It's Christmas Morning!

William was so excited on Christmas morning to open his presents. After all, he'd been waiting anxiously and impatiently for weeks! Here he is enjoying his new Batcave which he had talked about non-stop for weeks. He was so obsessed with getting a Batcave that he carried around a Fleet Farm magazine with an advertisement and picture of a Batcave. He eat, breathed, and slept Batcaves.

William and Grace also received a dollhouse by Plan Toys. LOVE this thing! It's so sturdy and fun. It even holds up to Gracie's beatings and William's rough play! We will have this for years to come and I am sure that my grandchildren will play with it someday!

Christmas Eve

This year we enjoyed a relaxed and quiet Christmas Eve. We went to church with my parents and my brother, Ryan. We then came back to our house for a yummy lasagna dinner and some presents. William and Grace got Pottery Barn Kids Anywhere Chairs from "Uma" and Papa. Grace was so excited to have something to climb on that was just the right size for her. You can see the delight in her face!

William was really excited that this was the Santa was due to visit and leave some presents. He sprinkled oatmeal (reindeer food) outside our front door for Santa's reindeer. We had a slight dilemma a couple days prior to Christmas Eve when William realized that we don't have a chimney for Santa to climb down. How is Santa supposed to get into a house without a chimney? He doesn't have a key and we can't leave our front door opened. Why of course, we had to get the "magical key". Papa and Uma have a magical key at their house, so we drove over one evening and got it from them. On Christmas Eve I tied a ribbon around it and put it on our front door where Santa would see it. We also left out milk and cookies for Santa and carrots for his reindeer.

Grace 10 almost 11 months

PIcture Taking: Impossible.

A friend from my mommy group makes these adorable shirts. I really wanted to get a nice picture of both kids showing off their LLC shirts. Did NOT happen. Oh my stars. Getting Gracie to sit still and look at the camera is impossible. And trying to get William to just stand there and watch the camera...ain't happenin'. I kept telling William just to watch the camera and smile, because as soon as I could get her to look, he wasn't looking. Augh.

Hot Chocolate and Gingerbread Houses...

William LOVES to be in the kitchen-baking, cooking, stirring, decorating, pouring, measuring...he loves it all. This year we made a gingerbread house and had hot chocolate for the first time. He wasn't overly fond of the hot chocolate, but he did love the marshmallows.

*Excuse the face he's making...he went through a "googly-eyes" (as he calls it) phase.