Starting with the day before Christmas Eve....
While Garrett was napping, I let Jackson make gingerbread cookies to leave out for Santa. Garrett probably would have enjoyed using the cookie cutter as well, but sometimes Jackson needs that one on one time with me and the thought of Garrett with flour and a rolling pin scares me a little.....
Jackson and I baked them and later that evening, the 4 of us decorated them.
After his attention span with making cookies came to an end, he decided he would pretend to be Santa and ride on his sleigh (the bar stool) while calling out the names of the reindeer. I had no idea he knew all their names until this moment. I don't think I even know all their names....
We spent the morning of Christmas Eve at home. We went to the 2:00 church service with Randy, Dianne, and Blair and then spent the rest of the evening at their house. Both Shelly and Carissa's in-laws live out of town, so this year they were not home for Christmas. We will have Christmas with the whole family next week.
Christmas morning....
The letter from Santa and the plate of cookies after Santa got a hold of them.
{Did you know that the Santa that visited our house didn't get the "memo" that you are supposed to leave a letter for the children after you eat their cookies? Mrs. Claus had to tell him about the letter! Santa also got in trouble for the cookies. He thought he needed to eat every cookie on the plate and make the plate look clean and crumb free. After Mrs. Claus refilled his plate with cookies, he finally got it right. Mrs. Claus was a little bossy this year since a certain 3 year old asks a lot of questions.....}
Presents left by Santa....notice a gingerbread man must have fallen out of his pocket while he was going back up the chimney.
For the whole month of December I have been trying to figure out how to handle Christmas morning. Last year Jackson and Garrett were BOTH in cribs and couldn't roam the house in the middle of the night, this year however....they BOTH have freedom.
We decided that we would let them sleep with us so that they would wake us before roaming the house.
We have a king size bed, but wow - they could care less if they knock Mommy off the bed. For some reason, Aaron sleeps just as comfortably as they do, but I am balancing on the edge of the bed to keep from falling off.
At this point of the morning, Garrett thought that the whole Christmas morning thing was over rated. He wanted to go back to bed.
Jackson finally getting his "toy wee-weeder (weed eater), toy blow, and toy chainsaw." He also had a "toy bike" on his list, however Santa must have known that Jackson's BamBam and PawPaw were getting him a bike, so Santa didn't bring him one. After presents were opened and things had settled down, I asked Jackson "What was your favorite gift from Santa?" He said "My toy wee-weeder, my toy blower, my toy chain saw,................does Santa not know how to make a bike?" :)
2 comments:
Loved all the pictures! Does Jackson not take naps anymore? Austin still sleeps 3 hours every afternoon!
We put baby gates in the door of their room and at the end of the hall last year so they couldn't get out before we did! They know how to climb over but I knew I'd hear them and that they usually yell for us first!
Too cute!! Love it!
I don't think I know all the reindeer names either, haha!!
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