Christmas Day

For Christmas CJ wanted a blue bicycle from Santa, and when he went downstairs and walked into the room, he first picked up Baby L's new play gym and then walked over and looked under the Christmas tree. He walked right past the bike without even noticing anything. We finally pointed it out and he was super excited. Santa even gave him back the letter CJ wrote to him with a note back to him saying thanks for the letter. CJ thought it was really cool and couldn't wait to try out his new bike. The is Baby L in his new play gym. He loves it! He plays in it all the time. It is so great to be able to put him down and have him be entertained for a little while.

This year was super fun, CJ was really into opening everything and figuring out all the cool things that he got from Santa.

CJ gave everyone their presents from under the tree, that was his big job this year.

And after he gave the people their presents he would help them open the presents also.

CJ got a sand table from Grandma and Grandpa, we set it up downstairs and he had a ton of fun. It is still their because it has been so cold, but now we need to get it out on our balcony. He spent hours and hours playing with it, and still plays with it for a long time everytime we go down to spend time with Grandma and Grandpa.

This is all of us stainding around watching CJ play with his sand box.

And then we tried to help CJ ride his bike. He can't really ride it by himself yet. He doesn't like to turn the handlebars so we end up running into the walls, and he doesn't quite understand how to pedal yet. He always goes a little bit foreward and then instead of pushing a little harder at the bottom with his foot he starts pushing with his top foot which makes the pedals go backwards so he ends up braking instead of going foreward. But we have lots of time to practice and we have a nice big tennis court that he can learn to ride in. I'm so excited that it is getting warmer and we will be able to bring these fun outdoor presents home from Grandma's house.

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve we got to go to both grandparents houses. First we went to Daddy's parents house and got to open presents with everyone. One of CJ's favorite gifts this year was some duplos. He loves duplos!!! We play with them almost everyday all day long. He also got a big puzzle mat and he was playing peek a boo in the big bag that it came in, until he ripped it open. :)

Daddy fell asleep with Baby L and his new blanket. The funny part about this picture is that he just had two Mellow Yellow's so he had a lot of caffine and then passed out.

Later that night we went to my parents to spend the night. After the boys were all ready for bed Santa came to say hi. He got to stay for a while and even read CJ a bed time story. It was a tradition in my family to read The Nativity on Christmas eve, so this year Santa got to read it to us.

CJ even sat on Santa's lap the whole time. I was really proud of him for not being scared of Santa.

Then it was off to bed. CJ went to bed really quickly but had a rough night and kept waking up. It wasn't a very fun night. He didn't feel very good from being so excited and not eating very good things. But in the morning it was super excited to see what Santa had left for him. :)

Big Boy Underwear

We have been kind of potty training CJ over the last few months. I haven't pushed anything just asked a few times if he wanted to go potty and sometimes he did and sometimes he didn't. As he has been going we have been filling up a potty chart. Well tonight he finished it! all 35 spots! Now we get to go and get his big boy underwear. He is so cute, we have been talking about this for a while now and he has the whole thing planned out. He wants both of his grandparents to be there and he wants to go to the South Town Mall and buy them at Macy's. After we buy his underwear he wants to go and ride the train. I can't wait until tomorrow night. My little boy is growing up. I just hope I don't have to clean up too many accidents now.

Family Christmas Party

We had a family Christmas party with Daddy's extended family. We had lots of yummy food and prizes and Santa even came to see us. We all had a lot of fun and it was nice to see everyone for the holiday. CJ loved the vacumm. They got it out to clean up all the crumbs from eveyone and the two year olds were the ones that cleaned up. :)

CJ and Baby L on Santa's lap. CJ loved Santa. He was so excited to see him. He watched him the whole time while he was giving little bags to all the kids. He even wanted to sit on his lap twice. Once by himself and then another time with his brother.

Santa and Baby L. This was Baby L's first time seeing santa! He was so good too. He didn't even cry.

CJ wrote Santa a letter and gave it to him. He told Santa that he wanted a blue bicycle for christmas. He was so cute giving him his letter. He wouldn't talk to him but he needed to give him his letter.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone! I love this time of year. It is so much fun. Except for deciding what to get, and actually going out and getting it. Shopping stresses me out! But I thought it was fun yesterday CJ and I were eating lunch and he started singing Frosty the Snowman. He loves that song and I just wanted to share his version:

Frosty the snowman, happy jolly snow
with corn pipe, button nose, and two eyes made of cold.

He sings more parts but this is his favorite and he will sing it over and over again. I love hearing all the songs that I like to sing coming from my little boy. He also likes to sing Santa Claus is coming to town. So very cute. I can't wait to see him Christmas morning. He is so excited for all the presents.

Getting Ready for Christmas

CJ and I got christmas out the day after Thanksgiving. CJ loved seeing all the fun decorations and I'm sooooo happy I had some fun christmas toys for him to play with. They have been really nice because he likes playing with them, and I got to put up all the breakable stuff while he was busy. We turned on some Christmas movies and played. This is CJ dressed up like Santa. With stockings on his hands for gloves. :) He makes me laugh. He also found the big stockings and asked what they were. When I told him they were stockings he looked a little confused and said "to put on your hands for the oven" He was getting a little confused with the oven mit that we have.

I loved this! CJ got tired and he decided to take a nap under the tree and watch the movies.

Baby L was also sleepy and he was sleeping on the couch while we were decorating the house.

My two boys!

I've been having fun taking care of two boys. Sometimes it is a challenge but I'm enjoying it. Here are some pics of what we do. Yes I know they are all the same. CJ loves to lay next to or hold his little baby brother. He is always asking if he can hold him. Most of the time I have to say no because he is sleeping but he gets to hold him a lot.
Boys snuggling!

Baby L fell asleep like this. I had to laugh. It looks like he went to sleep in the middle of a stretch.

My two little bugs. Sorry the bottom pic is sideways.

More baby holding.

CJ being such a big boy. He is listening to the radio on Daddy's gift from work. (A portable radio) I can just imagine him 10 years older and this is all I'm going to see. Earphones in his ear listening to music.

We are kind of working on potty training CJ. He has a potty chart now and he finished a whole row (7 times) so he got a prise. He loved the puzzle and played with it the rest of the night. It is still a little hard for him to do but he is getting better and better at it every day.

His favorite part of it is Frank. He says that he doesn't like him but I think he is becoming CJ's favorite character in Cars.