Christmas and Snowflakes

We had such a fun, exciting and relaxing Christmas. We stayed at home for the holiday, except we did spend Christmas afternoon with Chad's grandparents. We had our own talent show. Kayden built a cup tower, Boston taught us a kung fu move with sound effects, I played the piano and Chad and McCoy did 'circus baby'. We dressed up and did the nativity together. We gave the boys new pajamas and ornaments. After putting McCoy to bed, the boys made cookies for Santa and then put them out for him and excitedly went to bed. The magic was alive in all of them still and as Christmas drew closer and closer, even Kayden's skeptical thoughts were gone.
(In their new pjs with new ornaments: Boston with Spiderman, McCoy with baby's 1st Christmas and Kayden with a dragon.)

Santa did come this year again bringing dino bones, Jazz tickets and a stand-up dancing toy. He filled the oldest boys stockings with light sabers as well, which Boston has been constantly carrying around ever since. The day after Christmas, we stayed in our pjs all day just spending time with each other and having fun.

Besides our Christmas celebrations, we have also tried to fill up our time off of school with things to do. We've been playing in the snow, sledding with cousins, playing lots of card and board games, getting good use of all the new toys and one day we made snow flakes. Boston enjoyed it for about 10 minutes, but Kayden took it to new levels and was cutting snow flakes for about 4 hours - not lying!! Here's some of his final product. We displayed them on the couch for a picture and then decided to hang them in the playroom for the winter.