Christmas Eve

Humbugs.

Keeping Dallin out of the Christmas presents- fail.

Meeting Santa

Yes, It's real.

Christmas 2009

Operation: NO SANTA was a complete success.

I have some issues with Santa:

1) MAMA does all the work finding the perfect gifts for her children and "Santa" gets all the credit!

2) I don't like the idea of my kids making "lists" for Santa. I want the emphasis to be more on giving gifts instead of "I want this, this and this".

The only reason I can think of to have kids believe in Santa is so mom can

get them to behave for the entire month of December.

A couple of days before Christmas we were in the grocery store and someone asked Weston who was coming to his house and bringing lots of presents and Weston said "GRANDMA AND GRANDPA"!!!

Grandpa is the exception to the "no santa" rule. He dresses like Santa every year and we got a picture of the boys with him.

I got Weston and Dallin the Little People Nativity early in the season and he has been playing with it every day. (Dallin just likes to chew on it.) He acts out everything including having the wise men ask "Can I see the baby?" It is so precious to me.

Christmas morning Weston asked to have the traditional waffles with cinnamon ice cream before opening presents (he regretted this later and I don't think we will be so lucky next year.)

One special memory for me was when Weston opened his present from Dallin (the movie"Up") and he gave Dallin a big hug. We got a good picture of it.

Grandpa John and Grandma Pat drove up and stayed with us for Christmas. They had a ball with the kids.

Weston got toys from "Cars", some Thomas the Train and lots of Curious George. He got some Little People to go with the sets he already had. He also got the LeapFrog Tag reading system and some books. Weston and Dallin got a roller coaster from Auntie Erin. Dallin got some PJs, a little onesie that said "I'm the little brother", lots of sign language books and DVDs and a Noah's ark playset.

This was our first Christmas spent at home. I loved the stress-free holiday with no worries about travel. I enjoyed being home so much, I may never travel for Christmas again!

Week of Funnies

Last week Weston picked up an apple he wanted to eat and then asked me to get him a knife.

Weston just opened up the front door and announced "I'll be right back"!

Watching "Lady and the Tramp", Weston keeps saying, "That's not nice, kitty! That's not nice, kitty" during the Siamese cat scene.

ADD

Weston has been pushing my buttons like never before over the last few days. I decided to have a little chat with him to explain why mommy says no and why he needs to listen to mommy.

Mommy: Weston, you need to listen to mommy when she tells you not to do something. Remember today when mommy told you not to play in the garden? Mommy told you not to play because she doesn't want you to get hurt. Some of the plants have pointy things on them and they could give you a big ouchie. You need to listen to mommy so you can be safe. Okay?

Weston: and then we can ring the doorbell.

Mommy: *blink blink* huh? sigh....

Something tells me I'm not getting through to him. I'll just prepare myself for more of the same tomorrow.

Halloween Festivities 09

We visited a farm for Halloween day with Weston's BFF, Nicole.

Went through a corn maze.

Played on the tractors.

Rode on the cow train and the hay ride.

Weston went through the mini hay maze.
Had a duck race.













Did some trick or treating and ate candy! Phew!

Updates: unloading my camera

Got some great new Westonisms:

Recently when putting Weston down for his nap he asked "What's to-later, mama?" (get it? as opposed to "tomorrow")

Weston's new favorite expression: WHAT THE HECK!?! As in "What the HECK is going on in here?" and "What the HECK is Dallin doing, mama?" With the exception of this new "heck" phase, I am really enjoying listening to him learn to speak. Some of the things he says just crack us up.

Weston is very observant of feelings when he watches a movie. When it gets to the dramatic scene in the movie (i.e. when the dogs from Lady and the Tramp are in the pound or when Bolt and Mittens had a fight) Weston says in his saddest voice "Are they sad, mama?"

I took some fun pictures of Weston recently. I loved that he put his legos together perfectly on the floor. As for the chairs, Weston lined up all the dining room chairs randomly one night and said "Look Mama, it's a BUS!" :)

Dallin:

Dallin has started rolling over. He does a good job sitting up for a while on his own. He giggles and a lot of time cackles at something that he finds hilarious. He is such a happy baby. I uploaded a few pictures of him having his first taste of rice cereal- he was not a fan. We tried putting him in the tub with Weston, but realized it was a little too soon.