Blastoff!

As I was getting dinner made tonight, the boys were all up in Ted and Harry's room playing. When we sat down to eat, they told me what they were doing. They were trying to blast off into space. Harry thought they could do it in the closet. They gave it a shot and Ted said he tried to keep Nate out just in case it worked. I'm not sure if he was trying to protect him or just plain didn't want his baby brother tagging along. I found a laundry basket in the closet which I think was supposed to be the rocket ship. I'm guessing some of this is coming from a movie we watched a couple weeks ago called The Astronaut Farmer. Harry has still been trying to get to Dogland too.

Merry Christmas!

I always go back and forth between taking pictures and just enjoying the moment. This year was spent just enjoying the time with the kids. We went to mass yesterday afternoon at 3 pm, came home and the boys opened gifts from us, and then had dinner, and played some more. Ted got out of school last Friday so they felt like they were waiting forever to open gifts. Bob and I didn't finish shopping until Saturday when we dropped the kids off at the church to play while we shopped together. We didn't put any gifts under the tree because the temptation would be too great. I was mostly worried about Nate but I wouldn't be surprised if Harry would have opened something and then claimed to forget. Our tree is in the basement and I realized after I got down there that I forgot to take the camera down. Bob went down and wasn't too worried about pictures. I thought maybe we could get pictures in the morning while they were opening gifts from Santa.

Ted and Harry got up first this morning. They checked things out in the basement and then came upstairs to tell us it was the best Christmas ever. Ted and Harry each had a soccer ball under the tree from Santa and Nate got a sled. They also had stockings filled with goodies and a couple more presents under the tree each. Nate got up and I heard them say that they brought Nate's sled up to the main floor. As I was coming out of the bedroom, Nate was opening one of his gifts too so I almost missed it. We decided to let Bob sleep and see what Santa brought later. We spent the day playing with the new toys. Ted and Harry also each got a new game. Harry got a WordWorld matching game and Ted got travel sized Battleship. Both seem to be big hits with them.

Longest day ever for kids

The boys have been wanting to open presents for days now so I knew I had to be prepared this morning. I printed off a Christmas codeword puzzle for Ted and a couple coloring sheets. We also had a gingerbread train kit that I had bought. The gingerbread train wasn't too bad to put together. The biggest challenge was keeping Nate off the table when my hands were busy putting the train together. Nate just wanted to help and he actually did better than I expected when it was time to put the candy on. He put the pieces on one at a time and was gentle with it. The train worked well for us to keep the kids busy before we went to lunch and then church.

1st Haircut

Bob had been cutting Ted and Harry's hair since they were little. Bob was cutting Ted's hair today and Nate went in and decided it was time to get his hair cut too. He did really well and stayed still enough for Bob. He didn't have a lot of hair yet but maybe this will help it grow back thicker. You can see Harry trying to decide which length he was going with this time.