Christmas Part 1

Since Alan had to work on Christmas Day, the kids and I went to the fire station for lunch. It is always nice to spend time with his co-workers. That is the extent of what we did on Christmas though, since we were waiting for my parents to come to open gifts and things.

So on Friday, my parents got here and we did our traditional Christmas Eve things. We ate Vietnamese (the tradition is Chinese, but we really like a Vietnamese restaurant in town so we did that) Read the Christmas story and open pajamas. We put out cookies and milk also, when Preston woke up the first words out of his mouth was "Did Santa come and eat the cookies!"

I am such a big kid, I could barely sleep! I couldn't wait to see Preston and Gracie's reactions to things. Grace was pretty overwhelmed and Preston loved it, although toward the end he didn't want to open any more gifts.

My parents got me a video camera, so I am obligated to post tons of videos of the kids! We didn't really take many pics but here are some videos from yesterday. I will post the pics later.

Santa Baby

Preston has found a favorite Christmas song, Santa Baby. He loves it and even sings some of the words. I tried to get a video of it this morning but he got distracted.

Gracie is doing well, she says Hi and mama mostly, she does babble allot. She is doing really well with the walking, I think she enjoys the freedom and the ability to get away from her brother. Her hair is getting longer and I enjoy doing it in the morning, although Alan says she looks silly! When I take it out and even after washing it, it sometimes becomes a Mohawk.

We are getting excited for Christmas, we are actually waiting to celebrate until Saturday morning when my parents will be here. I think Preston will really get it this year. He and his sister have already gotten into some of the presents, the even fully unwrapped one the other day when my back was turned!

Walking

I think it is safe to say Gracie is officially walking. She goes for long stretches before she falls, she almost always gets right back up.

(No Mom, she isn't signing anything! She was messing with her bow. )

The Tree is up

Alan had a rare day off yesterday, so we bundled up the still sick kids and went to Home Depot to pick out the tree. I am happy with what we got, it is not to big or small, it may not be full and fluffed like a fake tree or as stick straight but it is good!

We put the tee up when we got home and I now understand the frustrations of my dad from my childhood! We finally resorted to wood blocks to help keep it straight.

It is amazing how uninterested the kids were in the plain tree before they went down for naps, when they woke up it is all the can do not to touch it. Preston even reminded himself out loud while looking at it, "I do not want to go to timeout"



Gracie has sort of graduated to sippy cups, she will drink some of her milk out of them

Random Updates

Preston is still cracking me up all the time. A few days ago we were on our way to get some dinner for Alan,Preston saw Sonic and said: "Look mom it is the french fries house"

He also has started saying prayers at night on his own, sometimes we can not help but laugh at the things he blesses!








In other news, Gracie is semi-waking. She can take 6-7 steps before she quits.