Christmas Day

This year we spent Christmas Day over at my brother’s house. Thursday night we had gone over to Kevin’s mom’s house to celebrate. We didn’t get to celebrate with his sister as they have a sweet brand new baby and aren’t quite at the traveling stage, yet. We had a great day at my brother’s. Every year it cracks me up to see the mass of gifts we exchange. And funnier that we don’t all buy for each other. Goodness! My brother is really good at making sure we hear the story of the birth of Jesus before we open gifts. That is the reason we are even celebrating. Thank you Dustin for making this a priority for us! Watching these 2 boys open gifts is just a ton of fun! They are sweet boys and give hugs to all when they’re done. Addison & Ian checking out their gifts Will got a table this year! Mom bought it and Lindsey decorated it for us. It does have legs and chairs – they just weren’t brought in. He was pretty content with out them!

Hat and scarf ladies! Tricia found this fun crazy ball thing that you unravel and as you do there are little toys in it. Dylan scored a stash! :) I wish I had taken good group shots like I did last year, but I didn’t. I’ll have to make sure that happens next year!

Christmas Morning

The entire Christmas season is just so much more fun with a 2 year old! His enthusiasm is honestly infectious! Looking at Christmas lights with this kiddo is heart warming. He gets so excited! He was so proud of the lights on our house, too. He loved singing Jingle Bells and to hear it will melt your heart. He loved our Christmas tree. I have a plate & towel in the kitchen that say Happy Birthday Jesus! He knows that’s what they say and when he would see it, he would yell – Happy Birthday Jesus! So sweet. We do Santa at our house. While we don’t want it to be the focus, it is a fun tradition! Instead of wrapping up gifts from us, we just put them all out from “Santa.” He doesn’t know the difference.

Here he is with the milk and cookies he put out for Santa. He loaded him up with cookies! He looks like he’s in pain, but this is a weaker version of his cheese face. Santa came! This smile says it all. The happiness we feel as parents having this precious boy in our lives. I love it! He ended up getting several Toy Story toys – kind of just ended up that way. He was loving on one of the soft ones above and flying Buzz around below! He calls this his “motorcycle!” Hilarious! Though, mommy bought the wrong one because I can’t steer it from behind and he isn’t quite ready to steer either. Ugh. We took a stroll around the block and it required me pushing with one hand on the back and leaning down steering with the other. Work out for mommy – especially uphill!! What a fun Christmas morning!

Will in his Christmas Outfit

I just love this little outfit on Will. It was his official Christmas outfit! Thank you Ally for the cute sweater – so appropriate and perfect! This little boy has suddenly become a ham. I don’t know where it came from. Over the last month he’s finally decided to cheese it up for the camera. And I love it!! Here he is at G.J. & Neille’s house. And here he is at our house! He even wanted to take the pics. Love this phase and love this little boy!!

Trains!

We took the boys to the Trains at NorthPark last week. As we expected, they loved it! Dylan had been before but this was Will’s first visit. He is obsessed with trains right now, so this was an absolute blast for him! They couldn’t get enough! Dylan was so sweet and kept showing Will different trains. Fun, fun times! Sweet Miles went along too – hi cutie! This boy is growing too fast. He’s now 6 months old!! What?!? He is sitting up and everything. Slow down kiddo!

Pre-school Christmas Program

Will had a Christmas program at his school and sadly, I missed it! I was out of town for work but daddy, Mimi, G.J., Neille, Ally, & Bobby were all in attendance. He was well represented! If you’ll recall, he cried the entire way through his grandparents program. This time – no crying!! Progress! He didn’t sing a single word. But hey, he stood there and looked adorable. :) Below he is the 5th kid from the left on the front row.

They did jingle bells and below he is messing with this bells. He kept dropping them and picking them up. Cute boy.

Christmas Cookies

Will and I made Christmas cookies a few weeks ago. And yes, we were still in our pj’s! It was my day off and we weren’t going anywhere, so we didn’t feel the need to get dressed up! Will loves to help these days. He will “help” us do all sorts of things! He is so sweet and so proud of himself when he does. He was very into the cookie business! He’s started “cheesing” for the camera lately. What a cute cheese ball! Aren’t they beautiful? He was proud! I tried to help a little, but really they were his masterpiece. I let him have at it. He thought they tasted great, so that’s all that mattered. Fun, fun memory!

Best Face Forward

I had to post this picture to redeem my sweet boy from the melt down picture I posted earlier. This is one of the first pictures we took and he was picture perfect! Clearly, it didn't last long, so I am so glad we got this one! It was a gift for my mom, so I had to keep it under wraps until after Christmas. Just wanted to show you that Will did give us a good pic. Just one - but that's all we needed! :) How handsome are these 3 boys? Cousin fun!!

On a side note, Will has been a sweetheart lately! He has been so fun and so playful. Luckily whatever was making him crazy awhile back seems to have gone away. I am loving my sweet 2 year old! I was off last week and am off this week and I am loving it! So much fun right now!!