So Damn Cute

Boy 2 wanted to wear his Sea Dogs hat to bed the other night. We thought nothing of it, expecting to come up when we went to bed and find it on the bed or floor somewhere. Nope, it was right on his mellon and he was fast asleep. I called for Carey to come check this out!

He's so damn cute!

Christmas 2011

On top of putting out cookies and milk for Santa, we also went outside to sprinkle "Reindeer" food we got from our visit to Santa's barn at Beans. The second picture would be much funnier as a video. Boy 2 was yelling into the sky to the Reindeer their "food was ready!"

They had to wait at the top of the stairs until everyone was ready to go down stairs. I keep telling myself these are fake smiles, but they could be taken as rabid dogs ready to attack.

I am the champion.........Santa put bubble bath in my stocking!

Umm.......nobody saw me shove a Christmas Tree Peep in my mouth at 7:20 a.m.

Boy 1 and Boy 2 got a bath kit. Yep.........the man grooming has begun during bath time

Boy 2, Santa must have seen how much you really wanted Lotso-Huggin-Bear when you were at Mickey's House. (It really smells like strawberries like they say in Toy Story 3)

And the big gift was a Wii for the whole family. Boy 1 got Super Mario which has turned into a big hit. Everyone is kinda addicted to the game. Carey and I have been playing just about every night when the boys go to bed.

Lead-Up to Christmas

A couple of things we did this year leading up to Christmas was visit Santa's Barn Yard at LL Beans. Carey's mom works there and Beans does something like this every year. It is only open to employees and their families. They have employees who dress-up as different rolls at different stations and the kids walk through doing different activities. They run it for about 8 hours, in half-hour blocks. I think, she said they had around 4,000 people go through!

Making an ornament and being spun for pin the nose on Rudolph!



Giving the list to Santa

And of course we went and got our Christmas Tree. We found this tree farm in Dresden and decided to give it a try. Well as you will see in the pictures the pickings were very slim. This year was his last year in business so finding a great tree was tough......I mean impossible. Once you have the kids there you really can't pack them up and say we are going somewhere else without a melt down. They don't really care if the tree has a bald spot or not, they love it once its decorated no matter what.

They had a good time being pulled and pulling each other through the field. The toughest part was we had to go to the furthest part of the field for any trees and that means they had to walk the whole way back because the tree was on the cart.

Disney

I will get some stories up later, but here are a few pictures from our Disney Vacation last week.

First E.R. Visit

Well Boy 2 had his first visit to the emergency room on Monday. Carey was surprised he didn't have a file at Parkview yet. I guess all the things Boy 1 did to himself (Croup, broken collarbone, fall on his face etc. we became pretty skilled at addressing things.

Though we never learned how to do stitches. Within 90 minutes of being at daycare on Monday after our week at Disney, he proceeded to go head first into a window sill. The funniest part of it all is that Audrey was on vacation so there was a substitute daycare provider there. She felt horrible, but there was nothing she could have done to prevent it.....but it was fun making her feel worse over the past few days!

When Carey finally got a hold of me at work they were all ready at the E.R. She said they were about to start stitches. While driving to the E.R. all I could think of was I remember putting him in a white shirt that morning, I figured it would be covered in blood, but there was nothing on him at all.

When I got there the staff was singing the praises of how well Boy 2 was doing. The nurse said he was easily the best kid they have had in the past 3 or 4 years. Wow, this is the kid who whines at everything. I got there in time to see the final 3 of the 7 stitches go in, not one whimper out of him! The Dr. said kids that young sometimes have to be sedated in order to take stitches. Not Boy 2, some numbing gel and a little shot for good measure.

Halloween and Snow

So the boys wanted to be pirates for Halloween, well actually Boy 1 did and Boy 2 just wants to do what big brother wants lately. I do think Boy 1 will use this power for evil eventually. There is a cartoon on Disney called Jake and the Neverland Pirates, essentially it's Peter Pan.....with no Peter. So Carey again has an idea on how to "make" these costumes for the boys, whips out the sewing machine and presto you now have Jake and Captain Hook.

Though the picture doesn't really show it, the day before Halloween we got 5" of snow. I recall many years of having to wear hats and mittens while trick-or-treating or having to try to put some sort of coat under your costume but never trudging through snow. It only lasted for about 2 days, but it really sours your attitude when you get snow this early. It makes it worse when these two monkeys can't stop talk about how great snow is.

Just Some Catch-Up

This is the first year of playing soccer for Boy 1. I knew soccer was big for the Rec Department, but I didn't realize it was this big. Boy 1 plays on 1 of 14 teams of 5 and 6 year olds, each team has 8-9 players. It's a very tough team to watch.....well because Boy 1's team isn't very good. I'm sure thats why the slogan came along "winning isn't everything." It came from parents who were subjected to watching this. But he likes it!

Carey calls these the varying degrees of cool! Friday was a little on the chilly side and they were each told to put something warm on if they wanted to go outside...........this is what they came up with.