Gingerbread Village

We finally got our gingerbread houses done. Macen loved working on them. He's even getting good with icing in the bag. It's always amazing to see his mind at work and see what he comes up with. He did bail on me by the time we started the big house. I also didn't have enough green mints to do the other side so we ended up with a two faced gingerbread house. Macen thought it was cool regardless.

Merry Christmas

Santa found the boys and I think they were thrilled with their gifts.

 

 

This is how our pictures went. Maddox wanted nothing to do with sitting still and wanted everything to do with chocolate. We persuaded him to lay down the m&m's in exchange for presents, lol.

 

Pictures still didn't get any better here. Haha!

The boys spent the day playing with their new toys and Macen pretty patiently waiting for us to start building the Star Wars and Ninjago Legos he got.

Opening Presents from Each Other

Macen loved his Transformers Rescue Bot Headquarters while Maddox got a Jake and the Neverland Pirates toy. The boys got me a 5lb chocolate! Good thing everyone in the house likes chocolate or it would take a long while for that bar to disappear. (Yes, even as much as I like chocolate). James got a Cowboys robot. Macen thought it was awesome too!

Christmas Cookies

James made sugar cookies and the boys helped decorate them. I'm pretty sure we have more sprinkles than anything on majority of the cookies, lol. They even made a couple of TIE Fighters, Millennium Falcon and an X Wing cookies. The Millennium Falcon and X Wing was left for Santa to eat.

Jingles has left the building

 

The boys came down with the flu for the 2nd time in less than 2 weeks. So Jingles left them a message in M&M's.

He left the boys pjs and slippers this morning and told them he was headed back to the North Pole to help Santa.

Maddox's First Snow

Maddox wasn't sure what to think of the snow at first. He did the same thing as he did with the sand - pull his legs up, refusing to stand in as we are lowering him to the ground. After a couple of tries he was fine with it. I think he even wanted to stay out in when Macen was ready to go inside. It's just my luck, he's okay with the snow but not the sand. Haha!

 

Both boys were sick yesterday so I am not sure Macen was even aware it had snowed. But once he had some energy today, he kept asking to go play in the snow. He had high hopes to build a snowman and make snow balls but the snow just wasn't sticking together. He settled for a snow angel and then was ready to go in.

17 Months

He LOVES Macen bike - has for months now. This is the first time he put the helmet on though and then climbed on the bike. He fully expects to be pushed around if he climbs on it.

 

Maddox putting a car up and down his pants. He didn't think it was so funny the first time and he couldn't get it out. Once I started laughing at him, he thought it was funny enough to do over and over.

Working on his fine motor skills.

 

Our silly little guy is keeping us entertained. He is saying new words like cool and stuck. And "mmmm" is spoken anytime a yummy food is presented. Maddox nearly has walking up and down stairs one foot/leg at a time mastered especially if it's just a few steps. He is as busy as ever and we love watching him go, go, go.