Tummy Time

I haven't been very good about practicing tummy time with Sara. I put her down on the ground yesterday and she was able to do keep her head up off the ground for a couple of minutes.  Go Sara!

Will giving a little encouragement.

Gingerbread Houses

We made gingerbread houses the other day as part of one of our Advent calendar activities.  I found a kit that had 4 mini houses which was perfect...2 houses for each boy so there was no fighting over one big house.  They seemed to have a lot of fun making the houses (and eating the frosting).  

 Very serious as they pipe the frosting onto their houses.  I was very impressed with their pastry skills!

Tada!  The finished products.  Jack wouldn't look at the camera at first so Will was trying to help me out by making Jack look.

And finally Jack cooperated.  How cute are they?

Happy Holidays!

Dear Santa

I got it!  Our first picture where everyone is sitting on Santa's lap and no one is crying!  Whoo!  The boys were so excited to go see Santa and tell him what they wanted for Christmas.  Will marched right up to him and stood in front of Santa facing him and rattled off all the gifts he wanted. Also, earlier that day, Will touched Joanie the Elf (which he knows he is not supposed to do) so he told Santa that he touched him by accident.  Santa reassured Will that he would make sure that Joanie had her magic that night and thanked him for telling the truth.  Jack just kept asking santa where his reindeer were.  He was very interested in them for some reason.

Here's is the photo!  Oh and by the way, isn't this Santa awesome?  He's got me wondering if he is real. :-)

Guess who's back!

Joanie the Elf!!  Santa dropped Joanie off at our house on December 2nd and the boys were soooooo excited.  Will has been talking about Joanie for the past month now so he couldn't wait for him to get here.   I was looking forward to Joanie's arrival primarily for the disciplinary benefits.   If the boys are misbehaving, we tell them that Joanie is going to tell Santa.   I think last year this tactic worked a little better than it has been working this year.  Jack in particular doesn't seem to be buying the "threat".   However, this doesn't stop me from threatening no presents from Santa.  I'll march over to Joanie and talk to him about what the boys were doing asking him to report back to Santa.  Someday when the boys realized the truth about Joanie, they are going to call me out for having a conversation with a doll.  haha!

Secretly I was looking forward to Joanie's arrival as well since it means the start of the holiday season.  I feel like a kid again and I can't wait for Christmas to arrive!

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

We took our annual trip to cut down our christmas tree.   Despite all the "my legs hurt", and "I can't walk anymore", we were able to fight through the pain and find the perfect tree.   When you are out in a field of trees, you lose perspective of how big the tree really is.  I kept wanting bigger and Eric had to keep bringing me back to reality saying that a 10 foot tree probably wouldn't fit in our house. LOL.   Here are a few pictures from our outing.....

All I had to do was bribe them with a candy cane and they were more than willing to pose for a few pictures.  I'm going to keep my bag stocked with candy canes if that is all it is going to take!

We decorated the tree the following weekend.  The boys had such a good time unwrapping all the ornaments to see what each one was.  They really got into it and this was the first year they lasted all the way to the very last ornament being put onto the tree.  Here is the finished product....