Let There Be Snow

Yesterday, Corin was VERY excited to see the snow falling and kept asking if he could go play in it. I said no, we'd have to wait til tomorrow and of course he DIDN'T forget. So we got bundled up and went outside despite it being FREEZING. We only stayed out for about 45min, but they still had some fun.

They got these hats in there stockings for Christmas. They are a little big and kept falling over their eyes.

 

Corin had quite a lot of fun in the snow.

Declan just walked around in it. He wasn't sure what to think of it.

 

Palm Tree Hair

Shane was giving Declan a bath when he yells down for me to come upstairs to look at Declan's hair (he's learning when a good photo will be and when I want to get one) So I go up and of course Corin wants to come see as well. I look at Declan's hair and Corin comments "Declan your hair looks like a palm tree" Shane and I cracked up laughing! We have a Little People Nativity (or Activity scene as Corin calls it) that they have been loving to play with. There are palm trees that attach to the sides of the stable, so maybe that is where he referenced. The things that he says are SO funny!! And I'm sure when Declan gets to talking he'll as well say funny things.

 Everytime Declan sees the camera he has to make his "cheese" face

Stick A Fork In It

Declan LOVES using his utensils

 He had the fork to use with his eggs, which he dumped off his plate onto his tray. This boy LOVES cheerios and wanted those instead for breakfast (not like he doesn't eat them practically all day long)

An Unusual Snack

One of my favorite things to snack on is frozen peas. I know, it sounds odd, but I love them. So, I had pulled out the peas to make Chicken Fried Rice for dinner and just couldn't help myself by starting to snack on them. Corin asked what I was eating and I told him. He asked if he could try, I said sure but didn't know if he would like them. Of course Declan wanted some after seeing Corin and I eating them so he got some as well. Well.... they loved them as well too. So I gave them a bowl to share. I told them just to sit on the kitchen floor (if I put Declan in a chair at the table he'd be ON the table), but since my kitchen is a bowling alley, I moved them out onto the floor. They did really well not getting any on the floor and Corin thought it was funny that the floor was cold where the bowl and been. Corin called them "Cold Beans"

Oh Christmas Tree

It took us 2 days to put up all of our Christmas decorations and tree. Yes, I do have a lot of Christmas decorations, BUT this year I didn't even put up half of them and my village. Mainly because of Declan. He is a climber and I knew if we put up the village and our couch is usually close to it we would have a Declan Monster in the village. Now its a fun game to play with the blocks (Corin or Daddy build and Declan knocks them down) but NOT with my village. Also our tree base was broken from last year when it feel over so it took Shane a bit to get it fixed and secure so it wouldn't topple over again AND we got started late on Sunday, so it just had to wait.

Day 1: Sun. 12/5

Declan had fun climbing on all of the Christmas decoration tubs.

 

 Shane, the official tree fluffer.  A few years ago, after Christmas when Target had their artifical trees 60% and more off we got smallish one. I am grateful we did, because if not we wouldn't have a tree this year



Day 2: Tues. AM 12/7

The boys decorating the tree which was the most important part (and what they could participate in)

Corin was very adament about putting up the star

 Declan "helped" by getting on the step stool and holding onto Daddy's legs 

No No

 Declan's new favorite word. Yes, and we get the finger wag to go along with it.

Look Mama I'm A Book

What is it with my boys LOVING to pull ALL the books off the shelves in climb INSIDE the shelf!

He's SO proud of himself for emptying out the shelf

YAY!! So much fun to be inside the shelf. Now I know what the books feel like