day happened to be my birthday.  I had already decided that we would be stealing an idea my sister's elf had done..."bow the house"...the ENTIRE, and I mean ENTIRE house was covered in bows.  Everywhere you could imagine had a bow on it...the center of all the bows landed on one place...around Buddy in his chair.  He, himself, covered in bows...we are still finding bows everywhere...

The morning of my birthday, Dylan woke up to the bows and said Buddy must have done it for my birthday....but of course!....I'd actually never thought of it, but it sounded great!  After some birthday events, Dylan worked on his second loose tooth and in a matter of about 2 minutes, pulled that tooth out! I was so proud of him!  It wasn't even close to coming out, but he was brave and decided he wanted it out.  Out came the tooth!  

That night was a busy night...we had Buddy the Elf heading off to see Santa, as well as the Tooth Fairy coming for a visit!  Apparently, Buddy and the Tooth Fairy ran into each other in passing.  We woke to an enormous pile of glitter by the front door, along with a staggering trail of glitter, numerous items flipped upside down, turned sideways, etc, along with a note from Buddy explaining the situation.  It stated "Dylan, Sorry for everything being all messed up. I ran into the Tooth Fairy as she was leaving and we bumped heads.  I am so dizzy!"  A glittery mess and items jumbled galore was what we woke up to.

 

The next night Buddy and Captain America decided to have a little fun.

 

Buddy made a fort to hide out in while he & Captain America had a marshmallow fight!

 

Then Buddy decided to pose next to Dylan & Blake's new picture with Santa and go fishing for Goldfish. 

 

An Update on Buddy

Buddy continued his tricks by making a marshmallow game.  Dylan & Blake woke up to find him throwing marshmallows at a pyramid of cups.  Dylan was immediately intrigued by this game & wanted to join in...Blake, however, was not.  As Dylan & I took turns in throwing marshmallows at the cups & seeing who could knock down the most, Blake was not having any of it.  He had no interest whatsoever in throwing any marshmallows at cups...he only wanted to eat all the marshmallows!

 

The next day Buddy was found in a nice marshmallow bubble bath and  enjoying some of the delicious cookies that Dylan & Blake had made.

 

Then Buddy was found flying around & around on the ceiling fan the following morning.

 

Buddy decided to wrap the Christmas tree in toilet paper & hide out in the tree.

 

Buddy was found hanging from the chandelier and removed all the ornaments from my dining table Christmas tree.

 

After the slumber party, Buddy was found in Dylan's room with Spiderman making a web & hanging from the web.

 

Buddy really enjoyed hanging from the web all day. :)

And after the very crazy busy weekend of a slumber party with four kids, two birthday parties in a day, and Christmas on the Square, my kids still amaze me at how wonderful they are.  We had a blast all night at Christmas in the Square: getting goodies at Popperella's, watching the lights & listening to the music & riding the train & the horse drawn carriage.  After a very busy day, and very short naps, they were still just as happy as could be!

Catching Up (Again!)

Well, well....I guess the other morning after waking up at 4 am with a sick baby and two cups of coffee later....I was a little over zealous in thinking I would be able to attend a baby shower, child's birthday party, hang out with the kids & still catch this blog up.  It was a little crazy of a day!  So here goes the catch up....

We made the long trip to Kansas to spend some holiday time with my family.  Its a rough 8-9 hour drive and we were a little concerned about how Blake would do with it (he's not a big fan of his car seat and his screams will let you know it!)  Surprisingly, both boys did great!

(Dylan...always the best passenger)

I'm so mad at myself for not getting any pictures while we were there.  I had the camera out and just never took any! (Slapping myself on the hand)  I did manage to get a couple from the basketball game that we got to go to.  This was a first for all three boys!  Dylan was not too keen on it at first.  His ears are so sensitive and the loud noises scared him.  But eventually he adapted to it and ended up having a good time.  Blake just stared in amazement - lol!

We had a great time (as always) visiting my family in Kansas.  When we returned home, it was time to put up all the Christmas items.  Blake wanted to chip in and help me clean everything up.  He used his lovey to "dust mop" the floor.  He was waving it around everywhere!  

(I have no idea where he got his obsessive cleaning from...wink,wink)

And then the final picture is a "just because" picture.  I'm adding it just because it cracks me up.  Blake has started informing me whether or not he approves of the food choices I make for him. This face means, "I do NOT approve!" I call it the "EWWW!" face.

Christmas - Phase 1

Christmas Eve morning we decided to give Dylan one of his gifts early.  It wasn't wrapped, and the only reason we decided to give it to him early was because Russell was working on it in front of him.  No, Dylan would have had no idea it was for him....but Russell was excited to give it to him and Dylan had enough gifts to open anyways.  The gift was Russell's old iPod, well...that and a dock to play the music in his room.  Russell had been working all morning on putting a playlist for Dylan on the old iPod (one for fun tunes and one for bedtime music). 

Once Blake was old enough we moved Dylan's CD player in his room to play classical music at night to sleep to.  We didn't think Dylan would really mind...in fact we didn't think he even cared about the music. Much to our surprise, Dylan started asking almost every night for it to be moved back into his room!  So we decided to get him a new player for his room so he could listen to his music at night.

After Russell finished the iPod he hooked up Dylan's headphones to it and had him put the iPod in his pocket.  Dylan thought he was the coolest! He tucked that iPod in his back pocket and strutted around the house with his headphones on.  He kept yelling at us "Hey guys! Dance!" We had no idea which song was on...yet we obliged. ;)  Then once we hooked it up to the iPod player in his room it was a full on dance party in his room.  

(He was pulling out moves we've never seen!)

Then we headed over to Russell's family's house for Christmas eve.  Dylan was counting down the minutes until he was able to open presents.

(Enjoying opening presents)

(Blake wasn't as thrilled...he just wanted his bottle...but he's super cute in his Christmas PJ's!)

(Dylan loving his Christmas PJ's..Spiderman)

 

(Really getting into the Spiderman PJ's!)

 

(Opening presents Christmas morning)

 (Opening up Bucky)

(And my favorite of all the Christmas pictures...)

Merry Christmas!  Phase 2 starts tomorrow night!