Christmas fun

The boys had so much fun on Christmas. They walked out into our living room on Christmas morning and saw presents under the tree and stockings filled. Cole said "what?" (it actually sounded more like 'what the?'). Then "PRESENTS!". Then I said "Did Santa come?"...and he shouted "it's Christmas!!". I didn't think they would quite get it, but they sure had fun!

Cole had fun dumping out his new blocks.
Dylan and Cole got special baby dolls from their Nana. They love carrying them around and giving them bottles.

Daddy is reading one of their new books from Santa. They can't wait for new books in the house. We have to go to the library at least once a week to update our reading materials!
The guys love dressing up in costumes, so they both loved their Captain Amazing outfit from their cousin Paige. Dylan puts it on with his fireman helmet and says he is a fireman.
Cole especially loves the wrist bands. He'll come out in the morning and ask "where are the wrist bands?" and put them on.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

crafty boys

With all the snow and bad weather we have been having we have had to find new projects to do around the house. The other day we pulled out some beads and pipe cleaners and got busy!
I was surprised at their concentration level.

Cole is showing how well he can put the beads on...

...and Dylan is showing how they pulled the beads down the pipe cleaner. We ended up making bead wreaths ornaments that we put on our Christmas tree.

We really do turn the heat on in our house...the guys just love wearing hats!

More Snow!

We got MORE snow last night! The guys were so excited to get to play in fresh snow again. This time the snow was perfect for making snow balls and snowmen. We kept trying to make a snowman with them but they had so much fun jumping on the first big part of the snowman body, that after the 3rd time we gave up. They liked standing on the mountain of snow and squishing it with their boots!

Here is Dylan with a snowball.

Cole is saying 'white snow'. That's what they call snow. They won't just say snow...they always call it 'white snow'.

Here they are piling up the snow in another mountain.

Then they discovered that they could eat snow. Boy was that exciting! Mommy told them to be sure to only eat the 'white snow'!

When I tried to get the boys to come inside for lunch they told me that they were eating snow for lunch!

After playing in the snow they came inside and got all of their animals from their room and lined them up on the couch and then sat down with them. I walked into the room to find this scene. I grabbed the camera and told them to smile. They wouldn't smile and I asked them where their smiles were and they both pointed to their necks and said 'here'.

Snow day!

It snowed a couple of inches last night! We were so excited to go out and play we put on our boots and puffy jackets over our pajamas!



Dylan and Mommy tried to 'shovel' the snow off of our walkway and driveway...but all we had was a big broom (usually it doesn't snow that much here and when it does it melts right away...but today was VERY cold and the snow stuck around)! But we were able to get most of it pushed to the side.

Dylan would say 'puuuuusssshhhhh' while he helped!

Oh Christmas Tree!

This weekend we all headed out to pick out a Christmas tree. We went to a local tree farm to cut down our tree. The farm had lots of fun activities for us like taking a wagon ride around the property, petting baby goats, going through a tree maze and sitting around a big fire. Dylan especially liked sitting on the logs around the fire. Here he is enjoying the warmth with Daddy.

When we went to pick out a tree Cole was totally enamored with the very first tree we looked at. Every time we said, 'well lets keep looking' he would scream that no, this was THE tree. Luckily for us (Mom and Dad) the tree was not too tall...and actually it is perfect. Here the guys are giving their thumbs up for the tree.

The boys were so excited to watch Daddy cut down the tree with a saw. Daddy had to saw real slow so the experience lasted longer than the 30 seconds it would have normally taken!

Once we got the tree inside and pulled out the decorations the guys knew exactly what to do. They put up all the decorations and then took them down rearranged them and then put them back up again...

...and have been doing that ever since! Cole had to take a break from dinner tonight to make some changes to the way the ornaments were being displayed!

Piano Player

The guys love playing our piano. Here we caught Cole playing a fabulous song! Have your sound on.