other christmas break events

i got to test out my new stroller that we got for christmas from my parents and johnny's mom. i LOVE it! it is a joovy. it rides so smooth and jack really likes it...in fact he was jealous of clara testing it out yesterday!

jack loves his scooter and is so good at riding it. he only had one wipe out

i gave johnny a pizza stone

we went to zoolight safari again with grandma. it wasn't as crowded so we really got to see the lights.

jack has loved the box from the stroller. he says that it is his boat. we got out the markers he got from santa and decorated his boat. i drew a steering wheel and jack drew a horn...here he is honking his horn

oh my word!

this makes me smile :) i love my boys!

charlie is practicing sitting up

clara came over before we left for columbus and the kids pretended to be aliens :)

christmas day

we woke up around 7:30. luckily jack is not at the age where he can't sleep because he is too excited. i bet we will be there next year though! so when he woke up we told him that we needed to go to the den to see what santa brought him. (charlie was still asleep)

this is what santa left for the boys...
jack's voice was as.high.pitched.as.it.goes excited!

checking out his gumball machine

testing out the scooter

flying his space shuttle

my boys playing with their toys from santa

around 10:00 grandma came over for breakfast casserole and cinnamon rolls.
jimmy came over for lunch around 12:30...johnny made a sweet potato soup

we gave him cars 2, the lion king, and thomas bath toys

i am so thankful that johnny's mom took this picture!

johnny got me a mug with the boys' picture on it and a necklace

johnny cooked a yummy roasted chicken dinner!

jack loves his new bubbles and toys

jack has been telling everybody that comes over that we had to wait until christmas to eat the gingerbread house...christmas came and he finally got to eat it...not sure how much he actually liked it though because he didn't eat that much

too funny!

when trying to teach jack about giving me his attention when i am talking to him...
i said, "jack give me your attention. that means to look at momma and stop what you are doing and listen". then jack said, "mom, can i have my attention back?"

christmas eve

our christmas eve celebration started with going to our church's christmas eve service. it was adorable! the kids got to dress up as people or animals from the christmas story. then they got to walk up to the nativity during their part of the story.
jack chose to be a king!

after church we went to grandma's house to eat chinese dinner and open gifts. we started drawing names last year with jimmy, mary, darryl, sonny, us, and grandma. it works out pretty well and everybody gets to give a "bigger" present...

sonny gave jack one of his really nice trains. jack won't really get it until he is older and more responsible.

jack opening the gift of baby jesus!

this year we got to skype with mary, darryl and molly. it was a lot of fun!


then we came home and let jack set out cookies and milk for santa and sprinkle the reindeer food on the lawn for the deer.

christmas in columbus

we went to columbus from the 21st-24th. we had a lot of fun!

my mom is beautiful!!

jack and frank played well together. they are so different though...the minute jack walks into mimi and papa's house he is dumping out every toy bin in the playroom. frank on the other hand could care less. he would be perfectly happy playing with just the train track and one train the whole time. they both love thomas the train and gummies!

johnny's first time wearing the ergo

so far mamie and charlie are pretty similar :) mamie is just plain adorable and so tiny! it is funny the different body types of a boy and a girl. you can just tell she is a girl by her frame and that charlie is a boy by his.

how cute is our crew??

i wonder what these 2 were talking about?!


we had to share a room with jack and charlie...and pete. i wish we had a picture of how my parents set up our room. it actually worked out fine, but i am so thankful that my boys have their own room at our house. a couple of times we caught jack either trying to get something out of charlie's crib or putting something in his crib.

when we were all packing up our stuff that was ALL over my parents house jack and frank were playing together a little too well...jack was feeding frank a poisonous plant!! luckily it is more poisonous to animals than humans and we don't think that he actually swallowed any of the leaf. crazy boys!

it was a lot of fun to all be together!!

flight museum with daddy

johnny had the whole week off before christmas! it was wonderful! we wanted to show him the flight museum since he hadn't been with us yet. jack was super excited about showing him everything :)

i can't wait for the day that my boys play together :)