Santa Pic 2012

Wanted to get this one on the blog since I took it off the title page at the top!

A New Year, A New Trick!

The other night, Maxy had a really hard time going to bed.  He started crying and crying and saying "I want out!  I want out!" when we put him to bed.  He had never done anything like this before.  We shut his door and Daddy was putting me to bed.  Mommy was in her room and heard Max's door open and a little voice say "I got out all by self!"  Littly Maxy was so proud of himself.  We tried to put him back in his crib but he refused and kept crawling right out.  Mommy and Daddy didn't know what to do, so they let him lay in their bed and of course, I wanted to join him.  So we were lucky boys because we got to fall asleep in Mommy and Daddy's bed the other night!

 

The next day, Mommy and Daddy decided something must be done if they wanted their bed back!  After the little guy showed us how he climbed out of his crib, we put up his new "big boy bed"!  Now he's really a big boy just like me!

 Now Maxy is safe and won't get hurt trying to crawl out of the crib.  We had fun putting all our animals in the new bed.  Max loves it so far and the transition has gone great!  (Whew!)

Riding Trikes at GG & Poppy's

Check out Maxy's new wheels from GG and Poppy!

Christmas Day!

We were up early Christmas morning ready to open presents!  I think we were done by 7:30am!

 

First we went to check out stockings to see what Santa left!  We helped Murphy open his stocking.  We also noticed that Santa and his reindeers ate all the treats we left for them.

 Finding Santa presents... for Max, there was a note from Santa with train tracks leading to the basement stairs.  When he got down there he found a whole train table with lots of trains set up!

 Maxy loves playing with his choo choos and likes going through the tunnels best!

 Santa brought me this laser tag game I'd really been wanting!  It's awesome and makes really loud noises, which Mommy doesn't like so much.

 Then we headed over to Topeka to GG and Poppy's house and our cousins were there too!  Grayson, me, Connor and Max.

 Taking a break to watch Curious George.

 Great Grandpa Don came from Ellinwood too, which made it extra special!  Uncle Chris, Great Grandpa Don and Mommy.

 Our family with Great Grandpa Don (Daddy had some surgery on his face and was recovering.)

 Maxy got this awesome roadster bike from GG and Poppy!  It's the coolest bike!  I got a shark backpack/suitcase that I take everywhere, we'll have to get some pictures of it.

Great Grandpa Don and his four great grandsons!  What a Merry Christmas we had with our family!

Christmas Eve

 We had a nice quiet Christmas Eve.  We went to Mass and then came home for appetizers.  We also got to open one present.  We opened our present from Murphy!

 He gave us these awesome head lights so we can be explorers!

Ho ho ho

We Wish You a Merry Christmas!