Christmas is Coming!

Christmas is getting closer and we're all very excited at our house.  It's extra fun this year now that K-man is getting older.  He's getting really excited.  There is a video you can personalize online so that Santa talks to your child.  K-man gets so excited and he is asking to talk to Santa everyday.  He answers all of Santa's questions and everything... it's adorable.  Bear doesn't quite get the whole Christmas thing yet, but he definitely senses K's enthusiasm.

Today we did some last minute Christmas shopping and had the kids buy each other gifts to wrap.  K-man picked a fun bathtub car for Bear and Bear picked a fun Nerf bow and arrow for K-man.  K-man also picked something for me.  Amy says that it's an interesting choice so I'm excited to see what it is come Christmas morning.

Other than getting ready for Christmas things have been fairly routine around here.  Bear is learning more words every day which is really fun.  He is getting much better at communicating.  K-man has been obsessed lately with wearing pajamas.  When he's at home he only wants to wear pajamas, so when we leave the house he has to change.  Then when we get home he runs to his room to change back into pajamas.  We're not really sure why he loves his pjs so much, but it's fun to see.  Lately he has even been wearing multiple pairs of his pajamas at the same time.  We took a picture of him with four pairs on.  You can see that he is pretty proud of himself :)  We had him hold up four fingers to represent how many pajamas he was wearing.

Just the other day Amy went upstairs to see what K-man and Bear had been up to.  It turns out that K was making a bed of books for Bear.  Initially Bear thought it was fun, but after a few minutes he decided that he didn't like his new bed too much.  It's always interesting to watch them play together.  It makes me think of a quote I saw recently - "Because I have a brother, I will always have a friend".

Snow and Santa on the Coast!

Earlier this week it snowed in our town!  Since we live in a coastal climate it hardly ever snows here.  Instead it usually rains during the winter.  It was a lot of fun, and the kids loved it.  Amy and Mike both grew up with snowy winters and we have fond memories of playing in the snow so we tried to make sure the kids got to experience how fun the snow can be.


Amy shoveled some snow into a little path on our lawn so the kids could go sledding.  K-Man absolutely loved sledding and it was the first thing he asked to do when he woke up in the mornings.  Bear hasn't been a huge fan of the sledding, but he likes going outside.

In other exciting news, we got to go see Santa Claus.  He was visiting during the local Festival of Trees event that Mike's work puts on.  K-Man was thrilled and he was totally prepared.  He asked Santa for a blue soccer ball.  Bear was not fond of Santa.  We have a similar picture of K-Man crying on Santa's lap when he was Bear's age, so we weren't surprised.

Anyway, the last few weeks have been a lot of fun and we're getting excited for Christmas.  The boys are getting into the Christmas spirit and have been watching some Christmas classics.  Only two more weeks to go!