Fun Christmas Times

The celebration isn't over yet as we have my family's get-together this weekend. We had a great time in IC on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Bud and I cut out sugar cookies together while B worked and we all went to a candle light church service that night. We came home and opened presents and Bud really likes the cleaning set we gave him (with working vacuum!). He got Buzz Lightyear pjs, slippers, and toy plus Mickey ears from the CT family! Grandma B. & Jim gave him books, a shirt, and a Lego/Thomas & Friends train and station that we put together right away. It's great because he got the circle track Lego/Thomas set from Grandma & Grandpa V! He loves trains and Legos so it's perfect for him. That night we put out milk and a cookie for Santa and in the morning he had put gifts in our stockings! Bud got some books and Harry Potter Every Flavor Beans. Santa even remembered the baby by giving a UI baby board book and pacifier! B worked again Christmas Day so Bud and I got our things together for the trip to G & G V's. We also visited Kathy & Dennis' and spent time with my cousins plus Great Grandma & Grandpa T and G & G T! We had a good time playing songs on the piano and guitar.

We headed up to B's parents that afternoon. B & I made dinner for the family on Monday and everyone really enjoyed it. That evening we opened lots of gifts and Bud got a lot of books! It was good to spend time with Great Grandma V, Aunt Kara, Zach, & Colin. Bud is having fun this week with his grandparents, Aunt Kara, & Colin even though he has a cold. We miss him but are keeping busy! We saw Harry Potter one night, went out to dinner with friends last night, and are going to Kathy & Dennis' again tonight. Hopefully I'll get some pictures onto his site soon.

More next year after our final Christmas celebration! Happy New Year!!
K :o)

Christmas Is Almost Here!

We announced at Thanksgiving that Bud is going to be a big brother in June! He's very excited, as are we, and will randomly mention the baby. A few weeks ago he said to his daddy, You have a baby in your tummy! We laughed and corrected him. He loves hearing the baby's heartbeat and even imitated it using his microphone that is hooked up to a keyboard.

Christmas is so much fun this year now that Bud knows what is going on. We had fun decorating the tree and he did a great job putting ornaments on the lower branches. It also helps when he is misbehaving to threaten no gifts at Christmas if he doesn't behave! That tactic works very well. We got him a Playmobil nativity set and he likes lining the people and animals up around the stable and recognizes Mary, Joseph, & Jesus in any nativity set. He also got an early gift from Grandma and Grandpa T. - a kitchen! He loves to play Emeril and cook but also enjoys doing the dishes. :-) Now when he wants to "help" us with the dishwasher we can just tell him to go play with his own dishwasher. He knows the words to Jingle Bells and his favorite song to hear on the radio is Frosty the Snowman. He even helped build his first snowman at Louise's house last week.

Louise is having a Christmas party for the kids today so Bud took gifts for his friends. It will be fun to hear all about it. Bud loves going to her house and loves his friends. He's starting to play with the kids more now instead of just along side them. He is starting to ask us to come play with him, like he'll say, Come play with my kitchen with me.

Louise has all of next week off but luckily Aunt Kara will be around to watch Bud the three days that we have to work. Colin will be with them those days, too, so Kara will be very busy playing with the two boys! It will be nice for us to have some time to ourselves for a few days. For New Year's we're going to Milwaukee to visit Joe and Becky and celebrate Christmas with my side of the family. We're looking forward to the trip and seeing their new house!

Will write more after Christmas!
K :-D