Christmas

Christmas was a blast! We didn't even feel the need to take our tree down that night. The boys got tons of presents! This year they had a blast opening presents.
The day before Christmas eve and Christmas eve, we went to my parents house. The boys got to play with their new cousin, Luke. He is a year and half and such a cutie! The boys loved playing with him, they played with the trains. Later on, their older cousin Aidan joined them for a game of catch me. It was wild and fun to watch!!!
My parents got the boys remote control trains, car and train mats. My sister's family got them spiderman DVDs, which we had to hide because we would have had to put it on. My brother's family got them a stuffed dog and vet, as well as a vtech counting board. The boys made out!!
Christmas morning started off with Jacob walking to the tree and presents, pointing, saying "ho" and walking to the couch. I took a shower and in that time he found his new tricycle and was ready to open presents. The next task was to wake up Jasper.
After Jasper got up, they opened presents. They had so much fun this year. Jasper loved his tricycle too! Joy got them a ton of Spiderman stuff, which they loved.
We took the boys downstairs with the tricycles and Jasper walked over to the old tricycles for us to move out of the way of the new cycles.
In the afternoon, we went to Joy's mom's house. The boys got a train set and leap pads, as well as stuffed minions. Jacob had some great independent play with the trains and Jasper played with Joy's brother.
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Christmas coming.

Christmas is on the way!!! We are on our way to my parents' house for one of two nights.

Today, the boys and I went stocking stuffers shopping. We dropped Joy off at work and then hit up Sams Club. We had a slice of pizza and ritz crackers. Then we went to giant eagle to buy pop corn. The boys got ride in a car cart. They were so excited!!







The boys go to play in the snow this week. First with Joy on Friday and then me on Saturday. We threw snowballs at Ace. Ace loved it. We also made snow angels. It was so cute!!! Sadly we couldn't stay out too long cuz of the cold do they weren't too happy about coming back in.


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Santa!!

This week we took the boys to see Santa for the first time. We prepared them by teaching them to say "ho ho Ho". We went during the week, so there was no one there. The boys walked right up to Santa, pulled candy canes off the trees and tried to feed them to Santa. They sat really good on his lap and we got a picture. Afterwards, they gave Santa high fives.

The boys have been choo choo bye bye deprived this week. So today we took them to the Lodi train station to ride on the train. They had a Christmas express train. We went one it and the boys got to meet Santa again after the train ride.

They were good during the train ride and for the beginning part of Santa's story. Then they got wild. They ran around a lot. They finally got up to meet Santa again. They sat on his lap with Mrs. Claus. We got a few pictures but only on the phone.


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Choo choo bye bye

Last weekend, it was warm enough to be outside. It was awesome! One the way to the park, we heard a train. So went near the tracks, however it never came. We walked to the library and the playground there. We played there until we heard another train, then I put them into their wagon and ran. We got there and no train!!!

We waited again for awhile for a train to come but never did. Every time a car drove by, Jacob poked and said "mean mean mean" because it was not a train.

We ended up going back to the park. I got so mad because of people dropping off their kids at the park and not watching them. There was a little girl about 4 or 5 with her brothers around age of 8-10. The little girl had to pee and was asking me. All I could do was tell her to tell her brothers. I can't take her to the bathroom. Eventually, they took her... Behind some bushes.

Anyway... The boys talking much more. I think reading green eggs and ham to them really helped. They are starting to really memorize it.




Last Thursday, we took them to see the polar express. They have a train ride here that is set up like polar express and a whole area set up like the north pole. We went there and waited for the train to show. The boys were so do excited to go "choo choo bye bye." It was really neat. People were dressed up. Boys loved waving at the frosty guy.

When the train showed up though, Jasper got a little scared. He covered his eyes. Nothing scares our boys much, which kinda scares me. But the train kinda looked like it was coming at us in the dark.

It was pretty cold but totally worth! Eventually, we gonna take them on the train.




Last night while I put the boys to bed, Joy made the boys a ginger bread house. I helped a little bit decorating with m&ms. The boys absolutely loved it this morning. Jacob saw it on the fridge first. He pointed at it. We got Joy and let them have it. They mostly ate the m&ms. We got video and pictures.



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Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was a major success! This year, we had thanksgiving at our house and Joy cooked an amazing amount of food. Everything was perfect and fun. My parents came along with Joy's mom and brother.

We started out the day by watching the parade here and there. Jacob loved the spiderman float, Jasper would rather watch the cartoon. Very funny!

My parents brought them Spiderman cars which they loved.

Joy made a ton of food, which we are still eating. Yesterday, I pulled out chocolate oero pie. Jasper pointed to the cherry pie instead. I was shocked! Hehe

Jacob has been sick since yesterday. They both have sinus infections but Jacob has it a little worse. Poor dude is so miserable! He had been sleeping a lot.

I took them both to the minute clinic at CVS. They are both on antibiotics.

We have been watching a lot of movies.

The boys are starting to talk!!!!!!! Yay!!!

When I left Jacob after I thought he was sleeping, he called out "where'd you go?". He also said "there he is" when I asked where Jasper was.

Jasper has been repeating me a lot. I dropped a box of popcorn and said "oh shit," he responded with "oh sheesh". Need to watch my mouth!!




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Christmas tree up maybe down soon!

We are having Thanksgiving at our house this year. This is our first big thanksgiving at our house with the boys. I'm really looking forward to it and all it's work. Though cleaning has been hard!!!

Yesterday we put up our Christmas tree so my parents will see it this year, since they'll be over.

After the boys got ahold of it, I was ready to take it down. Most of the bulbs have been taken down, broken or thrown before we were even finished putting it up. I'm not sure if it'll be up for thanksgiving but as of day 2 it hasn't been as bad as yesterday.

I'm home with the boys right now while Joy is working. As soon as she left, Jasper got a cake mix from the kitchen. Very funny! The other times Joy worked, we made cakes. It must of stuck with him.

After Joy left, I gave Jake the rest of her turkey sandwich. He loved it. He came to kitchen wanting more. I made him another one. Jasper preferred a peanut butter sandwich instead though. Jake ate the turkey.

Joy and I bought Dr Sesus books on our nooks. We both bought Green and Ham, she got The Grinch, and I got
the Lorax. They are really cool interactive books!

The boys are still really into spider-man. Joy bought them tons of spider-man merch. They have spider-man clothes, pjs, toys, plates, bubble bath. I tried to put non-spiderman clothes on them, Jasper was an automatic no go, Jacob wanted changed as soon as he realizes Jasper had Spider-man on.

Update!

I'm a little behind in my updates.... Right now, I'm watching a Nightmare before Christmas with the boys. It's a perfect mix of Halloween and Christmas and boys love it. They also love Vincent, a short on the DVD.

Last week, we took the boys to the mall to play. I forgot to put socks on Jacob, so Joy bought socks while we were there. They played for a good while. This time, they played more together than other time we went there. Jasper really wanted to see the train at the mall, which caused a little freak out. He was pretty satisfied after seeing until it arrived back.



The boys also went on carousel. They waved at everybody and says hi. It was so cute!!

A few days later, the boys developed a nasty cold. Runny noses, coughing... Looked rough but luckily they are already feeling better.

Joy started working on Sunday at Barnes and Noble. It was 69 degrees outside, so I took the boys outside and then to the park. We also took ace for a short walk. It was so nice to be outside.



The boys are really starting to use their words. It is really cool. They are really great at Green Eggs and Ham, saying some of the words before I say them.

The boys have also gotten really good at riding their tricycles, they are going to love their Christmas presents!!!