visiting santa

we went to visit santa a week ago. jack brought his letter to santa telling him what he wants for christmas...

* a gumball machine with gumballs
* a space station and space ship
* a surprise

he wasn't so sure about him at first. he was super excited about going, but once we got there he just didn't want to sit in his lap alone. so i held his hand for a minute and then wiggled free for the picture. as you can tell, he wasn't too worried for very long! charlie of course did great.
the lady taking the picture kept calling him "little sister". i asked johnny afterward if he has ever seen a little girl wearing a truck before?? oh well! he is a pretty baby!!

more chirstmas crafts

i got this idea from none other than pinterest....i love pinterest! it is jack's handprints and fingerprints and charlie's footprints. i was going to let charlie do some lights on the tree too but his little fingers would not cooperate!

jack decorated his 2011 ornament...i am also planning on doing some other type of ornament, but haven't had a chance to do it with him yet.

he was so proud of it. he picked the colors because those are thomas' colors. he even tried to do red stripes :)

also, i love how jack has decorated our tree this year...ornaments on top of ornaments on top of ornaments!!

and i changed my mantle decoration. i decided to only do one line..2 was just a little much. i really like how it turned out. Child is in red glitter so it stands out more :)

jumper

we got out the jumper saturday and charlie loved it!!

my boys

charlie

jack

my boys are for sure brothers, but to me they don't look completely alike (like they did at birth). charlie has smaller ears, bigger cheeks, smaller feet, smaller eyes, bigger upper lip, darker hair, baby soft hair (jack's was coarse), and more. then there is their personalities...so far charlie is a lot more laid back and always happy! jack was always ahead of the game with milestones. he was rolling over at 3.5 months, sitting up at 5, crawling at 6, and walking at 9! charlie is right on track for milestones.

charlie

jack

our mantle

i got this idea from pinterest. i might redo it though. i wish that i would have bought smaller letters. i also might make it one line and just let it say "a Child is born". we'll see. but for now here it is...

we don't put our stockings on the mantle until christmas eve right after before the kids go to bed because jack pulled a stocking hanger on his head when he was 1 and it scared me half to death! those things are way to heavy to fall on a baby's head! so now i don't take any chances.

opinions??

gingerbread house

we decorated our gingerbread house last night. jack was super excited! he wanted to put the chimney on so bad...i guess because we've been talking about santa coming down a chimney! he picked up the gingerbread man and said "run run as fast as you can, can't catch me i'm the gingerbread man!" it was cute! he did a great job and didn't even ask to eat the candy. he tried the icing...which johnny said tasted like playdoh. then at the end we let him have some of the candy...you can't make a gingerbread house and not eat some of the candy!!

charlie somewhat watched us make it. he was more into grabbing stuff off of the table!
(jack)
both of my boys would rather lean over to the side than sit up straight. although i have hope for charlie to like his bumbo...jack did eventually...

front
back

since i was looking back at old photos...

we found out we were coming to UAB when jack was 5 months old and we could (hopefully soon) find out where we are going for fellowship when charlie is 5 months old!

this makes me smile

after watching modern family last night we decided that charlie looks just like cam!! johnny said we should write in to them and say that if they need a baby for a an episode where they look back to cam is a baby we have just the right one! they even have the same dimple!!