Day Before Valentines Day

Livi and Jake received a package from Grandma and Grandpa for Valentines day.  We let them open it early.

Christmas At Mima and Botow’s

After we opened presents at home (and we unfortunately ran out of time opening Santa’s gifts) we headed over to Mima and Botow’s to open presents and have dinner.  We had a great time and got to see Auntie Stephie and Uncle C.J. as well.

The best pic of the day had to be when Olivia opened the book titled “The Book With No Pictures.”  She was happy to open a book, then sounded the title out, realized it had no pictures.  The look says it all.

Christmas Morning

We had a great Christmas, the kids are really at the perfect age.  It was actually quite chaotic, but I guess that is to be expected.  Olivia got everything she wanted and then some, as did Jake.  Two days after and there is still fighting over toys.  Olivia seems to want Jake’s toys and Jake wants Olivia’s toys, until they notice each other playing with the other’s stuff, then there is arguing.

We started out opening Santa’s gifts in the morning.  Luckily there was no 4:00 wake up for us.  The kids both slept in and we were able to get them up at our leisure.

We took too long opening in the morning, so had to leave the non-Santa stuff for later as we had to get to Mima and Botow’s house.

We had a fun time opening at Mima and Botows and got to see Anutie Stephie and Uncle C. J. as well.  We had a small problem with Ruby, who had to take a trip to the animal emergency hospital on Christmas Day since she was pooping blood.  As of now, all seems to be good with her, she may have just eaten something wrong, as the tested for Parvo, worms and other stuff and all was negative.  She has a great appetite at least and is looking a lot better today.  It may have just run its course.

I’ll post videos and pictures from Mima and Botow’s house tomorrow.

 

 

Jake Singing

I had a great birthday Wednesday, and Jake topped it off with a great rendition of Happy Birthday.  I also caught him singing “Let It Go” today.  Maybe he will be a singer someday.

Tree and Elf

We got our Christmas tree Saturday.  We all know what comes with the tree, the Elf.  Kids were super excited that he was coming.  We set it up Saturday and put lights on it but left the decorating for the next morning.

Kids watched the Elf on the Shelf movie all snuggled up Saturday night in preparation for his arrival.

Elf appeared Sunday morning on the tree and brought new small Christmas Trees for each kid’s rooms as well as jammies for both of them. 

After that, Olivia and Jake sat down and wanted to write lists to Santa.  Lee wrote hers all on her own.

Decorating the tree came next.

Finally, that evening, they got to put on their jammies.  Getting these two to take a good picture together is near impossible.  They never smile or stand still at the same time.

Santa

We went and got our Christmas pictures and Santa pictures last week.  Olivia did good this time with Santa, but it was Jake that had a hard time.  I can only imagine that some day both kids will be excited to sit with Santa.

Parade

Sunday was the Simpsonville Christmas Parade.  This was the first year we went.  It was a nice day luckily, just a little cold.  Kids have a blast.  We were lined up at the end of the parade and stayed for the whole thing so we could wave to Santa.  After the parade, we went to see our friend who was on the Frozen float.  She is part of a new realty agency and they invited anyone to come over to their new location and get pictures with the Frozen princesses.  I think Livi hugged Else at least 4 different times.  Afterwards we went to Wendy’s and had dinner.  Olivia said on the way in that “This was the best day ever.”  Glad we did it.