Merry Christmas!

Santa Claus visited our house last night.  His reindeer at all the glitter food in the front yard but Santa left a few crumbs from the cookies on his plate.  He delivered a basketball goal with two balls as requested by Jackson.  The boys love playing basketball in mom's kitchen.  They also got a lot of new books, train sets, ornaments for the tree and other fun toys. 

Jackson got a bicycle that trails behind our bikes.  Now Carson can have the bike trailer all to himself.  They both got a kick out of riding around the neighborhood.  It was good exercise for mom and dad too.

Drew got a huge helicopter that we have flown three (3) times today.  Jackson loves watching it fly.

Carson said, "Happy," today.  He is so cute.  He also loves to give his brother hugs.

3 Years Old and 14 Months Week 3

The boys have been sick this week.  Jackson has pneumonia and Carson has bronchitis.  Needless to say, we have not done much.  We did make Chex Mix, fruit cake cookies, gingerbread cookies and hot chocolate reindeer for Jackson's preschool class.

Last Friday, we went to Nicole's house for a family Christmas party.  Each family brought $5 gifts for the kids to open.  It was fun to watch them tear through the paper.  All the kids are so excited about Christmas!

Jackson tells me daily that Santa is going to land on his roof and come down the chimney with presents.  He wants to know if the reindeer will come inside too.

At the doctor's office, Carson weighed 30 pounds and Jackson weighed 42 pounds.  Both kids have big feet.  They are growing up so fast.

Carson is talking up a storm.  He is saying "santa, ball, brother, dog, Riley, good, hi, all done, outside, shoe, down."  He repeats everything.  In the morning, I say, "Hi" when I open his door.  Carson says, "Hi" back.  Then I say, "How are you?" and Carson says "Good."

3 Years Old and 14 Months Week 1

 
Jackson is loving every minute of Christmastime this year.  We started decorating for Christmas this week.  We decorated inside and outside the house and then went to the mountains with friends to cut down a Christmas tree.  The boys were very helpful trimming the tree except they take off more ornaments than they put on.  Also, the candy canes were a bad idea.  I found Carson eating one right before bed last night plastic and all.

 

Jackson told Santa that he wanted a charger for the helicopter.  We tell Jackson the helicopter has to charge when we are tired of playing or he would never stop.  I guess he thinks we need a better charger or that two might be more helpful.  He also wants a basketball goal with two basketballs.  I think the second ball is for Carson so Jackson will not have to share.

 

We believe that Santa may have been Santa Claude, Santa's Claus's brother from the South Pole.

 



 

Jackson is trying to keep Carson in the picture in front of our tree.  Carson is too busy walking around to be contained.  Jackson helped Drew saw the tree down.  We hung out at the farm for about 2 hours waiting on Santa Claude.  The property is beautiful and we had fun playing badminton with the boys.