Christmas Day

This is the first year that Jalen, at 3 and a half, really got excited about Christmas. He knew that it was the day he got to open presents. And he knew there were lots of presents waiting for him! On Christmas morning, he came into our bed and managed to wait until about 9am before we started opening presents. We opened presents from friends at home then went over to Grandma and Grandpa's to open the rest of the presents.




This Toy Story 3 Lego set was on Jalen's wish list. He says "the Claw! the Claw!"

Here is Max with his classic Eeyore look with cousin Taylor.


Jalen was so excited to finally get his lady bug Pillow Pet. He has seen the TV commercial every morning. After making it into a pillow, he asked "Mommy, can you help me turn this into a cozy animal?"

Max and the Christmas Tree

It's hard to remember what Jalen's first Christmas was like... He was 7 months old and was sitting up but not yet crawling... So he probably was pretty contained and not getting into the ornaments. Max is now 10 months and fully mobile. His favorite ornament is this little Christmas book. He loves to pull on it. We just cross our fingers and hope that he doesn't pull the tree down with it.

This is a guilty look if I ever saw one...

OK, you caught me but I'm cute!

Gingerbread House

And we're back on Blogger! I like the sequential flow of this blog and with the kids I need to have things in order for me to remember what's what!

The week before Christmas, Jalen and I put together a gingerbread house. I put the icing on and he carefully placed the candies onto the house. It's so interesting to see how orderly he placed the candies (see the perfect row of dots on the spine of the roof).

Carefully picking up a dot...

then placing it just so...

Tada! The finished product. Daddy helped to make the Santa and the tree in front of the house. So cute!