Christmas 2014

Merry Christmas!!  It's been a great holiday season and a great Christmas.  I'm so blessed and very grateful for my friends and family.  The boys had a blast and loved all their presents, of which there were too many.  Santa brought lots of stuff that he collected at yard sales for the boys...and lots of stuff they can grow into.  And Carlos and I will have fun with the new stuff, too! ;-)

Here's the tree pre-Santa.

Two nights ago, on the 23rd, we went to dinner at Bertucci's (courtesy of a student who gave me a generous gift card).  The boys were so good.  The waitress actually said to me, "These are the cleanest kids I've ever had."  Maybe she's only been on the job for a day?  After dinner we went to the Taunton Green to see the lights.  It was raining so we didn't stay long, but the boys enjoyed walking around.

On Christmas Eve day, we hung out at the house all morning.  It was a loooong day.  The boys were whiny and tired and cranky.  But there were some good moments....like this one when Adi had a few chocolate chips.

To burn off energy we went puddle jumping, but even that didn't last long because it was 46 degrees out and the water was freezing.

Sebastian and I colored.  Here is his masterpiece.  He worked diligently for about 15-20 minutes on it...

At night we went to Kitchen's house.  The boys had a blast playing with Kitchen's trucks and looking at his Lego city.  Sebastian wouldn't leave poor Kitchen alone--all he wanted to do was play with him.

Adi shared Puppy with nana and they had a moment...

 Auntie Carol had McQueen stickers, notepads, and pens and toy story stuff, too, to play with at their special table.  The boys are totally into stickers lately and put them all over their clothes and bodies.  But last night after coloring on the table all they wanted to do was play with Kitchen's toys.  Well, the stickers will be a big hit now that we are home and Kitchen's toys aren't tempting them!

Adi LIT UP when he saw his army man coat from Tia Mimi.  All the pictures are blurry :-(

At home, Santa came and left presents everywhere...

First we did stockings on Mama and Papa's bed--just like my brother and I did when we were kids.  Sebastian was thrilled with his Mickey doll.

Then we opened the presents upstairs.

 Notice the army man socks on Adi--he made us put them on right away.

 Probably the biggest hit of all with Sebastian was the two McQueen trucks he got.

And Adi is so excited about his army man clothes--he made me put them on and then he made me change him so he could wear MORE of the army man stuff.  Aside from his clothes, he was excited about his playdough and the truck that makes playdough shapes.

Santa left presents downstairs, too!  Wow--he's crazy.

Grumpy and Mini joined us for brunch.  Adi liked knocking down Grumpy's towers.

Adi got this cash register from Kitchen last night.  And the boys got the lemonade stand from him for their birthday.  It's the perfect place for them to sell things...like playdough.

Sebastian likes his trucks so much that he took them with him on the couch and put them under the blanket to watch his new Mickey's Clubhouse DVD.

Tonight we're off to Grumpy's house because he said Santa left presents there, too.  And Mini's house on Saturday.  Busy busy boys!!!

What a great fall and Christmas season it's been.  I so enjoy all the traditions we are starting with the boys and look forward to many more years of fun.

Merry Christmas!

Gifts 2014 (again, Santa was very thrifty about his acquisition of these gifts)

bristle blocks
tinker toys
lincoln logs
legos
snow boots
army man gear (adi)
Fleece pants/shirts (sebastian)
McQueen trucks
coloring books
Kinex
cardboard blocks
wooden castle blocks
mittens
matchbox cars
socks
toy story watches
toy story pez dispensers
army man walkie talkies
thomas the train wooden accessories, track, and trains
books
play dough
construction vehicles
army men, vehicles, etc
plastic dinosaurs
stuffed Mickey

Carlos got me an awesome LL Bean jacket/sweatshirt and a Mexican cookbook I wanted.  I got him a Fitbit.