Just Us

We opened gifts at home together one afternoon to celebrate Christmas as a family and the boys were happy. Augustine got Legos, Lewis got a water wall, and Elias got a new car seat. The boys gave each other small gifts too. Augustine chose to give his brothers the matching shirts they are wearing.        

We have a lot of Christmas celebrations each year, so here we go...

Couple Things...

 

I just want to remember when Elias figured out how to crawl into the shelf. I raised the shelf above him so he as more room now.  

Augustine decided to teach a class at Daddy's work. It was (clearly) well attended.  Augustine's school does a $5 gift exchange in class (Why?! Why?!) and he actually got some cool little treasures. This was a dig for gold thing and inside is a rock. Supposedly one in 24 have real gold. Mmmm...

From Christmases Long Ago...

 A: Mom, how do you turn this thing on?

Me: it's a snow globe. 

A: so does it have a switch?

Me: shake it. *face palm*

Christmas Programs 2016

 

Lewis' class had a lovely party complete with two songs, a slideshow of photos of the preschoolers preparing for Christmas together, a homemade gift for moms & dads, and - of course - a cookie at 1045am.  

Augustine's school had a Christmas Singalong and it was actually a lot of fun! When else do we all just sit down and sing some songs together?! Each class leads a song. KA lead Jingle Bells. Lewis sat very still and quiet and LOVED every minute of it. Elias clapped for a lot of the songs.  

Keeping Busy

 

Logan worked all weekend last weekend and it was terrible weather too. We didn't leave the house for a looooong time. Pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes and bacon for a lazy Saturday morning breakfast. We had some plans on Saturday that were all cancelled so by mid afternoon we were all going a little stir crazy.  

The big boys played really well all day while Elias was super fussy.  

When Elias finally took a decent nap that wasn't on my lap, I played Duplos with the big boys. We had a town Christmas tree lighting,

a town football game, 

and a town Christmas dinner.   

Lewis worked on his color grading, which he loves.  

Elias worked on chewing on anything wooden, including my dining room table so I used that as a solid excuse to finally buy a Christmas table cloth. He can't make teeth marks on the table now.  

When Logan finally got home we went on a mall walk to get the heck out of the house. We also stayed a night at the G&G B&B, which was very fun as always!

Baby Sam

 

Lewis got this baby last year as we prepared for Elias to join our family. Baby Sam was well loved by Lewis, but once the real baby arrived Sam was forgotten.  

Elias has recently discovered baby Sam and loves to play with him.  

The magnetic binki, pointing to all the parts of the face, pulling the hair on his head...it's all so fun!

Blankie/Binki

 

He loves his blankie. He loved being swaddled in them when he was new, he loves nursing with it close by, he loves sleeping with it now that he's too big to be swaddled (thanks for the smaller lovey size Grandma Susan!), he loves finding them randomly throughout the house and has to stop and burry his face in them, he loves to hold onto them when he rides in the car, he loves to smell them when he is sad, he loves to have them in his lap when he eats at the table, and he even  bites them when he's feeling wild. We just never go anywhere without the blankie.  

It's a magic combo...the binki/blankie.