Monday, December 9, 2013

Its Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas....

Watching us put up the Christmas Tree and trying to figure out what the big deal is

Daddy and Luke hanging the lights

Time for a break

I just want to eat that big white ball!

Aiden playing UNO with Finn

What did you just put in my mouth?  Finn tried his first bit of solid food this week.  He had a few bites of sweet potatoes and some oatmeal baby cereal.  Overall, it was a success and the interest was definitely there.  He opened his mouth just like he knew what he was doing.  

I am not so sure about that stuff

Hey, wait...I Like it!!!

Santa Baby

Decorating the tree

More Decorating

Working on the rink

Liam and Daddy shoveling the rink

As with many parts of the United States, winter arrived the week after Thanksgiving.  It has been COLD, very COLD here.  With highs barely reaching zero, we have been trying to get ready for winter.  We don't usually have temps this cold until at least mid January and it usually only lasts for a few weeks.  Not this year.....

We worked on getting the Christmas tree up this week.  I say "we worked on it" because we assembled one day, hung lights another day, and did ornaments the next.  It takes awhile when you have so many "helpers."  To be fair, we also hung stockings and other decorations so it wasn't just the tree we were working on.

For the first time ever, we are putting the tree up in the play room.  There really isn't a great space for the tree downstairs and the play room is really the biggest room in the house so opening gifts on Christmas Day will be much easier with more space.  We have never had the tree upstairs in the bonus room for obvious reasons, but the boys have been warned about leaving the tree alone so we will see how it goes.  We also happened to keep all the valuable and highly breakable ornaments in the box this year (just in case, of course).  As we were hanging ornaments this year, the boys were competing with each other over who had the most breakable ornament to hang.  Seems like they are always competing about something, but that one was kind of odd to John and I.

The ice rink and I have a love/hate relationship right now.  At the busiest time of our year, it is taking a lot of time on the weekends to manage.  Overall, I am hopeful it will pay back by spending some of the boy's energy and giving us a fun outdoor activity to do.  For now, we have had a few small setbacks and we are waiting until the ice is ready.  Despite the extreme cold, we still had more water to fill the rink and then make sure it was level and somewhat smooth.  

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