Christmas came and went very fast for us this year. We came back from Hawaii on December 8th and the next day had to go to Bryce's Christmas program at school. The next week, we had Christmas parties at school. Then the following week was Christmas. Both of the kids were sick the entire week of Christmas. Bryce had flu like symptoms which ended up being a virus and ear infection. Carter also had a virus, or he is lactose intolerant (don't know which yet) and was teething.
We baked some cookies the week before Christmas, but had eaten most of them by Christmas Eve. Bryce felt better and was bugging me to make more cookies, so we made some sugar cookies for Santa. I wanted to do something different for Santa, so we are starting a tradition of making a giant cookie instead of several small ones for Santa. We asked Bryce what he wanted it to say and Shawn decorated it for him. We would have asked Carter, but he says the same word for everything, "Bye". He may never talk, but that is another post.
We baked some cookies the week before Christmas, but had eaten most of them by Christmas Eve. Bryce felt better and was bugging me to make more cookies, so we made some sugar cookies for Santa. I wanted to do something different for Santa, so we are starting a tradition of making a giant cookie instead of several small ones for Santa. We asked Bryce what he wanted it to say and Shawn decorated it for him. We would have asked Carter, but he says the same word for everything, "Bye". He may never talk, but that is another post.
Bryce was really into Christmas this year. He learned several Christmas songs at school and liked to listen to Christmas music in the car. He could not wait to open presents and had ripped some of the paper on a few of them before Christmas morning.
This was the best picture that I could get of Carter. He was so fussy and not having any of my picture taking.
Santa brought a kitchen set with all the trimmings for both Bryce and Carter. At Bryce's preschool, they have a kitchen set and the teacher says it is the biggest hit of all the toys. Keep in mind that there are 9 boys and only 2 girls in his class.
Carter got this ABC Elmo from his Nanny (my mom) and Elmo Live from Shawn and I.
Santa was nice enough to bring Bryce a drum, harmonica, maracas, and a tambourine. I am just glad he didn't bring a whole drum set.
Chef Bryce hard at work.
Bryce got this car from his Nanny. It is the bounce back racer car that he saw on Jon and Kate plus 8. He wanted it and my mom ended up buying it off of ebay and paying more for it than it normally sold for. About a week after she bought it, she found some at Wal-Mart. She ended up getting the one's at Wal-Mart and selling them on ebay to make up the difference that she paid for the car. After all that, the car doesn't flip over as advertised. :( How disappointing. Bryce still likes it anyway.
Santa also brought a wagon for Bryce and Carter. Since they were not feeling well, and the weather was bad, I pulled them all over the house in the wagon. Bryce provided musical entertainment with his one man band. We look forward to taking the wagon to Canton soon.
Carter got a ballpit for Christmas too. His hair had a lot of static in it and I thought that this picture was funny.
He did not like me laughing at him though.
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Wow, too bad those boys didn't get any good presents for Christmas! :-)
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